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form y separately published work icon Frog Dreaming single work   film/TV   fantasy   children's  
Alternative title: The Quest
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Frog Dreaming
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'A 14-year-old American orphan living in a small Australian town explores a lake looking for the underwater monster of Aboriginal legend and meets disaster.'

(Source: National Film and Sound Archive website)

Notes

  • The trailer for this film is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AyWjl4wWl4 (Sighted: 22/6/2012)

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The 10 Scariest Animals in Australian Cinema - Sorted Luke Buckmaster , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 24 October 2022; 'Want to spend this Halloween being scared by sharks in a supermarket or a giant kangaroo? Look no further than this list of films to watch from Luke Buckmaster.'
y separately published work icon Adventures in the B Movie Trade Brian Trenchard-Smith , United States of America (USA) : Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2020 20704470 2020 single work autobiography

'Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," " Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings"," Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his " favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
Frog Dreaming : A Strange and Wonderful Should-be Australian Classic Lauren Carroll Harris , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 July 2017;

'Starring ET’s Henry Thomas, this is magical, smartly crafted B-grade 80s nostalgia, if you look past the casual racism.'
'Superboong!...' : The Ambivalence of Comedy and Differing Histories of Race Alan McKee , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 10 no. 2 1996; (p. 44-57)
'Superboong!...' : The Ambivalence of Comedy and Differing Histories of Race Alan McKee , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 10 no. 2 1996; (p. 44-57)
Frog Dreaming : A Strange and Wonderful Should-be Australian Classic Lauren Carroll Harris , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 July 2017;

'Starring ET’s Henry Thomas, this is magical, smartly crafted B-grade 80s nostalgia, if you look past the casual racism.'
y separately published work icon Adventures in the B Movie Trade Brian Trenchard-Smith , United States of America (USA) : Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2020 20704470 2020 single work autobiography

'Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," " Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings"," Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his " favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
The 10 Scariest Animals in Australian Cinema - Sorted Luke Buckmaster , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 24 October 2022; 'Want to spend this Halloween being scared by sharks in a supermarket or a giant kangaroo? Look no further than this list of films to watch from Luke Buckmaster.'
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