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Film Details - 1988
Producers:
Patricia Edgar (executive producer).
Jill Robb (producer).
Production Companies:
Australian Children's Television Foundation.
Finance Organisations:
The Australian Film Commission, Department of Health & Community Services of the N.T. Government, and the Australian Bicentennial Authority.
According to Patricia Edgar's memoirs (Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television, Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2006), 'I began work on its [Touch the Sun's] financing in 1986, with production scheduled for 1987, and the series to be screened in 1988. The budget was in excess of $7.5 million' (p.184).
Director of Photography:
Jamie Doolan.
Editors:
Edward McQueen-Mason.
Production Designers:
Sally Shepherd.
Music:
Paul Schutze.
Cast:
Including John Jarratt (Jack), Madeleine Blackwell (Sue), Bennendine Woods (Alice), Donald Dale (Mick), Tommy Lewis (Roy), Justine Saunders (Elva), Bernadette Hudson (Kath), and Mai Nguyen (Mai).
Release Dates:
10 April 1988 (Australia).
Location:
- Filmed in and around Darwin.
