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form y separately published work icon Waltzing Matilda single work   film/TV   romance  
Alternative title: Banjo and Matilda
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Waltzing Matilda
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'In 1895, with the country in turmoil a young city poet and journalist travels to a remote sheep station to track down a political agitator. When the clashes between union shearers and landowners turn to violence, a man is found dead in a billabong. Was it suicide or murder? A dramatisation of the extraordinary true story of Banjo Paterson and Waltzing Matilda.' (Source: Screen Australia website)

Notes

  • Lucky Country Productions changed the name of the film from Banjo & Matilda to Waltzing Matilda. The information was posted on the production company's website on 4 November 2013:

    'We have decided to change the name of BANJO & MATILDA, to WALTZING MATILDA. The film is fundamentally about the writing of that song and deserves to be known as that. We have begun offering the role to leading male actors who we believe can help us drive the movie to an international audience. We fully believe that a film of this scale -with a 12 million dollar budget – requires an A-list marquee name to ‘drive it’ to the market. Bill has just returned from visiting film sales agents in Hollywood, NYC and London in the last month. We have received an overwhelmingly positive response to the concept...'

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Related Works

y separately published work icon Waltzing Matilda : Carrying a Swag Waltzing Matilda i "Oh! there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,", A. B. Paterson , 1895 (Manuscript version)x401512 Z1233834 1895 single work poetry
— Appears in: Saltbush Bill, J. P., and Other Verses 1917; (p. 23-24) Salt , 27 April vol. 3 no. 4 1942; (p. 8-9) Australian Bush Songs and Ballads 1944; (p. 77-78) The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry 1956; (p. 145) The Penguin Australian Song Book 1964; (p. 160-161) Old Australian Ballads : An Anthology 1967; (p. 45)
— Appears in: Australia Antologio 1988; (p. 404-406)
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Works about this Work

Adelaide Film Scene Produces the Goods 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 December 2015; (p. 13)
Once a Jolly Swagman Cast a Film in North Queensland 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 November 2014; (p. 13)
Only a Homegrown Star Could Play Our Banjo Note Perfect, Film Stalwart Says James Wigney , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 October 2013; (p. 12)
Who's a Jolly Swagman? Fiona Purdon , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 October 2013; (p. 10)
Guess Who Will Come A-Waltzing Matilda on the Silver Screen Fiona Purdon , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25-26 May 2013; (p. 30-31)
Bruce Waltzes Matilda Tristan Swanwick , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 May 2012; (p. 21)
Duelling for Banjo Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 May 2012; (p. 3)
Bid to Keep Banjo Film at Winton Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 May 2012; (p. 6)
Mining Bosses Back Winton for Banjo Film Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 May 2012; (p. 7)
Banjo Movie Spot 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 June 2012; (p. 12)
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Last amended 8 Jan 2016 13:12:30
Morgan O'Neill
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