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Solo is a story about three people on the edge of nowhere, struggling to decide how much of themselves to share with those they care about. Young Australian hitchhiker Judy romances solo Dad Paul, who finds peace flying fire patrol planes above a North Island forest. Paul's precocious son (talented unknown Perry Armstrong) reacts badly to losing pole position to Judy and takes to the air. Inspired partly by the oft-painful times when we are "more acutely in touch” with our emotions, Tony Williams' ambitious romance helped launch the Kiwi movie renaissance.
The script was written in a month, and the budget of $140,000 raised in two months. We muddled along as best we could with grants, sponsorship, loans and goodwill. The film was a co-production with Channel 7 in Sydney, shot in 16mm and blown up to ...
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I actually went to Primary School with Perry Armstrong....I always wonder what ever happened to him :)
Is this movie avilable on DVD?
Id love to know who wrote the music for the film?
David Hannay - Tony Williams Productions
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Television, 1971 (Full Length)
Perry Armstrong was discovered in this earlier Tony Williams film
1978 Asian Film Festival
Most Outstanding Music
Finalist - Most
Outstanding Website
The ONYAs 2010 & 2011
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2012
This website has been made with funding from NZ ON AIR ›
Chris Reynolds
Posted at 04.49PM - 14.01.2012
I was the Makeup Artist, did hair dressing and wardrobe on this film. My memories are long, long, long hours, many reshoots, and working for 'mates rates'. The most hurtfull thing was the so called 'minor'crew not being invited to the premier - that is until we planned to turn up anyway and protest. Its still a pretty film with amazing cinemaphotography!