TICKETS
to Modern-Day Castaway Film Screening & Talk
Students at CHILD prices (show student ID at door)
THE FILM is an 85 minute adventure documentary detailing Michael Atkinson’s (Outback Mike) epic 1500km journey up the Great Barrier Reef in a home-mode dugout canoe to escape the historic predicament of an 1846 shipwreck survivor.
THE TALK: Mike gives a 25 minute talk / Q&A afterwards about what happened behind-the-scenes.
🧑🧑🧒🧒 RATED M (course language): If your kids are aged 10 and up and can handle some swearing it’s a good film to give them the sense of real adventure.
NSW
Sydney – Avalon
(The Deep North Festival)
5:15pm, Saturday 6th Dec 2025
Expect further screenings in NSW, VIC, ACT and TAS in 2026.
Previous screenings in 2025
QLD: Goldcoast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Mt Morgan (near Rockhampton), Mackay, Bowen, Townsville, Innisfail, Cairns, Cooktown, Mt Isa.
NT: Darwin.
WA: Broome, Port Hedland, Newman, Gladstone, Perth, Busselton, Esperance.
SA: Port Lincoln, Adelaide, Mt Barker, Victor Harbor.
NSW: Sydney