Epsilon (1997)

Country of Origin: Australia / Italy
Year of Production: 1997
Running Times: 92 mins
Format: colour
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby Stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Digital Arts / Fandango / Psilon Pty
Funding: The Australian Film Finance Corporation
Producers: Domenico Procacci, Rolf de Heer
Co-Producer: Giuseppe Pedersoli
Line Producer: Sharon Jackson

SCRIPT
Script: Rolf de Heer

DIRECTION
Director: Rolf de Heer

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Tony Clark
Film Stock: Kodak
Lab: Atlab Film Laboratory Service

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Tania Nehme
Assistant Editor: Lindy Astin

MUSIC
Music: Graham Tardif

SOUND
Sound: John Simpson, Peter D. Smith, Yvonne Van Gyen

VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects Supervisor: Roger Cowland
Motion Control System: Digital Arts

MISCELLANEOUS
Post-Production Accountant: Trudy Talbot

CASTING
Casting: Audine Leith

CAST
Ullie Birve (she)
Syd Brisbane (the man)
Alethea McGrath (grandmother)
Chloe Ferguson, Phoebe Ferguson (children)

PLOT SUMMARY

A female alien from the planet Epsilon comes to Earth in Australian outback and encounters a young man out hiking. They fall in love but the alien is unhappy about being stranded on Earth and she tries to get her new lover to see why the rest of life in universe hates Mankind for its self-destructive ways.

AVAILABILITY

Australia
Theatrical Distributors: Roadshow Film Distributors

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Miramax Films
DVD Distributor: Walt Disney Home Video (20767)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: PG-13 (for brief graphic nudity)

AWARDS

1995
Australian Film Institute, Australia
Best Achievement in Cinematography (Tony Clark) - nominated

TIMELINE

1997
January
23: Australia – theatrical release

April
7: Singapore – shown at the Singapore International Film Festival

2000
September
19: USA - DVD release (Walt Disney Home Video (20767))

2001
July
14: Australia - shown at the Melbourbe Underground Film Festival, Retrospective of Australian Cult Cinema

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Alien Visitor

KEYWORDS

aliens, ecology, the outback

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009