TV series
Marking Time
2003 · 1 season
A tender, quietly wrenching coming-of-age romance set against harsh refugee politics, leaving a lingering ache.
- Created by
- Cherie Nowlan
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Abe Forsythe, Geoff Morrell, Elena Carapetis
- Overview
- Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia. The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest, tense and romantic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, immigration, coming-of-age, family
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Cherie Nowlan
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Abe Forsythe, Geoff Morrell, Elena Carapetis
