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Sweetie

Year of completion
1989
Content type
Narrative Content
Format
Feature
Genre
Comedy
Duration
97 minutes
Production Status
Completed

Synopsis

'Sweetie' is impulsive, untidy, a fat adolescent who with her capricious demands, voracious sensuality, enormous appetite, terrifying rages, thirst for love and inexhaustible energy manages to turn her sister's well-ordered life upside down.
Completion Year
1989
Genres
Comedy
Format
Feature
Production Status
Completed

Cast and Crew

Composer

Martin Armiger

Director of Photography

Sally Bongers

Director

Jane Campion

Writer

Jane Campion, Gerard Lee

Production Designer

Peter Harris

Editor

Veronika Haussler

Producer

Billy MacKinnon, John Maynard

Cast

Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Jon Darling

Awards

1991 — Amercian Independent Film Awards

1990 — Los Angeles Film Critics Awards

1990 — Ministry For The Arts

1990 — Film Critics' Circle of Australia

1990 — Film Critics' Circle of Australia

1990 — Film Critics' Circle of Australia

1989 — Australian Film Institute

Screenings

1989 — Boston International Film Fest

1991 — Centre Georges Pompidou, Australian - Pompidou Event

1989 — Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani

1990 — De Cine Y Video Realizado Por Mujeres

1990 — International Film Festival Of India

1994 — Ljubljana International Film Festival

1991 — Moscow International Film Festival

1989 — Montreal World Film Festival

1984 — Montreal World Film Festival

1989 — New York Film Festival

1999 — Popcorn FilmFest Stockholm

1989 — Seattle Women's Film Festival

1990 — San Francisco International Film Festival

1995 — Strictly Oz - A History of Australian Film

1996 — Strictly Oz - A History of Australian Film - UCLA

1997 — Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival

1993 — Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

1989 — Vancouver International Film Festival

1992 — Verona Film Festival

1990 — Wellington Film Festival

2000 — Winfemme Film Festival

1989 — Edinburgh International Film Festival

1989 — Australian Film Institute

1989 — Cannes Film Festival

1989 — Cork International Film Festival

1999 — Creteil Film Des Femmes Festival

1990 — Creteil Film Des Femmes Festival

2007 — Goteborg Film Festival

1990 — Goteborg Film Festival

1989 — Goteborg Film Festival

1990 — Hong Kong International Film Festival

1989 — Hof International Film Festival

1996 — Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

1990 — International Film Festival Rotterdam

1989 — Sao Paulo International Film Festival

1990 — Sundance Film Festival

2009 — Toronto International Film Festival

1989 — Toronto International Film Festival

1989 — Uppsala International Short Film Festival

2025 — Melbourne International Film Festival

1989 — BFI London Film Festival

2023 — The Sydney Film Festival

2019 — The Sydney Film Festival

Sales

Australian Sales

International Sales

Indigo Films UK

Production Company

Arenafilm Pty Ltd

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