Elspeth Ballantyne

Elspeth Ballantyne

Nascimento : 1939-04-20, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Elspeth Ballantyne
Elspeth Ballantyne

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Boronia Backpackers
Maxine Daniels
Picks up on the journey of the 'Boronia Boys' gang from sleepy Boronia to the big wide world.
Boronia Boys
Maxine
Kane and Darren are two 'rag and bone men' who have lived in the outer suburb of Boronia all their lives. Now as they approach their early thirties, they decide that it is time to leave their comfortable suburb and travel the world for the first time. In order to do so the 'boronia boys' follow hard rubbish collections and help themselves to discarded rubbish and sell them overpriced at trash & treasure markets.
Moonlight & Magic
Desma
On the 15th of January 2005, two homeless punks commenced a whirlwind spree of bizarre crimes throughout regional Victoria in Australia. They held up op shops and milk bars, abducted nudists and delinquents, pelted eggs at men and attacked women with salad tongs. Their existence baffled the police and their peculiar and indecent crimes slowly gave them cult status, where they became notoriously known as the legendary "Belgrave Bandits".
The Caterpillar Wish
Mrs. Woodbridge
A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
Three Dollars
Eddie's Mother
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
Selkie
Loopy Laura
Teenager Jamie moves with his mother, sister and grandfather to an island off the South Australian coast where mum has a job running a marine research station. To his discomfort, Jamie discovers he`s a "selkie" - half human, half seal - that explains the webbing on his hands and also why he changes completely into a seal as soon as he hits water.
One Way Ticket
Elizabeth
Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murder and looks like he will be spending the rest of his days behind bars before he has an affair with a female guard. She helps him escape and they spend the next few days on the run. Can they make it?
Blowing Hot and Cold
Shelagh MacBean
The story of two men from opposite backgrounds and social structures who become friends. Jack Phillips is a laid-back, wry service station proprietor in a small Australian country town. His world is disrupted when a fast talking, gesticulating, vocal Italian, Nino Patrovita bursts upon the scene.
Captain Johnno
Mrs. Greenwood
A young deaf boy who calls himself "Captain Johnno" befriends Tony, an Italian fisherman in the small Australian fishing town they live in. Both feel outcast by the town and both share a great love of the sea. When Johnno's beloved sister leaves to go to boarding school, he is so upset he runs away to an island hiding place, causing much distress in the town. His friend Tony helps him understand how much he is loved and missed by the townsfolk and his family.
Breakfast in Paris
Millie
Fashion executive Jackie Wyatt discovers her boyfriend has been cheating on her. She flies to Paris and bumps into photographer Michael who she at first dislikes but grows to love.
Blue Fin
Mrs. Pascoe
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Life in Australia: Melbourne
This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s.