As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.
Art | Grant Major | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Ngila Dickson | Costume Design |
Writing | Andrew Adamson | Screenplay |
Directing | Andrew Adamson | Director |
Production | Andrew Adamson | Producer |
Editing | Sim Evan-Jones | Editor |
Sound | Harry Gregson-Williams | Original Music Composer |
Production | Robin Scholes | Producer |
Production | Nikki Barrett | Casting |
Camera | John Toon | Director of Photography |
Production | Leslie Urdang | Producer |
Production | Dean Vanech | Producer |
Writing | Lloyd Jones | Novel |
Art | Megan Vertelle | Set Decoration |