Celia (film)
| Celia | |
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| Directed by | Ann Turner |
| Produced by |
Gordon Glenn Timothy White |
| Written by | Ann Turner |
| Music by | Chris Neal |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Simpson |
| Edited by | Ken Sallows |
| Distributed by |
Trylon Video (USA) Aniplex (Japan) |
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Release date
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 5 October 1989 19 March 1990 Un-Released |
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Running time
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103 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English Japanese |
| Budget | A$1.4 million |
| Box office | A$23,336 (Australia) ¥ 32,255 (Japan) |
Celia (also known as Celia: Child of Terror) is a 1988 Australian drama film written and directed by Ann Turner.
In suburban Melbourne in the 1950s, amidst the Red Scare and a rabbit plague, Celia (Rebecca Smart) is a troubled nine-year-old caught up in these events, as well as family crises, and whose response to them eventually leads to tragic consequences.
Ann Turner was a graduate of Swinburne who had worked at Film Victoria and the Australian Film Commission as a consultant. She was inspired to write the film by an article in the paper about the Bolte government's rabbit muster in the 1950s.
The script was written in 1984 when it won the AWGIE for Best Unproduced Screenplay.
Celia grossed $23,336 and ¥ 32,255 at the box office in Australia and Japan.
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, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. More recently it was released on video in the United States and Canada by Scorpion Releasing under their sub-label Katarina's Nightmare Theatre.
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