Writing
Tim Winton
Timothy John Winton AO (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer. He has written novels, children's, non-fiction, and short stories. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Winton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Blueback · 2022Blueback
★ 6.62022
MovieFamilyDrama
Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world.
Breath · 2017Breath
★ 6.62017
MovieDrama
A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
The Turning · 2013The Turning
★ 5.72013
MovieDrama
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
Dirt Music · 2020Dirt Music
★ 6.32020
MovieDramaRomance
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.
In the Winter Dark · 1998In the Winter Dark
★ 5.41998
MovieDramaHorror
Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.
Lockie Leonard · 2007Lockie Leonard
★ 8.42007
SeriesDramaComedy
Lockie Leonard is an Australian children's television series adapted from the Lockie Leonard books that first screened on the Nine Network on 19 June 2007. The series was filmed in Albany, Western Australia. A second series was filmed in 2009 and screened in 2010 in Australia, the UK and Ireland.
Lockie Leonard was produced by Goalpost Pictures Australia and is distributed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The theme song "Worlds Away" is performed by Jebediah.
Lockie Leonard premiered in the UK on Saturday 27 September 2008, as part of the long running children's Saturday morning programme TMi which airs from 09:00 to 10:30 on BBC Two. It ran for the first 12 episodes then continued to air on CBBC Channel.
The show won the 2008 TV Week Logie Award for Best Children's Series, and star Sean Keenan was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent. It won the 2007 AFI award for Best Children's Drama Series. The series was also nominated for the 2007 BAFTA Awards for Best International Children's Drama Series.
Cloudstreet · 2011Cloudstreet
★ 7.02011
SeriesDrama
Cloudstreet is an Australian television drama miniseries for the Showcase subscription television channel, which first screened from 22 May 2011, in three parts. It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an award-winning novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was filmed in 2010 in Perth with Matthew Saville as the director, and script written by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana.
Ningaloo Nyinggulu · 2023Ningaloo Nyinggulu
2023
SeriesDocumentary
Science-based documentary about the extraordinary wonders of one of the last intact wild places left on Earth – Ningaloo, a refuge for thousands of species of wildlife unknown, extinct, or endangered elsewhere.
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