Big Dreamers Explained

Big Dreamers
Director:	Camille Hardman
Producer:	Camille Hardman John Fink
Music:	Neill Duncan
Cinematography:	Camille Hardman
Editing:	Jane St Vincent Welch Peter Barton
Distributor:	BarkingCat Productions
Runtime:	55 minutes
Country:	Australia

Big Dreamers is a 55-minute documentary film showcasing the Big Things of Australia. Directed by Camille Hardman, and produced by Camille Hardman and John Fink, Big Dreamers features the construction of The Biggest Gumboot in the world in Tully, in far North Queensland.

Plot

Tully was a prosperous town in tropical north Queensland, until Brazil dumped its sugar surplus on the global market. The locals call a meeting to save the town from financial disaster. Ron Hunt stands up and proposes to build The World's Biggest Gumboot in honour of Tully's rainfall record of 7.98 metres in 1950.

Ron declares the Big Golden Gumboot will put Tully on the map, so he and the local Rotary Club hire out-of-towner Bryan Newell to build the edifice. Tully's local artist and fellow Rotarian. Roger Chandler is not pleased. The cost of the boot blows out to $90,000, and the construction is endlessly delayed by rain.

Personalities clash, and Ron wonders whether he has made the right decision.

Dispersed throughout the main narrative are small vignettes highlighting other Big Things around Australia.

Cast

Ron Hunt – Rotarian
Bryan Newell – Boot builder
Roger Chandler – Local Artist
Tip Byrne – Mayor of Tully
Sera & Cerrino Qualiata – Cane Farmers
Rotary Club of Tully
Townsfolk of Tully
Kevin Rubie – The Big Banana, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
Eric Peltz – The Big Lobster, Kingston SE, South Australia
Fred Glasbrenner – The Big Abalone, Laverton North, Victoria
Dianne & Roger Venning – The Big Galah, Kimba, South Australia
Joyce Peterson – The Big Orange, Gayndah, Queensland
Fran Myors – The Big Koala, Phillip Island, Victoria
Jim Mauger – The Big Potato, Robertson, New South Wales

Awards

Winner, 2007 Award of Excellence – Videography^[1]

Film festivals

Big Dreamers featured in a number of Film Festivals worldwide Including:

2007 SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, Washington, USA
2007 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Arkansas, USA^[2]
2007 Melbourne International Film Festival, Victoria, Australia^[3]
2007 Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia^[4]
2007 Kansas International Film Festival, Kansas City, USA
2007 Palm Beach International Film Festival, Florida, USA
2007 deadCENTER Film Festival, Oklahoma, USA^[5]
2007 Byron Bay International Film Festival, NSW, Australia
2007 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana, USA^[6]
2007 Dungog Film Festival, Dungog, Australia
2008 Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, USA^[7]
2008 Cork International Film Festival, Cork, Ireland^[8]

External links

Notes and References

Web site: The Accolade Competition . 6 October 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081019053354/http://www.accoladecompetition.org/Video/Excell.aspx . 19 October 2008 . dead.
http://www.hsdfi.org/ Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Web site: Melbourne International Film Festival . 66.216.93.179 . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080721092401/http://66.216.93.179/2007/film?film_id=8662 . 21 July 2008 . dead.
http://www.revelationfilmfest.org/index.cfm?objectid=EC054BF3-65BF-EBC1-25A8C74A66B6C37D&navid=D9761779-C09F-1F3C-C809B0FDEF313ED9/ Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Web site: deadCENTER Film Festival . 6 October 2008 . https://archive.today/20120708105209/http://deadcenter.bside.com/2007/?_view=_filmdetails&filmId=19400653 . 8 July 2012 . dead.
http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/selections_feature.html/ Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Web site: Wisconsin Film Festival . 6 October 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080921080003/http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/films.php?FilmID=156 . 21 September 2008 . dead.
http://www.corkfilmfest.org/ccff/documentaries/docspage1.php?page=1/ Cork Film Festival