Channel Chaos

Channel Chaos
Directed by Barry Peak
Produced by Chris Kiely
Written by Barry Peak
Chris Kieley
Starring Jay Hackett
Tim Scally
Lyn Semmler
Cinematography Malcolm Richards
Production
company
Hatful Productions
Distributed by THG Video (video)
Release dates
1985
Running time
90 mins
Country Australia
Language English
Budget A $400,000[1]

Channel Chaos is a 1985 Australian film set at a TV station.[2]

Plot

The actors of the TV series Copfile investigate when their scriptwriter is killed.

Production

The film was the second of four movies made by the team of Barry Peak and Chris Kiely who ran the Valhalla Cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne. The movie was known in production as A Hatful of Arseholes and the budget was raised through 10BA. Peak and Kiely hated the movie when they finished and decided not to screen it in their own cinema.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p334-225
  2. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p25

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