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Going Down (film)
''Going Down'' is a 1982 Australian film about young people living in a share house.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p144 The film's one-liner reads: "Four women friends leave behind the feral days of youth after a night of uncontrolled excess in inner-city Sydney during the early 1980s." Cast * Tracy Mann as Karli * Vera Plevnik as Jane * Julie Barry as Jackie * Moira MacLaine-Cross as Ellen * David Argue as Greg / Trixie * Esben Storm as Michael * Ian Gilmour (actor), Ian Gilmour as Shadow * Danny Adcock as Supporter * Mercia Deane-Johns as Ned Release The film was self-distributed and ran for 14 weeks in Sydney but performed poorly in Melbourne. In 2025, Muscle Distribution, as part of its first acquisition and theatrical release, restored the film in 4K for its first-ever U.S. run, premiering at BAM Rose Cinemas in New York. Reception "A remarkable landmark in Australian independent filmmaking. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Mann
Tracy Mann is an Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won an Australian Film Institute award in 1980 for the film '' Hard Knocks'' . She has also won awards for her work in the mini-series ''Sword of Honour'' and 2005 comedy film '' Hating Alison Ashley''. Early life and education Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Tracy Mann first expressed interest in becoming an actress at the age of four. She undertook drama classes as a child, then as a teenager with the Saturday Company, a branch of the State Theatre Company of South Australia (STCSA). Fresh from high school in 1973, she performed in ''Winnie the Pooh'' for Adelaide Festival Theatre and joined Actors Equity of Australia. She subsequently studied in London under Phillipe Gaulier in the 1990s. Career Television Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in 1970s soap opera '' The Box''. Mann is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing deaf bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Plevnik
Vera Plevnik (c. 1955/195627 January 1982) was an Australian actress, born to Yugoslav-Russian parents best known for winning a Logie for her performance as a resistance fighter Nadia Grosse in the TV movie '' The John Sullivan Story'', a spin-off of the TV series ''The Sullivans'' She initially trained at teachers college, but chose acting, training at the Victorian College of the Arts. Plevnik died in a car crash near Batemans Bay when her late model Sedan hit another vehicle coming north from the Princes Highway, the 60 year old driver of the other vehicle also was killed . She was a friend of James Reyne and her life inspired several of his songs. Select credits *''The Golden Oldies'' (1977) – play *'' The John Sullivan Story'' (1979) – TV movie * ''The Sullivans'' (1980) - TV series * ''Cop Shop'' (1980) - TV series *''Young Ramsay'' (1980) – TV series – episode "The Littlest Goldmine" *''The Same Stream'' (1981) – short *''The Fame is Shared'' (1981) – live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haydn Keenan
Haydn Keenan (c. 1951) is an Australian producer, writer and director. Select credits *'' 27A'' (1974) - producer *'' Going Down'' (1983) - producer, director *'' Pandemonium'' (1987) - director *''Persons of Interest: The Asio Files'' (2012) (documentary) accessed 21 November 2012 References External links *Street Smart Films - Keenan's company Living people Australian film directors [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Argue
David J. Argue (born 1959) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as Snowy in ''Gallipoli'' as well as the lead role in the 1993 film '' Hercules Returns'' and Dicko in the 1983 film ''Razorback A feral pig is a pig, domestic pig which has gone feral, meaning it lives in the wild. The term feral pig has also been applied to wild boars, which can interbreed with domestic pigs. They are found mostly in the Americas and Australia. Razorb ...''. Argue left school in grade ten and went to NIDA. He earned a reputation as a talented, charismatic actor whom some found difficult to deal with; he was fired from ''Phar Lap'', ''Fortunate Life'' and ''Great Expectations''. Filmography Film Television Stage References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Argue, Dave Australian male film actors Australian male television actors Living people Australian male comedians 1959 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esben Storm
Esben Storm (26 May 1950 – 28 March 2011) was a Danish Australian actor, screenwriter, television producer, television director, voice artist and songwriter. Early life Storm came to Australia with parents Laurits and Ane in 1958, after Laurits lost the family farm to lawyers. After settling in Melbourne, his father worked as a builder's labourer and built a darkroom, where Esben learned photographic processing, composition and lighting. Career Storm was well known for his work with the Australian Children's Television Foundation, headed by Patricia Edgar, where he worked for 15 years. The company sold programs to 92 countries, and Storm was involved in writing, acting, editing, and directing numerous programs, including '' Round the Twist''. He worked to adapt John Marsden's ''Tomorrow'' series but lost the rights to the film. Film making Storm started making films at 18 with his then partner Haydn Keenan. His early work was mostly serious in nature, including a 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Gilmour (actor)
