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Lucky Miles is an Australian comedy/drama feature film based on several true stories involving people entering Australia illegally along the continent's coastline. Its director was Michael James Rowland

Michael James Rowland

- The early years :Prior to his screen career, Michael James Rowland studied graphic design at the North Adelaide School of Art in South Australia and started his early working life as a designer / illustrator specialising in the Arts. His list of freelance clients grew to include Sony , Womad ...

and its producers were Jo Dyer and Lesley Dyer

Lesley Dyer

Lesley Dyer is an Australian film producer, living in Los Angeles. Together with producer Jo Dyer she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for Lucky Miles, and they won Best Producers at the Asian Festival of First Films....

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Reviews of the film were featured in Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

, The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

and The Advertiser.
Lucky Miles premiered on opening night of the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival

Adelaide Film Festival

The Adelaide Film Festival is a biennial and non-competitive film festival held over two weeks in late February, in Adelaide, South Australia....

. A few weeks later, Lucky Miles won the audience award for Best Film at the 2007 Sydney Film Festival

Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the Australian city of Sydney and is held over 12 days in June. The competitive film festival draws international and local attention, with films being showcased in several venues across the city centre and includes features,...