Videos
The Movie (2019) Rated PG
Links
-
Ambience Entertainment. (no date). Storm Boy. Retrieved from https://stormboythefilm.com/#storm-boy-homeThe official website of the 2019 film.
-
Buckmaster, Luke. (2019). Storm Boy review – not even a beloved pelican can save this epic downer. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/14/storm-boy-review-not-even-a-beloved-pelican-can-save-this-epic-downerShawn Seet’s remake of the Australian film, which stars Geoffrey Rush, makes jarring missteps in its final act.
-
Bugbee, Teo. (2019). ‘Storm Boy’ Review: Raising Pelicans in a Film That Never Fully Takes Flight. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/movies/storm-boy-review.html“Storm Boy” tries to present itself as a modern fable, where the lessons learned relate directly to present-day concerns over the environment, industrialization and the marginalization of indigenous cultures. But these themes come across as didactic rather than moving.
-
Curtis, Jordan. (2016). Storm Boy remake planned 40 years after original award-winning film. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-18/storm-boy-remake-40th-anniversary/8038216Four decades after the Australian movie Storm Boy premiered in Adelaide and led what was later considered by many to have been a renaissance for the nation's film industry, a remake is in the planning.
-
Dayman, Isabel. (2017). Storm Boy remake with actor Geoffrey Rush about to start filming in SA Coorong. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-26/storm-boy-remake-with-geoffrey-rush-to-start-coorong-filming/8746236A remake of a classic Australian film that put South Australia's Coorong wetlands region on the global stage is about to start, at a time when debate is again raging about protecting the Murray-Darling river system. The 1976 classic Storm Boy will be retold by its central character, Mike, now as an older man.
-
Hill, Kate. (2017). Search for South Australian 'Storm Boy' to star in remake of film classic. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-03/search-for-sa-storm-boy-to-star-in-film-classic-remake/8489010A young animal lover is about to get the chance of a lifetime as a casting company scours South Australia for a fresh new face to star in a remake of the classic Australian film Storm Boy. Heesom Casting director Angela Heesom said they are hoping to find a boy aged between 10 and 13 who evokes a certain wild spirit and they believe their ultimate 'storm boy' may be discovered in regional South Australia.
-
IMDB. (2020). Storm Boy (2019). Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3340446/IMDB provides information about award wins and nominations, cast, related movies, trivia and technical details.
-
Ward, Sarah. (2019). 'Storm Boy': review. Retrieved from https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/storm-boy-review/5135434.articleThe tale of a boy and his pelican best friend remains as tender and touching as ever in Storm Boy, the second adaptation of Colin Thiele’s Australian children’s book of the same name.
-
Ziln Film Festival. (2019). Director Shawn Seet about STORM BOY. Retrieved from https://www.zlinfest.cz/en/26555n-director-shawn-seet-about-storm-boyColin Thiele’s novella Storm Boy, telling the story of a young boy’s extraordinary friendship with a pelican, has enchanted Australians for over half a century. Australian children still study the book at school, and in 2013 a stage adaptation was sold out for the entire season. That’s when producer Matthew Street got the idea that maybe it was time for a cinematic re-adaptation.
-
Marriner, Katy. (2018). Storm Boy: Atom Study Guide. Retrieved from https://go.aws/3cKkohWThe activities within this study guide provide opportunities for students to engage critically and imaginatively with a text to expand the scope of their experience; analyse the structure of a text and how the features of a text infuence audience response; analyse the key ideas and issues explored in a text; consider how language can be used for aesthetic ends; develop and justify their own and other interpretations of a text; create a wide range of texts, make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions.
