Bootmen is a 2000 Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n comedy-drama film, directed by Dein Perry

Dein Perry

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. It was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures

Fox Searchlight Pictures

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 in Canada and USA and 20th Century Fox Distribution in Australia and funded by the Australian Film Finance Corporation. Production was from 19 June to 18 August 1999 in Sydney

Sydney

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 and Newcastle

Newcastle, New South Wales

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 by cinematographer Steve Mason who won two cinematography awards in the 2000 AFI awards and the 2001 FCCA Awards.