Australia Daze
Directed byPat Fiske[1]
Produced byGraeme Isaac[1]
Music byDavood Tabrizi[1]
Release date
  • 1988 (1988)
Running time
75 minutes[2]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Australia Daze is a 1988 Australian documentary film that takes a look at how various Australians spent Australia Day 1988.[3]

Overview

Australia Daze is a combination of footage shot by 29 different camera crews in various locations around Australia from midnight to midnight on 26 January 1988, the Bicentenary of European settlement in Australia.[4][5][6][7]

The film includes footage of the Aboriginal Protest of the Bicentenary, where more than 40,000 people marched through Sydney in the largest march in Sydney since the Vietnam Moratorium.[8]

Awards

Ceremony Category Result
Australian Film Institute Awards Best Editing Won[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c ""Australia Daze (1988) Credits"". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ^ ""Australia Daze (1988)"". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  3. ^ ""Australia Daze (1988) Notes"". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. ^ ""Australia Daze (1988)"". Screen Australia. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  5. ^ ""Australia daze [videorecording]."". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  6. ^ ""Indigenous film"". Australian Government. Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  7. ^ ""Movies - Australia Daze"". www.CreativeSpirits.info. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  8. ^ ""Indigenous Protest, 1988 Australian Bicentenary"". Museum Victoria. Archived from the original on 8 October 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  9. ^ ""Pat Fiske Filmography"". Bower Bird Films. Retrieved 1 January 2015.

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