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Film Details - Eclipse Films , 1998
Producers:
Ned Lander (Producer)
Andrew Myer (Producer)
Jenny Day (Co-producer)
Louis Nowra (Associate Producer)
Production Companies:
Eclipse Films
AndyInc
Joanna Baevski and Michael Myer
Premium Movie Partnership (for Showtime Australia)
SBS Independent
Finance Organisations:
Australian Film Commisssion
New South Wales Film and Television Office
Director of Photography:
Warwick Thornton
Editors:
James Bradley
Production Designers:
Sarah Stollman
Composer:
Alistair Jones
Cast:
Rachael Maza (Cressy), Deborah Mailman (Nona), Trisha Morton-Thomas (Mae), Russell Kiefel (Priest), Ben Oxenbould (Barman).
Notes:
Allison Craven notes in 'Tropical Gothic: "Radiance" Revisited' that Radiance is 'the first feature film to have been made by an Indigenous woman' and that the screenplay was 'co-scripted by Perkins and Nowra' (Etropic vol. 7, 2008).
Settings:
- Far North Queensland, Queensland,