Marking Time
| Marking Time | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | John Doyle |
| Starring | Abe Forsythe Bojana Novakovic Geoff Morrell Elena Carapetis |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Production | |
| Producers | John Edwards Jo Rooney |
| Running time | 230 min |
| Production company | Southern Star Group |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 9 November 2003 |
Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Government of Australia' refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia.
The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton.