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Dreaming in Motion - Turn Around: This is for me
Title:
Dreaming in Motion - Turn Around: This is for me
NFSA ID
610481
Year
2002
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Charlies and Glenni are in a bar, nearly broke and waiting for the car to be fixed. Glenni has an idea; she decides she will hustle some pool to make some money. During the game, Glennie overhears Charlie on the phone to the mysterious female stranger who he is pursuing. Angry at Charlie’s deception, Glenni takes a stand.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
A romantic comedy by Sam Saunders, Turn Around tells of the fantasy of a young man named Charlie (Wayne Munro) who goes to the city in pursuit of a woman he has met just once. Samantha Saunders refers to her film as a ‘girl fantasy’ and it is refreshing to have an all-Indigenous cast in a romantic comedy.
Other films in the AFC Indigenous Branch drama initiative Dreaming in Motion are Black Talk, Flat, Mimi and Shit Skin (all 2002).
Turn Around Synopsis
A romantic comedy about a young man who fantasises about a liaison with a stranger, yet fails to see the real woman before him.
Notes by Romaine Moreton
Production company
Spirited Films
Producer
Jenny Day
Director
Samantha Saunders
Writer
Samantha Saunders
Cast
Lisa Flanagan, Amy Miller-Porter, Wayne Munro
Acknowledgements
Produced with the assistance of the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.