Storm Boy (1976 film)

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Storm Boy (1976 film) is an Australian family drama based on Colin Thiele’s novel, following a lonely boy and his pelican in the Coorong wetlands and regarded as a classic of Australian cinema.

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instanceOf film
authorOfSourceWork Colin Thiele
awardReceived AFI Award for Best Direction
AFI Award for Best Film
AFI Award for Best Screenplay
basedOn Storm Boy (novel)
linked to: Storm Boy
cinematographyBy Geoff Burton
countryOfOrigin Australia
director Henri Safran
distributor Roadshow Film Distributors
distributorRegion Australia
editor G. Turney-Smith
featuresAnimal pelican
filmingLocation Coorong, South Australia
linked to: Coorong region
genre coming-of-age film
family drama
hasRemake Storm Boy (2019 film)
linked to: Storm Boy
hasTelevisionAdaptation Storm Boy (1976 TV series)
linked to: Storm Boy
mainCharacter Fingerbone Bill
Hide-Away Tom
Mike "Storm Boy" Kingsley
musicBy Michael Carlos
narrativeFocus relationship between a lonely boy and a pelican
notablePelicanCharacter Mr Percival
originalLanguage English
partOf Australian New Wave cinema
portraysTheme Aboriginal culture
environmental conservation
friendship between boy and animal
isolation
producer Matt Carroll
productionCompany South Australian Film Corporation
recognizedAs classic of Australian cinema
releaseDate 1976-07-01
releaseYear 1976
runtimeMinutes 88
screenwriter Sonia Borg
setInEnvironment coastal wetlands
setInRegion South Australia
setting Coorong, South Australia
linked to: Coorong region
starredActor David Gulpilil
Greg Rowe
Judy Dick
Peter Cummins
targetAudience family

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Geoff Burton notableWork Storm Boy (1976 film)