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Screen cap from promotional trailer
Adaptation of
My Life as an Alphabet
2013
single work
children's fiction
Issue Details:
First known date:
2019...
2019
H is for Happiness
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Film Details - Cyan Films , 2019
Producers:
Julie Ryan, Tenille Kennedy, and Lisa Hoppe (producers).
Richard East, Jonathan Page, Bryce Menzies, and Avrill Stark (executive producers).
Production Companies:
Cyan Films.
Finance Organisations:
Screen Australia.
WA Regional Film Fund.
Screenwest.
Melbourne Film International Festival (MIFF) Premiere Fund.
Film Victoria.
Soundfirm.
Director of Photography:
Bonnie Elliott.
Editors:
Johanna Scott.
Production Designers:
Nicki Gardiner.
Composer:
Nerida Chow-Tyson.
Cast:
Including Richard Roxburgh (Jim Phee), Miriam Margolyes (Miss Bamford), Emma Booth (Claire Phee), Joel Jackson (Rich Uncle Brian), Deborah Mailman (Penelope Benson), George Shevtsov (Gavin), Daisy Axon (Candice Phee), Ali Jayne [Alessandra] Tognini (Jen Marshall) Sam Longley (Butler), and Wesley Patten (Douglas Benson).
Release Dates:
International premiere: 21 February 2020 (Berlinale).
Location:
- Albany, Western Australia.
Awards:
- AACTA Awards, Best Direction (nominated), 2020.
- AACTA Awards, Best Lead Actor (nominated), 2020.
- AACTA Awards, Best Supporting Actor (nominated), 2020.
- AACTA award, Best Supporting Actress (nomination: two actors) (2020).
- AACTA award, Best Cinematography (nomination) (2020).
- AACTA Award, Best Original Score (nomination) (2020).
- AACTA Award, Best Costume Design (nomination) (2020).
- AACTA Award, Best Casting (nomination) (2020).