Ian Gilmour is a New Zealand-born actor and director who has worked mostly in Australia. Career Television He has acted in several Australian television series, most notably as Kevin Burns in ''Prisoner'' in 1980. Other credits include '' The Box'', '' Chopper Squad'', '' Kingswood Country'', '' Waterloo Station'', ''A Country Practice'' and ''The Flying Doctors''.Albert Moran and Chris Keating Film Film credits include: ''The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'', '' The Odd Angry Shot'', '' Silver City'', ''The Coca-Cola Kid'', ''Malpractice'' and ''A Cry in the Dark''. Directing He subsequently moved away from acting to become a director. His directorial credits in television include: ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Heartbreak High'', '' Water Rats'', '' McLeod's Daughters'', '' Flipper'' and ''Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Adcock
Danny Adcock is an Australian actor. Career Film and television Adcock has worked extensively in television. After scoring a handful of guest roles, he landed his first film role as a policeman in the Ozploitation film '' The Cars That Ate Paris''. Further small screen guest appearances included ''Matlock Police'', ''Division 4'', ''Homicide'', '' Skyways'' and ''Cop Shop'', ''Rafferty's Rules'', '' A Country Practice'', '' The Flying Doctors'', '' Water Rats'', '' All Saints'', ''Home and Away'', '' Bullpitt!'' and '' Redfern Now''. He had regular or recurring roles in the first season of ''Patrol Boat'' (1979), '' Arcade'' (1980), '' The Bush Gang'' (1981), ''Prisoner'' (1982–83), '' Sons and Daughters'' (1983–84), the second season of ''Fire'' (1996), ''Blue Heelers ''Blue Heelers'' is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for twelve years on the Seven Network, from 1994 to 2006. Although based around the policin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercia Deane-Johns
Mercia Deane-Johns is an Australian actress of film, stage and television. She is also a writer, singer, and stand-up comedian. She has played a wide array of characters since she was 12 years old and has appeared in many film roles and TV series on Australian screens. Education Born in Melbourne on 21 February 1958, Mercia Deane-Johns trained at a television and film course with Crawford Productions, in 1974. She has studied ballet at the Gertrud Bodenwieser Dance Centre, in Sydney. Deane-Johns obtained a diploma in classical singing and theory of music from the London College of Music, Ealing, London in 1975. She is also an Associate of the London College of Music (A.L.C.M). She was on a twelve-month contract at the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1978. She has studied Tai chi and had private lessons with the late Tennyson Yui for one year, in 1980. Deane-Johns attended Southern Cross University from 2006 to 2010 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in writing and communication. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BAM Rose Cinemas
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City. It hosts progressive and avant-garde performances, with theater, dance, music, opera, film programming across multiple nearby venues. BAM was chartered in 1859, presented its first show in 1861, and began operations in its present location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in 1908. The Academy is incorporated as a New York State not-for-profit corporation. It has 501(c)(3) status. Gina Duncan has served as president since April 2022. David Binder became artistic director in 2019. History Original facility On October 21, 1858, a meeting was held at the Polytechnic Institute to measure support for establishing ''"a hall adapted to Musical, Literary, Scientific and other occasional purposes, of sufficient size to meet the requirements of our large population and worth in style and appearance of our city."'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne International Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1952 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world following the founding of the Venice Film Festival in 1932, Cannes Film Festival in 1939 and Berlin Film Festival in 1951. Currently held in the month of August from 8th to 25th in 2024 and spanning events in the Melbourne CBD as well as inner-suburban and regional Victoria, MIFF screens films from both Australia and across the world to an audience of approximately 150,000. It is the largest film festival in both Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, and is the world’s largest showcase of new Australian cinema. The 2022 festival contributed Australian dollar, A$9.7 million to the City of Melbourne’s economy. Alongside its expansive and well-received film program, MIFF realizes its vision, “An enlightened, inclusive, engaged society through film”, via its renowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Screen Online
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
