Girl Asleep (film)
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| Directed by | Rosemary Myers |
| Screenplay by | Matthew Whittet |
| Based on | Girl Asleep (play) by Matthew Whittet |
| Produced by | Jo Dyer |
| Starring | Bethany Whitmore Harrison Feldman Imogen Archer Tilda Cobham-Hervey Eamon Farren Matthew Whittet Amber McMahon Maiah Stewardson |
| Cinematography | Andrew Commis ACS |
| Edited by | Karryn de Cinque |
| Music by | Luke Smiles Harry Covill |
| Distributed by | Kojo Group |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | AU$1,500,000 |
| Box office | $211,637 |
Girl Asleep is a 2015 Australian surrealist coming-of-age drama film written by Matthew Whittet and directed by Rosemary Myers. The film has been described as an extroverted fantasy dreamscape of an introverted teenage girl. The film is an adaptation of the successful theatre production, also written by Matthew Whittet, by Windmill Theatre in 2014 of the same name, that premiered at the Adelaide Festival. The cast includes: Bethany Whitmore, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Imogen Archer, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren, scriptwriter Matthew Whittet and Maiah Stewardson.
Girl Asleep showed at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival to critical acclaim, and garnered the top prize at CinefestOZ, the richest film prize in Australia.