| Title |
Stations |
| Copyright Title |
Stations |
| Released |
1983 |
| Production Year |
1983 |
| Director |
Jackie McKimmie
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| Comments |
STATIONS is a 22-minute drama, shot on 16mm black and white film.
It received several awards including:
Best Fiction, Greater Union Awards, Sydney, 1983
Best Short Film, Tyneside Film Festival, UK 1983
Best Film in the Arts, A.T.O.M Awards 1983.
Best Short Fiction, Womens Film Event, Florence, Italy 1984. |
| Synopsis |
STATIONS is the story of Dora, a young girl growing up in Brisbane in the 1950s. Dora's romantic dreams are shattered, by her boyfriend's rejection when she tells him she is pregnant and wants to keep the baby. However, Dora perseveres to overcome the conventions and restrictions that stigmatise a single-mother in the 1950s. |
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| newspaper - A low-budget Australian dream The Sydney Morning Herald. 19-06-1984. p.10 |
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Geraldine O'Brien
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| Brief discussion on the making of Australian Dream [full record]
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| journal - After Stations the Australian Dream The Australian Film Review 8 V2. p.25 |
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Beth Quinlivan
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| An interview with Jackie McKimmie, discussing the up-coming production of her first feature film, Australian Dream.[full record]
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| journal - Dream maker Cinema Papers. 01-03-1986. p.14 |
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Mary Colbert
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| An interview with Jackie McKimmie where she discusses making Australian Dream
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| newspaper - Finding the small poems of sub-tropical suburbia The Age. 18-06-1984. p.14 |
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Anna Murdoch
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| journal - Jackie McKimmie on Stations Filmnews 11 V13. p.4 |
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Beth McRae,
Tina Kaufman
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| An in-depth interview with the director of Stations, Jackie McKimmie.
[full record]
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| newspaper - Jackie's career takes the right direction The Herald (Vic). 22-06-1984. p.14 |
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Jane Evans
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| Jackie McKimmie discusses her film Australian Dream.
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| book - Landprints: reflections on place and landscape . 00-00-1997 |
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George Seddon
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| Landprints is a collection of essays which reflects a lifetime devoted to questions of landscape. With an engaging style, Seddon considers everything from c...[full record]
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| newspaper - Some little fillers relieve an otherwise plodding film festival The Sydney Morning Herald (Good Weekend). 18-06-1983. p.10 |
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Anna-Maria Dell'oso
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| A positive review of Jackie McKimmie's film Stations.
Anna Dell'oso provides a thorough and insightful review of Stations in the context of the Sydney Film...[full record]
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| newspaper - Sripts are written in the stars The Australian. 04-10-1983 |
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Sarah Walls
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| Brief interview with McKimmie on the making of Stations. [full record]
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| journal - When will majors let oz audiences see oz short films? |
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Independent Lobby
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| Discusses where onus lies in theatrical exhibition of short films, appeal and importance of short films and reasons behind the 'major's decision. [full record]
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