When wanting to meet thugs on a train, hero Harris favours Sydney's City Circle line.įilmed: The film was listed in the Cinema Papers, May 1997 production survey with the production dates of to. The featured half-way house was a mansion in Sydney’s harbourside eastern suburbs. Ltd.īudget: the FFC required the sixth 'film fund' productions to be under $2.5 million, but the Hollywood Film Festival awarded the film the prize for films with a budget over US$1 million, so it’s safe to assume the budget was at the top end within this range. Production company: Australian Film Finance Corporation, Imagine Films Pty Ltd presents script developed with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission, New South Wales Film & Television Office financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation Limited tail credit copyrights to Australian Film Finance Corporation Limited and Imagine Films Pty. (For the opening and closing voice overs and more cast details, see this site’s ‘about the film’ section). Winner of the prestigious Best Film price at the Hollywood Film Festival, The Sugar Factory is one of the most original and provocative films of this or any other year. And, in time, he exorcises his own demons and emerges from the catharsis an offbeat hero. In this close-knit, surrogate family, Harris is both a voice of rationality and protective saviour. He ends up at a half way house for troubled adolescents, run by a well-meaning psychologist named Sam (John Waters Breaker Morant, All the Rivers Run). Surprisingly, their love affair flourishes into an incredible bond until tragedy strikes, separating the two, sending Harris on a downward spiral. His only solace in all the madness is the love he harbours for Helen (Rhondda Findleton Love in Limbo), a single mother twice his age. Harris was not an average kid an at seventeen he’s still different. On the rear of the slick, there was a short synopsis:īased on Robert Carter’s best selling novel, The Sugar Factory is a powerful and uplifting drama that chronicles the journey of troubled teenager Harris Berne (Matt Day Kiss or Kill, Love and Other Catastrophes, Muriel’s Wedding). “‘… will entertain as well as shock” - Hobart Mercury “An extraordinary debut” - Ted Kotcheff, Hollywood Film Festival (Kotcheff will be fondly remembered for Wake in Fright) “You have never seen a film like The Sugar Factory … I was completely overwhelmed” - Punch U.K. Winner Best Film Hollywood Film Festival 1998 Konya Seker’s products, such as crystal sugar, cube sugar and brown sugar, which are in the packaged group, are offered to the consumers with “TORKU” brand.The original VHS release went the 'blurb and festival' option on the front cover with: The company increased the capacity of Cube Sugar and Crystal Sugar Packaging Facilities in Cumra Seker Integrated Facilities and began to produce different product groups at different weights and packages with new production lines, according to consumer trends. Offering the products, it produces, to the retail market directly and without any intermediaries with the marketing company it has established as well, also aims to convey this leadership to the retail market. In this framework, diversifying crystal sugar with such new products as liquid sugar, baklava and sweet sherbet, rock candy, medicine sugar, invert sugar and candy it produces, Konya Seker also ensured sugar beet market to expand. The largest sugar producers among private companies in Turkey, Konya Seker has assumed a pioneering role in the sugar sector of the country, in line with this position, and changed traditional production and marketing habits in the sector with the investments it made. Konya Seker, which renewed the technology of Konya Sugar Factory with the rehabilitation investment it made in 1954, completed Cumra Sugar Factory, whose foundations it laid in 2003 and is one of the most modern sugar factories in the world. Sugar beet production, which was the first subject of activity when it was founded is also currently the main subject of activity of the company and it produces more than one fifth of the sugar in the country with its two factories, consisting of Konya Sugar Factory with a 200 thousand tons per year capacity and Cumra Sugar Factory with 300 thousand tons per year capacity in our country, where 33 sugar factories produce sugar.