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Film Details - Millennium Pictures ; Gibson Group , 1995
Producers:
Ian Fairweather, Posie Graeme-Evans, and Dorothee Pinfold (executive producers). Andrew Blaxland and Dave Gibson (producers).
Production Companies:
Millennium Pictures (Australia) and Gibson Group (New Zealand).
Finance Organisations:
Australian Film Finance Corporation and New Zealand On Air.
Director of Photography:
Richard Bluck.
Editors:
Vicki Ambrose and Simon James.
Production Designers:
Kevin Leonard Jones.
Music:
Chris Harriott.
Cast:
Petra Yared (Jo Tiegan), Michala Banas (Louise Iredale), Nicholas Hooper (Nicholas Romanov), Judy McIntosh (Catherine Guthrie), Peter Bensley (Andrew Tiegan), Gerald Bryan (Joshua Iredale), Michele Amas (Primrose Iredale), James Ashcroft (Tama Williams), Jeffrey Walker (Royce Tiegan), Jason Gascoigne (Titus Iredale), Nicholas Hammond (Sir Ivor Creevey-Thorne), Bernard Kearns (The Old Man), Liza Jones (Jade Coigley), and Stephen Butterworth (Bellamy Frid).
Release Dates:
30 September 1995.
Awards:
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New Zealand Film and Television Awards: Best Children's Program, 1996
New Zealand Film and Television Awards: Best Juvenile Perfomance (Michala Banas), 1996 (nomination)
World Television Festival (Houston): Gold
Australian Film Institute Awards: Best New Talent (Petra Jared), 1996.
Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Children's Program, 1996 (nomination)
Prix Jeunesse International Festival (Munich): Finalist
Aurealis Award: Best Young Adult Novel (for Hilary Bell's novelisation)
Notes:
A number of writers are credited with 'story' in the closing credits of each episode, so the list of episodes below lists only the author who is credited with 'written by' in the opening credits of the relevant episode.
List of episodes:
1.1 Writer: Greg Haddrick
1.2 Writer: Ray Harding
1.3 Writer: Ray Harding
1.4 Writer: Katherine Thomson
1.5 Writer: Katherine Thomson
1.6 Writer: Hilary Bell
1.7 Writer: Hilary Bell
1.8 Writer: Ray Harding
1.9 Writer: Ray Harding
1.10 Writer: Alister Webb
1.11 Writer: Alister Webb
1.12 Writer: Greg Millin
1.13 Writer: Greg Millin
1.14 Writer: Greg Haddrick
1.15 Writer: Ray Harding
1.16 Writer: Tony Morphett
1.17 Writer: Tony Morphett
1.18 Writer: Tony Morphett
1.19 Writer: Greg Haddrick
1.20 Writer: Greg Haddrick
Settings:
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cNew Zealand,cPacific Region,
- 1919
- 1995
