Subject: 'austraLasia # 382

YOUNG MOVIE-MAKERS GALA PREMIERE

William Matthews sdb

MELBOURNE: 16th July -- Melbourne's mid-winter weather was a gorgeous 14 centigrade! Ferntree Gully, that archetypically Australian-named setting for 'Everywhere You Go' was green as green - and the nearby Alexander Theatre was festooned in Blue and Yellow balloons, the school colours of the Salesians' St. Joseph's College. For this was the night of the Gala Premiere of one of Australia's most recently successful amateur movies with professional effect. The two final year students', Peter Cole and Quinton Bloxham's, moment of stardom had arrived.

Melbourne's Channel 9 and Peter Hitchener had spoken of the Movie the night before on Prime Time television. It is a 'solid story' as one movie-goer put it. 'No extra or unnecessary stuff. Well presented. What a movie!'. Other celebrities present for the premiere expressed their wonder at the two boys' stunning achievement - the moving tale of a boy gone bad then brought back by caring people ran for an hour and ten minutes. The College principal, Vincent Feeney, outlined the role of the school in terms of support offered and made it clear that the College looked after its young ones.