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Feeling burnt out, director Tony Williams takes his seachange literally and sets off with three mates in his recently restored 66-foot motorboat, with a grown-up son as cameraman. The plan: journey from Sydney to the Coral Sea. They witness an eclipse, find paradise in Vanuatu, and island-hop their way through New Caledonian reefs, soon after witnessing French victory in the 1998 (soccer) World Cup. Near journey’s end, a reflective Williams realises that he has experienced not just a holiday, but also “an opportunity to look at your own world from a distance”.
Making the documentary was an after thought to the main drive of wanting to take a motor boat to the islands. The ABC encouraged the film to be made so we took along a mini DV digital video camera and covered the voyage as best we ...
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Television, 1974 (Full Length)
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Finalist - Most
Outstanding Website
The ONYAs 2010 & 2011
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2012
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Oliver Fleming
Posted at 12.41AM - 17.12.2010
Certainly one of the great adventures.
Safe too.