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Sean Nicholls and Emily Dunn
September 9, 2009
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A FILM telling the story of the British child migration scheme will
be the latest big-screen project to spruik South Australia as a tourist
destination. Oranges and Sunshine will tell the story of Margaret
Humphreys,
a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered a stolen generation of
children who were transported in the 1950s from orphanages in Britain
to Australia where lodging was cheaper. In the late 1980s Humphreys
reunited families and brought worldwide attention to the story. Oranges
and Sunshine is among the latest projects to be approved for
funding from Screen Australia and already names including British
actress Emily Watson have been tipped for the lead role with
Australian actors Hugo Weaving and David Wenham among the
rumoured co-stars. The South
Australian Government is understood to have also chipped in for the
film, which will follow other projects shot in the state, including the
Cannes Camera d'Or winning Samson & Delilah, Rachel Ward's
directorial debut Beautiful Kate and the yet-to-be-released
Scott Hicks film The Boys are Back. The film is an initiative
of See Saw Films, a company formed last year by the Sydney producer Emile
Sherman (co-producer of Candy)
and focusing on Australian and British co-productions. The story of the
migration scheme was also dramatised in the 1992 television mini-series
The Leaving of Liverpool.
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