Summerfield (film)

Summerfield is a 1977 Australian film, directed by Ken Hannam, written by Cliff Green who wrote the screenplay for Picnic At Hanging Rock and produced by Patricia Lovell who produced Picnic At Hanging Rock. It stars Nick Tate, Elizabeth Alexander, John Waters, Charles Bud Tingwell, Max Fairchild and Geraldine Turner. Summerfield was filmed on location on Phillip Island and Churchill Island in Victoria.

Cliff Green wrote the script for Peter Weir however he was busy on The Last Wave 1977 so Ken Hannam was hired instead. The budget was raised within three weeks from the Australian Film Commission, Greater Union, the Victorian Film Corporation who put in 76,500 and private investors. These were essentially the same parties who invested in Break of Day 1976.Shooting took place at the town of Cowes on Philip Island and around Western Port Bay Victoria startingFebruary 1977. ........

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