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MY BRILLIANT CAREER Director: Wendy Hughes
Set in the 20th Century in Australia, Gillian Armstrong Robert Grubb
Sybylla Melvyn has the opportunity of Writer: Max Cullen
marriage to a wealthy young man whom Eleanor Witcombe Genre:
she loves, but rejects it in order to main- adapted from the Drama,
tain her independence, preferring to take novel by Romance
a job as governess/housekeeper to the Miles Franklin Year of
family of an illiterate neighbour to whom Cast: Production: 1979
her father owes money. Sam Neill
Judy Davis

ON A CLEAR DAY Director: Genre: Drama
Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old Gaby Dellal Year of
working-class man, suddenly finds him- Writer: Production: 2005
self laid off. For the first time in his life, he Alex Rose
is without a job or a sense of direction and Cast:
he’s too proud to ask for guidance. He will Peter Mullan
attempt the near impossible; swimming Brenda Blethyn
the English Channel. As Frank plunges Billy Boyd
headlong into his new daily life, his aston-
ished friends are swept along with him.

ORANGES AND Director: Genre: Drama
SUNSHINE Jim Loach Year of
Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Writer: Production: 2010
Rona Munro,
Margaret Humphreys, a social worker Margaret Hum-
from Nottingham, who uncovered one phreys
of the most significant social scandals in Cast:
recent time: the organised deportation Emily Watson
of children from the United Kingdom to Hugo Weaving
Australia. Almost single-handedly, against David Wenham
overwhelming odds and with little regard
for her own well-being, Margaret reunited
thousands of families, brought authorities
to account and worldwide attention to an
extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

PELICAN BLOOD Director: Arthur Darvill
After a disastrous break up from his Karl Golden Emma Booth
girlfriend, Nikko has thrown all of his Writer: Harry Treadaway
energy into his hobby: bird spotting. Just Cris Cole based on Genre:
as his life begins to get back on track, his the book ‘Pelican Drama
ex-girlfriend arrives back on the scene, Blood’ by Year of
causing a rift between Nikko and all of his Cris Freddi Production: 2010
friends, who warn him she will destroy Cast:
him due to their unsettled past. Oona Chapman

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