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Bordertown (Australian TV Series)
''Bordertown'' is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries, set in 1952 in a refugee camp located in a dusty, remote Australian town called Baringa (apparently inspired by a real migrant camp near the town of Bonegilla, Victoria). The story depicts a year in the lives of the camp residents, displaced persons from World War II who are learning English and awaiting jobs and new lives in Australia.Ina Bertrand, "Borders and Boundaries: History and Television in a Post-Modern World" in The series starred Hugo Weaving as an English teacher, and also featured Cate Blanchett in a smaller role as an albino Italian migrant.Holly Ordway"Bordertown" (review) ''DVD Talk'', October 7, 2002. Reception The series was somewhat controversial for its depiction of life in the migrant camps, and its ratings were not high. Commenting on the 2002 video release of the series, ''Video Store'' magazine noted the "inconsistent tone" of the episodes but thought that ultimately the viewer would become "accust ...
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ...
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Mitchell Butel
Mitchell Patrick Butel (born 10 February 1970) is an Australian actor, singer, director and writer. He is best known for his work in theatre, including musical and opera productions. He has been the artistic director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia since March 2019. Early life and education Mitchell Patrick Butel was born on 10 February 1970. He became interested in theatre as a child after seeing the musical ''Song and Dance'' and later '' Little Shop of Horrors''. He attended the University of New South Wales and studied for a degree in arts/law, majoring in Theatre Studies and working as a paralegal in a law firm between terms. Theatre Acting Butel was part of the original cast of the Australian production of '' Avenue Q'' in 2009, playing the roles of two puppet characters, Princeton and Rod. He has since then worked for many theatre companies. In 2012 he played Friar Laurance in Kip Williams' production of '' Romeo and Juliet'' with the Sydney Theat ...
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1995 Australian Television Series Endings
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1995 Australian Television Series Debuts
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1990s Australian Television Miniseries
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Guy Gross
Guy Gross is an Australian film and television composer. He is known most for writing the award-winning music for the Australian science fiction series ''Farscape'' and the international hit film ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''. He also composed for the animated television series ''Blinky Bill'' and ''Dumb Bunnies''. He has 76 credits as screen composer./ Personal Gross began film scoring while studying classical composition at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, Australia. He is the son of film producers Yoram and Sandra Gross. Gross composed music for the family animation business in High School. Gross was a partner and a director of Trackdown Digital, an Australian film music and audio recording center and is now part of the Church Street Studios collective. From 2012 to 2017 he was President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. Filmography
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Suzanne Gullabovska
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Linda Cropper
Linda Cropper (born 1 January 1958) is an Australian actress, primarily known for her role as Geraldine Proudman in the TV series ''Offspring'' and as Dame Nellie Melba in the television series '' Melba''. An shortened edited version of the television series was selected for screening as a film at a Royal Command Performance before Queen Elizabeth II in London. Television Television credits apart from ''Offspring'' include the lead role of opera legend Nellie Melba in '' Melba'' as well as roles in ABC mini-series ''Palace of Dreams'', '' Edens Lost'', ''Ring of Scorpio'', '' Bordertown'', '' Wildside'', '' Water Rats'', '' All Saints'', ''White Collar Blue'' and '' The Pacific''. She had a recurring role as Xhalax Sun during the third season of the Australian-American science fiction series '' Farscape''. Theatre Cropper's many theatre credits include Simon Phillip's co-production of ''Poor Boy'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, and the r ...
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AWGIE Awards
The AWGIE Awards is an annual awards ceremony conducted by the Australian Writers' Guild, for excellence in screen, television, stage and radio writing. The awards began in 1967. The awards are judged by over 50 writers, most of whom are previous award winners themselves. They receive no payment for their role as judges. The judges sign a confidentiality agreement, stating that they will not disclose to anyone that they are members of the judging panel. Award categories As of 2018, award categories include: Major AWGIE *Awarded to the outstanding script of that year across all categories Feature film *Screenplay Original *Screenplay Adaptation Short Film *Short Film Television *Serial *Series *Mini Series Original *Mini Series Adaptation *Telemovie Original *Telemovie Adaptation *Drama or Comedy, Other Form (Television or Alternate Platforms) Children's Television *Pre-school (under 5 years) *Children's (5–14 years) Comedy *Comedy – Situation or Narrative *Comedy – ...
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A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format has increased in both streaming services and broadcast television. The term " serial" is used in the United Kingdom and in other Commonwealth nations to describe a show that has an ongoing narrative plotline, while " series" is used for a set of episodes in a similar way that "season" is used in North America. Definitions A miniseries is distinguished from an ongoing television series; the latter does not usually have a predetermined number of episodes and may continue for several years. Before the term was coined in the US in the early 1970s, the ongoing episodic form was always called a " serial", just as a novel appearing in episodes in successive editions of magazines or newspapers is called a serial. In Britain, miniseries are of ...
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Albino
Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and pink or blue eyes. Individuals with the condition are referred to as albino. Varied use and interpretation of the terms mean that written reports of albinistic animals can be difficult to verify. Albinism can reduce the survivability of an animal; for example, it has been suggested that albino alligators have an average survival span of only 24 hours due to the lack of protection from UV radiation and their lack of camouflage to avoid predators. It is a common misconception that all albino animals have characteristic pink or red eyes (resulting from the lack of pigment in the iris allowing the blood vessels of the retina to be visible), however this is not the case for some forms of albinism. Familiar albino animals include in-bred strains of laboratory animals (rats, mice and rabbits), but populations of naturally occurring albino animals exist in the w ...
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