Celia (film)
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Celia is a 1988 Australia
n drama film
written and directed by Ann Turner.
and a rabbit plague
, it stars Rebecca Smart
as troubled nine year old Celia as the movie follows her descent into madness.
Turner won the Grand Prix award at the 1989 Créteil International Women's Film Festival
and for her part as Alice Tanner, Victoria Longley won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award from the Australian Film Institute
.
To date, the film has been released on DVD
in Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It has still not been released on this format in the United States.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
written and directed by Ann Turner.
Plot
Set in rural Australia in the 1950s amidst the Red ScareRed Scare
Durrell Blackwell Durrell Blackwell The term Red Scare denotes two distinct periods of strong Anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1919 to 1920, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The First Red Scare was about worker revolution and...
and a rabbit plague
Rabbits in Australia
In Australia, rabbits are a serious mammalian pest and are an invasive species. Annually, European rabbits cause millions of dollars of damage to crops.-Effects on Australia's ecology:...
, it stars Rebecca Smart
Rebecca Smart
Rebecca Elizabeth Smart is an Australian actress born in Tamworth, Australia.Smart has performed in movies like The Coca-Cola Kid, Violet's Visit and Blackrock as well as television shows and miniseries like Elly & Jools, The Shiralee and Water Rats.She won the Most Popular Actress in a...
as troubled nine year old Celia as the movie follows her descent into madness.
Cast
- Rebecca SmartRebecca SmartRebecca Elizabeth Smart is an Australian actress born in Tamworth, Australia.Smart has performed in movies like The Coca-Cola Kid, Violet's Visit and Blackrock as well as television shows and miniseries like Elly & Jools, The Shiralee and Water Rats.She won the Most Popular Actress in a...
as Celia Carmichael - Nicholas EadieNicholas EadieNicholas Eadie is an Australian television actor.Born in Sydney, New South Wales to actor and Australian Broadcasting Commission radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, he attended Waverley College from 1968 to 1976, studied Arts at University of New England for one year in 1977, and studied at the National...
as Ray Carmichael - Victoria Longley as Alice Tanner
- Mary-Anne FaheyMary-Anne FaheyMary-Anne Fahey is an Australian actor, comedian and writer.-Biography:Fahey has starred in and written for comedy programs including The Comedy Company, Kittson, Fahey , Get a Life and One Size Fits All...
as Pat Carmichael - Margaret Ricketts as Grandmother
- Alexander Hutchinson as Steve Tanner
- Adrian Mitchell as Karl Tanner
- Callie Gray as Meryl Tanner
- Martin Sharman as Evan Tanner
- Clair Couttie as Heather Goldman
- Alex MengletAlex MengletAlex Menglet, born Alexei Menglet in Moscow in 1956, is an actor who has found success working in Australia. He is best known for his roles as chef Ray "Gay Ray" Proctor in the 1984 season of Prisoner and more recently as Zoran Baranoff in the SBS series Kick...
as Mr. Goldman - Amelia FridAmelia FridAmelia Frid is an Australian actress who played Cody Willis in Neighbours. She retired from acting to concentrate on studies and her current profession is forensic psychology. Frid's final appearance in Neighbours as Cody Willis was 30 July 1991 which was her 16th birthday...
as Stephanie Burke - William Zappa as Inspector John Burke
- Feon Keane as Soapy Burke
- Louise Le NayLouise Le NayLouise Le Nay is an Australian actress, best known for playing Sandy Edwards in Prisoner in a role which spanned the end of 1981 and the beginning of 1982 on screen. In the show, Sandy became Top Dog whilst Bea Smith was in hospital, and was a popular and key character...
as Debbie Burke
Release
Celia grossed $23,336 at the box office in Australia.Turner won the Grand Prix award at the 1989 Créteil International Women's Film Festival
Créteil International Women's Film Festival
The Créteil International Women's Film Festival is an annual event in Créteil, Paris, France founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed. The first festival was held in 1979 in Sceaux...
and for her part as Alice Tanner, Victoria Longley won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award from the Australian Film Institute
Australian Film Institute
The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
.
To date, the film has been released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
in Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It has still not been released on this format in the United States.