Most recently he was seen on stage in The Season, as part of the 2017 Sydney Festival. In 2013, Trevor starred in the stage adaption of Storm Boy as Fingerbone Bill, in both Sydney and Perth as well as The Secret River. He was also nominated in 2010 for Namatjira, which Trevor also performed at Southbank, London in 2013. Starring in over 30 theatre productions, in 2008 Trevor won the Sydney Theatre Awards best actor going for his acclaimed production Napartji Napartji- a personal, multilingual, family story that he conceived and developed with Scott Rankin and Alex Kelly. Consistently working across both TV and film, he has also starred in the AACTA award winning series Cleverman and the AACTA and Logie award winning series' The Secret River and Lockie Leonard. An award winning actor across theatre, film and TV, he is also a didgeridoo player, guitarist, singer and storyteller.įirst seen on the screen in 1994 in the TV mini-series Heartland with Cate Blanchett, Trevor went on to star in Phillip Noyce's Golden Globe nominated Rabbit-Proof Fence and Rachael Perkins' Bran Nue Dae. And there’s a nice cameo from David Gulpilil which provides a link to the original film.Born in Subiaco, Western Australia, Trevor Jamieson is an incredibly multi-talented artist. Rush is mannered and understated, but he looks a little uncomfortable here. Trevor Jamieson (who played the same role in the recent stage version) brings an air of mystery to his role as Fingerbone Bill, the wise Aboriginal man who teaches Michael some valuable lessons. Newcomer Little has charm, sensitivity and an appealing presence as the young Michael, and his natural performance captures the joy and adventure of childhood. There are some nice performances here, with Jai Courtney ( The Exception) particularly stoic and reserved as Michael’s reclusive father Tom. This is only the second feature film for director Shawn Seet (Two Fists, One Heart) who hails from a background in television, having worked on series like Underbelly, The Code and Love Child. Audiences will be captivated by the cute antics of the birds. It is the story about the friendship between the young Michael (played by newcomer Finn Little) and the pelicans that gives the film its heart and soul. Whereas the original story delivered its environmental messages with subtlety, this new version of Storm Boy delivers them with all the subtlety of a jackhammer. He reaches out to his 17-year-old granddaughter Madeline (Morgana Davies), a passionate advocate for the environment, and tells her of his childhood and the lessons he learned from his friendship with Mr Percival.Ĭue lots of extended flashbacks to his childhood. On the eve of a crucial board vote to approve the sale of a tract of family farmland to allow the expansion of mining interests, Michael wrestles with his conscience. He has since retired and left the running of the company to his son-in-law Malcolm (Erik Thomson). Michael Kingley became a multi-millionaire business man who ran a large pastoral corporation, a concept that jars somewhat with his youthful self. But for some reason, the producers and screenwriter Justin Monjo (who hails from a background in television having worked on series such as Farscape, and who also wrote Jungle for Greg McLean) have seen fit to include a clumsy framing device that centres around Michael as an old man (played now by Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush). This remake aims to introduce this timeless story to a whole new generation of film goers. Storm Boy also incorporated some wonderful themes about grief, father-son relationships, and the environment. He formed a special bond with the bird he christened Mr Percival, who became his best, and only friend, of his lonely childhood. Michael took the three birds back to their rustic shack and with the help of a local Aboriginal and his father nursed the birds back to health and raised them. One day he found three baby pelicans left orphaned after local hunters, opposed to the establishment of a bird sanctuary, had shot their mother. Adapted from Colin Thiele’s beloved 1964 novella, Storm Boy told the story of Michael, a young boy who lived along an isolated stretch of the South Australian coast with his emotionally scarred and widowed fisherman father Tom. Henry Safran’s 1976 film of Storm Boy was a heartfelt classic from the period of the re-emergence of the Australian film industry and it touched a generation of filmgoers. ![]() ![]() Coming-of-age stories about the unconventional but uplifting friendship between children and animals have been a staple of cinema for years.
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