Moving On (film)

Moving On
Directed by Richard Mason
Produced by Don Murray
Written by Anne Brooksbank
Cliff Green
Starring Ewen Solon
Cinematography Dean Semler
Edited by Tim Wellburn
Production
company
Release date
 1974
Running time
 57 mins
Country Australia
Language English

Moving On is a 1974 Australian film about a sheep farmer George Collier who moves to a county town. It was made by Film Australia to help draw attention to the problems the rural poor.[1]

Cast

  • Ewen Solon as George Collier
  • Kay Taylor as Elizabeth Collier
  • Ken Shorter as Alan
  • Lyndell Rowe as Anne
  • Carole Yelland as Pauline
  • Brian Anderson as Ron
  • Michaelle Brooker as Margaret
  • Jonathan Hardy as Anne's boyfriend
  • jeff Ashby as city man
  • Bruce Spence as road worker
  • Roger Ward as sotcik agent
  • John Fegan as unemployed grower
  • Robert McDarra as financier
  • Carole Ashby

Release

The film was widely distributed through non-theatrical film libraries in Australia and screened on television in January 1974. The writer won an award with the Australian Writers Guild.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Moving On at National Film and Sound Archive
  2. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p274


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