Cirrus

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Film Details - Dish Film , 2000

Producers:

Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Michael Hirsh, Jane Kennedy, and Rob Sitch.

Production Companies:

Dish Film.

Distant Horizon.

Working Dog (presents).

Director of Photography:

Graeme Wood.

Editors:

Jill Bilcock.

Production Designers:

Carrie Kennedy.

Music:

Edmund Choi.

Cast:

Including Sam Neill (Cliff Buxton), Billy Mitchell (Cameron), Roz Hammond (Miss Nolan), Christopher-Robin Street (Damien), Luke Keltie (Graeme), Naomi Wright (Melanie), Ben Wright-Smith (Nicholas), Grant Thompson (Mr. Callen), Bille Brown (Prime Minister), Kevin Harrington (Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell), Tom Long (Glenn Latham), Patrick Warburton (Al Burnett), Roy Billing (Mayor Robert 'Bob' McIntyre), Andrew S. Gilbert (Len Purvis), Matthew Moore (Keith Morrison), Kerry Walker (Pearl), Denise Roberts (Bronwyn), Jeff Keogh (Ray), Jason Ritterman (Adrian Hobbs), Genevieve Mooy (May McIntyre), Marilyn O'Donnell (Melva), Jane Menelaus (Gwen), Lenka Kripac (Marie McIntyre), John Flaus (Ron), Carl Snell (Billy McIntyre), Eliza Szonert (Janine Kellerman), Tayler Kane (Rudi Kellerman), John McMartin (U.S. Ambassador Howard), Frank Bennett (Barry Steele), Randall Berger (Ambassador's Aide), and Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (Reverend Loftus).

Release Dates:

15 September 2000 (Toronto International Film Festival: international premiere).

19 October 2000 (Australian premiere).

14 March 2001 (US premiere: limited release).

4 May 2001 (US general release).

Subjects:

Settings:

Parkes, Parkes area, Parkes - Forbes area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
1969

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