Georgia Flood as Alice behind the scenes of Anzac Girls. .A Screentime production for ABC TV.
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While writer-producer Felicity Packard was researching an ABC WW1 drama, she made a shocking discovery: More than 3,700 Australian and New Zealand nurses served overseas during the war- but only seven were awarded military medals.
The reason for that anomaly is one of the recurring themes of Anzac Girls, a six-hour series based on real people and events at the Western Front and Gallipoli, which premieres at 8.30 pm on Sunday August 10.
Packard believes the Australian Army refused to honour the nurses because officers were opposed to young women being involved in the war.
.The Army was quite hostile to them,. Packard tells If. This attitude is personified in the show by Colonel Thomas Fiaschi (John Waters), who, she says, .was obstructionist and critical of the nurses.. Those medals were awarded to people of .other ranks,...
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While writer-producer Felicity Packard was researching an ABC WW1 drama, she made a shocking discovery: More than 3,700 Australian and New Zealand nurses served overseas during the war- but only seven were awarded military medals.
The reason for that anomaly is one of the recurring themes of Anzac Girls, a six-hour series based on real people and events at the Western Front and Gallipoli, which premieres at 8.30 pm on Sunday August 10.
Packard believes the Australian Army refused to honour the nurses because officers were opposed to young women being involved in the war.
.The Army was quite hostile to them,. Packard tells If. This attitude is personified in the show by Colonel Thomas Fiaschi (John Waters), who, she says, .was obstructionist and critical of the nurses.. Those medals were awarded to people of .other ranks,...
- 7/27/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
A 4-part ABC documentary will examine how the First World War changed the country, its soldiers and their families, nurses and people who opposed the war.
The producer of The War That Changed Us, Electric Pictures. Andrew Ogilvie, originally envisioned the program as an international co-production between the ABC, the BBC and PBS stations in the Us.
But Ogilvie says the ABC wanted a film which reflected a uniquely Australian perspective without having to comply with the demands of international broadcasters.
It.s now in production under the auspices of the ABC/Screen Australia National Documentary Program, supported by Screen West and the Department of Veterans. Affairs.
Director Don Featherstone (Kokoda, Singapore 1942 End of Empire) has filmed interviews with 10 Australian historians and .atmospheric. footage of battlefields in Europe including the Western Front, and Gallipoli.
In November co-director James Bogle will film dramatic re-enactments revolving around five individuals: a high-ranking officer,...
The producer of The War That Changed Us, Electric Pictures. Andrew Ogilvie, originally envisioned the program as an international co-production between the ABC, the BBC and PBS stations in the Us.
But Ogilvie says the ABC wanted a film which reflected a uniquely Australian perspective without having to comply with the demands of international broadcasters.
It.s now in production under the auspices of the ABC/Screen Australia National Documentary Program, supported by Screen West and the Department of Veterans. Affairs.
Director Don Featherstone (Kokoda, Singapore 1942 End of Empire) has filmed interviews with 10 Australian historians and .atmospheric. footage of battlefields in Europe including the Western Front, and Gallipoli.
In November co-director James Bogle will film dramatic re-enactments revolving around five individuals: a high-ranking officer,...
- 10/17/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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