BLOWN AWAY was awarded Best Documentary at the Capricornia Film Awards in Darwin on Saturday 24th September 2016. Director Danielle MacLean and Producer Rachel Clements were thrilled to accept the award during the presentation ceremony at the Deckchair Cinema. Congratulations to all the team and...
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BLOWN AWAY is nominated in the inaugural Capricornia Film Awards in both Documentary & Animation categories. Yay Team! ...
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Danielle Maclean has been nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award for BLOWN AWAY in the category of stand-alone documentary. The Award winners will be announced on Friday 8 May at an Awards Ceremony and Black Tie Dinner at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins. ...
Read MoreWas 21 and a wanderer, left Cairns mid 1974 after living and working there for several months and headed south through Victoria and South Australia and across to Western Australia before heading north and arriving in Darwin maybe August 1974. Would have stopped somewhere if...
Read MoreWhen the news first hit 'down south' the death toll was given as 500+. The official final toll was well under 100. I kept hearing that the media had been slapped with a 'D' notice - i.e. banned form revealing the true figures - something...
Read MoreMem was a young Australian woman I met between 1970 and 1973 in London. She returned to Australia. Soon after Tracy I was told she'd died on a fishing boat in the cyclone. I emigrated to Australia in 1986 and soon after visited Darwin to pay...
Read MoreA great documentary shows you something you never knew, and the best of them show you something new about a subject you think you know inside out. So it is with this wonderful effort from indigenous filmmaker Danielle MacLean who revisits Cyclone Tracy 40 years...
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"It's an enthralling hour of television, giving great insight into what Darwin was like before and after the cyclone". - Alana Wulff, TV Week...
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You can see BLOWN AWAY on ABC1 at 8:30pm on Tuesday December 23 and again on ABC2 at 8:30pm on Sunday December 28....
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