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Brilliant Creatures
- Year of completion
- 2014
- Content type
- Documentary
- Format
- Series
- Genre
- Arts, Culture, History, Society
- Duration
- 2 x 58 minute episodes
- Production Status
- Completed
Synopsis
BRILLIANT CREATURES is a two-part documentary series focusing on four Australians – satirist Barry Humphries, art critic Robert Hughes, writer Germaine Greer and writer and broadcaster Clive James – who left Australia in the 1960s and became cultural icons, and sometimes iconoclasts, in London and New York. To describe and dissect their individual and collective stories, who better as a tour guide than Man Booker Prize–winner Howard Jacobson, who first recognised them as a powerful intellectual force when he met them some 50 years ago.
Cast and Crew
Director
Paul ClarkeWriter
Howard JacobsonEditor
Mark MiddisCast
Howard JacobsonScreen Australia Supported
Production
Development
Screenings
2014 — Sheffield DocFest
Series
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International Sales
TCB Media RightsProduction Company
Mint Pictures Pty LtdSerendipity Productions Pty Ltd
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