![]() International Youth prize and Grand Prix, Moscow Film Festival 1977 Storm Boy did well on the international festival circuit: Storm Boy did however win the Jedda Award sponsored by the Australian National Travel Association (Producer: Matt Carroll, director: Henri Safran), an award "category" that didn't feature in later AFI Awards. There was also a significant split in the jury that year, with the jury divided as to whether to give the jury prize to Tom Cowan's pseudo-feminist convict-based Journey Among Women, or to Storm Boy. The compromise reached was to give the Jury Prize to Storm Boy, and two special awards for creativity to Journey Among Women and Love Letters From Teralba Road. There was some surprise and controversy arising from the film winning "best picture" but not a single other category, and complaints from those associated with Don's Party because of it winning so many categories, but not "best picture. Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor sponsored by Hoyts Theatres (David Gulpilil) (John Meillon won for The Fourth Wish) Nominated, Best Achievement in Costume Design (Helen Dyson) (Judith Dormsan won for The Picture Show Man) Nominated, Best Achievement in Art Direction (David Copping) (David Copping beat himself by winning for The Picture Show Man) Nominated, Best Original Music Score (Michael Carlos) (Peter Best won for The Picture Show Man) Nominated, Best Achievement in Sound Editing (Bob Cogger) (Bill Anderson won for Don's Party) Nominated, Best Achievement in Cinematography sponsored by Kodak (Australasia) (Geoff Burton) (Russell Boyd won for Break of Day) Nominated, Best Screenplay sponsored by the Greater Union Organisation (this category then included Original and Adapted) (Sonia Borg) (David Williamson won for Don's Party) Nominated, Best Achievement in Directing sponsored by Village Theatres (Henri Safran) (Bruce Beresford won for Don's Party) ![]() Winner, Best Film of the Year sponsored by the Australian Film Commission and Cinema International Corporation (Matt Carroll) Adult material was preferred by the voters, with one crucial and major exception: The film did acceptable business at the 1977 Australian Film Institute Awards with a couple of key wins, but it received many more nominations than gongs. ![]() The SAFC would later claim the film had sold to over 100 countries. It was the first Australian film to attract a major Japanese distributor (and to be seen by the Emperor in a private screening).īy January 1979 producer Matt Carroll was claiming the film had sold in 23 countries and returned $1.2 million to the SAFC. In the first eight months of its run in Adelaide, the film grossed a box office record of $300,000.Īs well as the strong domestic returns, the film also achieved widespread international interest and sales, and was even given a screening at the White House in the United States "at the request of President Jimmy Carter" (the film was also "requested for viewing" on the Royal yacht Brittania). It was listed in the July 1984 Cinema Papers, using CPI corrected data from Variety, as number 12 in the then all-time top twenty-two Australian films, with a gross film rental of A$1,725,789. Off air time: 1'24"57 (no music overhang)īox office: According to the Film Victoria report on Australian box office, the film achieved a domestic gross of A$2,645,000, equivalent to $13,674,650 in A$ 2009. Running time: 87 mins ( Oxford Australian Film ), 1'25"38 ( NSFA )ĭVD time: 1'25"05 (including end music overhang) ![]() Locations: exteriors near Goolwa, a town opposite the head of the Coorong (a saltwater inlet a hundred miles long on the South Australian coast), Port Elliott Primary School and Port Noarlunga, and interiors at the SAFC studio in a converted picture theatre, the old Star, the Parade, Norwood S.A.įilmed: shooting began May 1976, four week six day week schedule.Īustralian distributor: SAFC/Roadshow/VillageĪustralian release: 19th November 1976 Fair Lady Theatre Adelaide, and then to other states mid-1977. $260,000 ( ASO) $300,000 ( Cinema Papers' production report, and the figure in David Stratton's The Last New Wave) Production company: South Australian Film Corporationīudget: A$320,000, jointly from the South Australian Film Corporation, the federal government investment body the Australian Film Commission and the Seven television network ( Oxford Australian Film).
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