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form y separately published work icon A Sunburnt Christmas single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 A Sunburnt Christmas
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'On an outback farm that's seen hard times, a single mum and her three kids struggle to keep their life together. With Dad recently passed away and Mum slowly losing the plot, it is 14-year-old Hazel who shoulders the burden, managing the failing farm and keeping her younger siblings from careering completely off the rails. They all suspect there won't be much Christmas joy this year, but when a strange man dressed as Santa Claus crashes a van full of toys onto their property, their world is turned upside down in ways they could never have imagined.' (Production summary)

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Telemovies Have Dominated Christmas Movies for 50 Years – so Why Are the Aussie Straight-to-streaming Ones This Bad? Ari Mattes , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 December 2023;

'For some, December 25 is a solemn day, key on the Christian calendar, involving important traditions to be treated with reverence. But for many, Christmas is a time for unbridled fun: Santa, presents, and the random grump next door who suddenly decorates his house in an overwhelmingly delirious light display. For a month, we embrace with childlike delight things that for the rest of the year we would dismiss as kitsch, tacky, too bright, too shiny.' (Introduction)

From Love Actually to Christmas On The Farm : How Rom-coms Became a Festive Season Staple Jodi McAlister , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 December 2021;
A Sunburnt Christmas Review – A Very Australian Bad-Santa Comedy for a Jolly Holiday Season Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 December 2020;

— Review of A Sunburnt Christmas Elliot Vella , Gretel Vella , Timothy Walker , 2020 single work film/TV

'Bondi Hipster Christiaan Van Vuuren’s outback romp about a nogoodnik St Nick is spirited and sweet in a backhanded way.'

A Sunburnt Christmas Review – A Very Australian Bad-Santa Comedy for a Jolly Holiday Season Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 December 2020;

— Review of A Sunburnt Christmas Elliot Vella , Gretel Vella , Timothy Walker , 2020 single work film/TV

'Bondi Hipster Christiaan Van Vuuren’s outback romp about a nogoodnik St Nick is spirited and sweet in a backhanded way.'

From Love Actually to Christmas On The Farm : How Rom-coms Became a Festive Season Staple Jodi McAlister , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 December 2021;
Telemovies Have Dominated Christmas Movies for 50 Years – so Why Are the Aussie Straight-to-streaming Ones This Bad? Ari Mattes , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 December 2023;

'For some, December 25 is a solemn day, key on the Christian calendar, involving important traditions to be treated with reverence. But for many, Christmas is a time for unbridled fun: Santa, presents, and the random grump next door who suddenly decorates his house in an overwhelmingly delirious light display. For a month, we embrace with childlike delight things that for the rest of the year we would dismiss as kitsch, tacky, too bright, too shiny.' (Introduction)

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