Looking for Alibrandi (film)

Looking for Alibrandi
Directed byKate Woods
Written byMelina Marchetta
Based onLooking for Alibrandi
by Melina Marchetta
Produced byRobyn Kershaw
StarringPia Miranda
Kick Gurry
Anthony LaPaglia
Greta Scacchi
Elena Cotta
CinematographyToby Oliver
Edited byMartin Connor
Music bySilverchair
Killing Heidi
Lo-Tel
Production
companies
Distributed byBeyond Distribution[1]
Release date
  • 4 May 2000 (2000-05-04)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguagesEnglish
Italian
Budget$4.5 million[2]
Box office$8.3 million

Looking for Alibrandi is a 2000 Australian coming-of-age[3][4] film directed by Kate Woods and written by Melina Marchetta (which she adapted from her 1992 novel of the same name). The film is set in 1990s Sydney, New South Wales and features a cast of Australian actors, including Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, the film's main character; Anthony LaPaglia as her father, Michael Andretti, who left her and her mother before her birth; and Kick Gurry as Josie's love interest, Jacob Coote. The film won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film in 2000.

  1. ^ "Looking for Alibrandi (2000) - the Screen Guide - Screen Australia".
  2. ^ Fry, Catherine. "Looking for Alibrandi". Murdoch University. Archived from the original on 23 July 2001. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  3. ^ Speed, Lesley. "Looking For Alibrandi at 30: "No matter how far you run": Looking for Alibrandi and coming of age in Italo-Australian cinema and girlhood". Screening the past. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  4. ^ Marsh, Walter (7 July 2022). "Looking For Alibrandi at 30: 'There's a white-hot shame about sticking out'". Guardian Australia. Retrieved 11 April 2023.