Phobia (1988 film)

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Phobia
Directed by John Dingwall
Written byJohn Dingwall
Produced byJohn Mandelberg
Starring Gosia Dobrowolska
Sean Scully
Release date
  • 1988 (1988)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetAU$120,000 [1]

Phobia is a 1988 Australian film written and directed by John Dingwall. [2]

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Cast

Production

Dingwall wanted to make the film for as low a budget as possible so wrote it around two characters and one location. He wrote the script in a week. [3]

Paul Thompson was meant to star opposite Gosia Dobrowolska but he dropped out of the project at the least moment and was replaced by Sean Scully. Dingwall mortgaged his house to pay for the budget himself. The film was shot over three weeks in February and March 1988 with a week of rehearsal using a young crew. [1]

Release

The film struggled to obtain a release. [1]

It was released via SBS and all the crew were paid their deferments.

It was nominated for Sean Scully as Best Actor at the AFI awards in 1988.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 pp. 101–102
  2. Ross Harley, ""Phobia", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p. 299
  3. Andrew L Urban, "John Dingwall: The Custodian", Cinema Papers, October 1993 pp. 22–26