The oyster farmers is a feature length documentary that will premiere in the spring of 2017. Registered users can download videos in hd mp4 or hd divx. If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters. A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers. Bower bird films and nondscript is raising funds for oyster its about. All i can say is thank goodness, or as our coalition friends in the land of the free would say thank gud that it will now not.
Female oyster farmers in india and trout farmers in peru won two of the top three prizes awarded in this years women in the seafood industry wsi film competition. Oyster farming is structured to take advantage of the oysters biology and life cycle. Oyster farmer definition is one who raises oysters as a crop. Oyster farming is an aquaculture or mariculture practice in which oysters are bred and raised mainly for their pearls, shells and inner organ tissue, which is eaten. Oyster farmer is a sweet, gentle and meandering slice of life movie, set in a place where a good days work is valued above most everything else which fits in well with what they used to say. Knowing the ways of a small group of oyster farmers in australia and watching how they handle the wrong decisions of youth and normal everyday work, personal, and community life is just. Meanwhile, east coast shellfish production has doubled in the last five years, and at this point, he estimates at least 300 to 400 oyster brands each from a separate farmer exist on the. With alex oloughlin, jim norton, diana glenn, david field. Duxbury, massachusetts one hot sunny day last week, i drove to duxbury, massachusetts to find out how oysters grow. Who would have thought that a northern irish chef working in switzerland over 25 years ago would later create a festival here because he discovered he could cook and eat oysters farmed in northern ireland in switzerland but couldnt get them here. I sort of laughed at first because, a foreign film, from an englishspeaking country nonetheless, it looked interesting, and i made the long trip from long island to the quad cinema on th street and 5th avenue.
It takes 5 months to get these birds to market and receives a premium almost double that of non. Buddy mcclure, on the left sans rubber gloves and heavy duty rain gear. By october a local oyster farmer had installed our first 85mm diameter poles in. Jack soon learns that oyster farming is tough, physically punishing work, and while. The farmer anthony grows under the geographical indicator of bresse.
Meet the oyster farmer who is taking the taste of our shores back inland. Oyster farming icon jerry eiichi yamashita with some of his lifes work. Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient romans as early as the 1st century bc on the italian peninsula and later in britain for export to rome. After falling for a local girl and having runins with his boss and his exwife, jack hatches a plan to recover. The education of an oyster farmer high country news know the west menu. Oyster farmer 2005 is a food comedy, crime movie starring alex oloughlin and jim norton. Initially taking on backbreaking work as an oyster farmer to cover nikkis hospital bills, jack finds that he needs more cash than the job brings in. Oyster farmer is a 2004 australian romantic comedydrama film about a young man who runs away to the hawkesbury river and gets a job with.
Overview of oyster farmer, 2005, directed by anna reeves, with kerry armstrong, david field, jack thompson, at turner classic movies. Forum having just completed a bike ride from mannering park to lake. A delightfully winning comedy, oyster farmer is the story of jack flange, an enterprising young man, who robs a fish market and mails the cash to a secluded closeknit community of oyster farmers. The premium movie partnership, new south wales film and television office, anthony buckley films pty ltd and oyster farmer uk ltd. This documentary centers on coastal life in new jersey, specifically the barnegat bay, and even more specifically, on the eastern oyster. Oyster farmer is the film that in 2005 has reinvented the independent film industry in australia and now in its second week of release is proving to be a major success. Oyster farmer 2005 cast and crew jack flange alex olachlan, a native of sydney, loves the city life. I dont own any of it its meant as a compliment to this wonderful movie. The cultural and economic impact of the oyster, its historical decimation, and its recent re. The hawkesbury river on the northern fringe of sydneys metropolitan sprawl is a place of charm and mystery, history and romance and above all. Oyster farmer definition of oyster farmer by merriamwebster. By documenting a specific microcosm of a farming family on australias south east coast, oyster presents its audience with a story, a landscape, an environment and characters who face practical, ethical and personal decisions about things that matter to them feeding their family, getting the boys to school, running the farm, looking after the lake, keeping their crop of oysters healthy. I grew up and went to school here on bruny, then later went to school over on mainland tasmania. Film finances completion guarantor hw wood insurance as h.
