Cirrus

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Film Details - ABC Television , 1986

Producers:

Jan Chapman.

Production Companies:

ABC Television.

Director of Photography:

Julian Penney.

Editors:

Bill Russo.

Production Designers:

Janet Patterson.

Music:

Martin Armiger.

Cast:

Including Kris Bidenko (Kelly), Emma Coles (Louise), Kris McQuade (Janet, Louise's mother), Peter Hehir (Malcolm), Kerry Dwyer (Alison), Stephen Leeder (Jim), Debra May (Chris, Kelly's mother), John Sheerin (Dead Girl's Father), Sean Travers (Matthew), Emily Stocker (Soula), Lynne Murphy (School Principal), Giovanni Marangoni (Renato), Benny Ulizzi (Sam), Rory Delaney (Wally), Lisa Rogers (Little Helen), Amanda Frederickson (Kate), Martin Armiger (Phillip), and Jim Madias (Con).

Release Dates:

Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986: "the first Australian telemovie ever to be invited to screen at Cannes" (Canberra Times, 14 September 1986, p.11).

Subsequently aired on ABC television on Friday 26 September 1986, as the first in the Australian Telemovies series.

Screened at the Sydney Film Festival on 11 June, 2023.

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