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Tasmania

Tasmanian films: Australian feature films shot in or set in or first shown in or (partly) financed by Tasmania

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Devil's Hill (Esben Storm, 1988) wr. David Phillips, novel Nan Chauncy; part of a TV series commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations

Departure (Brian Kavanagh, 1985) aka A Pair of Claws; drama set among Tasmanian politics

Dying Breed (Jody Dwyer, 2008) horror; Tasmanian-tiger-seekers encounter cannibals

Exile (Paul Cox, 1993) novel Priest Island by E. L. Grant Watson, dp Nino Marinetti; Aden Young, Beth Champion, Claudia Karvan, Norman Kaye, David Field, Chris Haywood, Barry Otto, Hugo Weaving, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Nicholas Hope; feature went straight to video; Young is exiled to an island in C19 for sheep-stealing; filmed in Tasmania

Hope (Damien Power, AFC Indivision funding 2004) Power is Tasmanian; Serhat Caradee, Daniella Ortega; day in the life of suicidial teenage girl

Howling 3: The Marsupials (Philippe Mora, 1987) I think it shows that archival footage from the 1930s of the last thylacine in captivity

Hunter, The (Daniel Nettheim, 2011) wr. Alice Addison, novel Julia Leigh; Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor; thylacine

Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, The (Michael James Rowland, 2008) based on true story of convict cannibal in Tasmania; cf. Van Diemen's Land (Jonathan auf der Heide, 2009)

Last Tasmanian, The (Tom Haydon, 1978)

Manganinnie (John Honey, 1980) Mawayal Yanthalawuy, Anna Ralph, Phillip Hinton; first feature film from the Tasmanian Film Corporation

Sound of One Hand Clapping, The (Richard Flanagan, 1998) wr. Richard Flanagan from his own novel, prod. Rolf de Heer, exec. prod. Steve Vizard, Andrew Knight, Jackie O'Sullivan, dp. Martin McGrath; Kerry Fox, Kristof Kaczmarek, Rosie Flanagan, Melita Jurisic, Jacek Koman, Evelyn Krape, Essie Davis; 93 min.; Slovenians in Tasmania; mostly positive review by Brian McFarlane, Cinema Papers, 124, May 1998: 36

Tale of Ruby Rose, The (Robert Scholes, 1988) Melita Jurisic, Chris Haywood, Rod Zuanic, Sheila Florance; Tasmania; fur trapper's wife's life of fantasy

They Found a Cave (Andrew Steane, 1962) Visatone Island Pictures; director, most of the cast, and novelist all from Tasmania, where the film was shot; 63 min.

Van Diemen's Land (Jonathan auf der Heide, 2009) story of Alexander Pearce; cf. The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (Michael James Rowland, 2008)

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