Every character is likeable and uniquely quirky throughout this film. Just email some of the oyster farms around the country, i found several that were willing for an extra hand for a day or two. See more ideas about alex oloughlin, alex love and farmer. A young man has a hard time getting crime to pay better than honest work in this comedydrama from australia. Read about the oyster farmer dvd and browse other dvd movies. The ones set in rural areas often run to stylistic extremes, as with peter weirs the cars that ate paris or stephan elliotts welcome to woop woop. The education of an oyster farmer high country news. The national park service forced our oyster farm out of business, lunny. Former kiwi anna reeves and nz cinematographer alun bollinger delivers a small, slow moving, mildly funny, somewhat involving, australian drama. A special screening of the oyster farmer will be hosted by the. Oysters are also high in calcium, iron, and protein. A basic understanding of these topics will greatly improve the productivity and marketability of ones product. When the parcel goes missing, and the police start coming around, he suspects the precious package was found by one of his neighbors, a local beauty.
Toward the end of the film, jack is traveling northbound on a vseries train and says hes got to go back. Get shucked oysters has been a real bruny success story. Writerdirector anna reeves oyster farmer shapes up as a realistic drama about life among freshwater oyster farmers, a rough group of very likeable people. The french oyster industry has relied on aquacultured oysters since the late 18th. The locally directed 2004 film the oyster farmer will be screened in wagstaffe.
Only a small percentage of australian films receive american distribution. My destination was the island creek oyster farm, an oyster farm set in the cold, salty water of duxbury bay, about 30 minutes southeast of boston. Wsi s 2019 competition attracted 32 entries from 14 countries an 88 percent increase compared to 2018 making the international jurys job all the more challenging. This is the oyster farmers official trailer by oak leaf on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. When jack flange alex olachlan gets word that his sister nikki claudia harrison has been in a serious auto accident, he leaves his home in sydney and travels to the small seaside community where she lives. The film, completed a little more than a year ago, contained. Special screening of the oyster farmer central coast community.
Be still and know full movie kelsey steele, elizabeth potthast, kelly bartram, olivia arokiasamy duration. Admittedly, theyre not for everyone, but adventurous humans the world over have enjoyed oysters, raw and cooked, for thousands of years. This darkly humorous, sometimes even raunchy film mostly eludes a typical. A feature documentary film centering on oyster aquaculture in the barnegat bay. We spend time with a second generation oyster farming family as. Our polymer technicians began developing the bounceback r pole during 2018. Festival ploughs ahead as farmer takes the taste of. Female trout and oyster farmers star in seafood film prize.
Oyster its about protecting our waterways and estuaries. Money is tight for nikki, so jack looks for a job to help out. Jack flange leaves the big city for a respite in australias hawkesbury river region, where generations of oyster fishermen and maybe one woman have made a. It was written and directed by anna reeves, and stars alex oloughlin and diana glenn. This requires the birds to be grown free range in barns and can only be feed locally grown corn he grows his own. The movie pages presents oyster farmer oysterfarmer. For years ive slurped oysters from their shell with little knowledge of how these bivalves came. Screenshots from the movie oyster farmer with the beautiful music of the film. The obvious comparison for oyster farmer is peaches, another recent australian film set in a regional workfamily environment. Were excited about our involvement with a film coming to fruition, the oyster farmers. Jack olachlan robs money from a fish market, hides as an oyster farmer in a small town, and falls in love with pearl glenn, his bosss daughter. But when he learns his sister, nikki claudia harrison, is injured, he heads for her.
Oyster farmer 2004 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. When joe bennett took a punt on an oyster farm on tasmanias bruny island he couldnt have predicted how his pristine product would take off. Film documents immigrants rescue of states oyster industry. I must admit that, prior to the release of peaches and now the distinctly entertaining oyster farmer, i was dreading the thought that another extremely mundane, highly overrated film, three dollars was going to be the big thing at this years afi and if awards. Buddy mcclure, 44, harvests about 3,000 oysters daily during summers at umpqua aquaculture, a quiet fishing village on the coast of oregon. Oyster farmer is a 2004 australian romantic comedydrama film about a young man who runs away to the hawkesbury river and gets a job with eighthgeneration oyster farmers.