The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will present a free online screening of Sunday Too Far Away at 6pm AEST on Friday 12 June 2020, the latest in its NFSA Live series of online events. Producer Matt Carroll will join NFSA Chief Curator Gayle Lake for a special Q&A after the online screening, to discuss the making of the film and its ongoing legacy.
Directed by Ken Hannam, Sunday Too Far Away follows a group of hard-working, hard-drinking sheep shearers in the shadow of the 1956 shearers’ strike. Foley (played by Jack Thompson) arrives at a new sheep station as the unbeaten ‘gun shearer’, but he must fight to keep his champion status.

Producer Matt Carroll said that Sunday Too Far Away is the film he’s “most proud” of having made.
“Sunday Too Far Away was a pivotal film for the re-emergence of Australian film production, as it was uncompromisingly an Australian story,” Mr Carroll commented “It is about a world that not many people had seen, but it’s part of our DNA as Australians.”

Sunday Too Far Away was the first film produced by the South Australian Film Corporation, filmed near Port Augusta in outback SA. Released in 1975 to commercial and critical success, Sunday Too Far Away is considered a landmark film in the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and ‘80s. In 2018 the NFSA completed a digital restoration of Sunday Too Far Away for its NFSA Restores program, which digitises and preserves classic Australian films.

Register now to be reminded before the screening starts. Alternatively, viewers can go directly here from 6pm AEST on 12 June.

Viewers will be able to ask questions for the Q&A via live chat on the night, or by Sunday To Far Away Q&A