The Office Picnic
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Writer Tom Cowan Language English | 6.7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Duration Country Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 17 November 1972 (1972-11-17) Initial release November 17, 1972 (Australia) Producers Tom Cowan, Richard Brennan Cast Similar movies Road to Nhill (1997), Mullet (2001), Me - Myself - I (1999), My Mother Frank (2000), Clubland (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Office Picnic is a 1972 Australian comedy film directed by Tom Cowan. It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Plot summary
A group of public servants go on an annual picnic. Two of them, Peter and Elly, disappear.
Cast
Production
Cowan got the idea to make the film while walking through the bush during shooting of a documentary in the Victorian countryside. He says he was also influenced by the novels of Patrick White and the films of Antonioni.
The film was shot on 35mm using a budget in part funded by the Experimental Film and Television Fund. It started in January 1972 but the money ran out during filming and there was a hiatus until filming resumed in April. The shoot took fifteen days in all.
Release
The film was successfully previewed at Toorak and for a time it looked as though it would be distributed by British Empire Films but in the end most commercial screenings were arranged by the director.
References
The Office Picnic WikipediaThe Office Picnic IMDb