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Radiance
Synopsis
Three sisters reunite after some years apart, for their mother's funeral.
Cressy, the eldest of the three, is a diva — an opera singer who is reluctant to visit the past and definitely doesn't want to share it with her sisters.
Mae, has stayed behind looking after mum, and believes that Cressy hasn't shared enough.
Nona, the youngest and the party girl, just wants them to all be one happy family. She may even help grow the family if her pregnancy test is accurate.
Deep and dark family secrets and personal conflicts start to unravel, but not all is gloom.
Details
- Cast
- Rachael Maza - Cressy
Trisha Morton-Thomas - Mae
Deborah Mailman - Nona - Release dates
- October 8th, 1998 - Australia
- Video/DVD release date
- April 21, 1999 (e.g. at Mongrel Media)
- Awards
- Best actress (1998 Australian Film Institute Awards) Best film (1998 Australian International Film Festival) Best sound design (1998 Australian Screen Sound Guild) Best actress (1998 Film Critics' Circle of Australia) Best feature film (1998 Sydney Film Festival) Best full length film (1999 Creteil Film Des Femmes Festival) Best actress (1999 Turin Film Festival Italy) Best direction (2000 Tudawali Film and Video Awards) Byron Kennedy Award (44th annual Emirates AFI Awards 2002)
- Rating
- PG - Parental guidance
- Distributor
- Polygram Filmed Entertainment (AUS); Beyond Films (international)
- Soundtrack
- Alistair Jones
- Notes
Based on the stage play "Radiance" by Louis Nowra first performed in 1993 at the Belvoir Street Theatre.
According to Amanda Meade in 'Shifting Visions', The Australian, Monday, June 1998, Radiance is the third feature to be made by an Aboriginal person---and only the second to get a theatrical release. (Source: Bonza film database)
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- 2001One Night The Moon
- 2008First Australians
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- 2012Mabo
- 2012Redfern Now (Series 1)
- 2013Redfern Now (Series 2)
- 2014First Contact
- 2014Black Panther Woman
- 2015Promise Me
- 2016First Contact (Season 2)
- 2017Jasper Jones
- 2018Mystery Road (TV series, Season 1)
- 2019Total Control (Series 1)
- 2021First Wars
- 2021Total Control (Series 2)
- 2022The Australian Wars
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