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'A dyslexic wildchild, frustrated by her father's obsession with her sister's Olympic aspirations, fights to enter the first kids' team in a grueling outback marathon race and be seen as a star in her own right.
A feature family film based on an actual marathon event held in outback Australia for 38 years.'
Source: Falling Star website, www.fallingstar.com.au (sighted: 13/12/2011)
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Awards
- 2011 nominated AWGIE Awards — Monte Miller Award — Long Form
- 2009 winner Bill Warnock Award Under the title: The Flying Fleas
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- Pilbara area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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