Sons of Steel
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Sons of Steel is an Australian sience fiction/fantasy, musical, movie written, directed and music directed by Gary L. Keady and produced by James M. Vernon. The film is based on an original short called "Knightmare", written, co-directed and music directed by Gary L. Keady and co-directed by Yahoo Serious
Yahoo Serious
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. Gary Keady developed the script for Sons of Steel from the short film, and the feature was shot in 1988. The film had a box office release in 1989. Gary Keady and Nicholas Huxley won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) nomination for "best costume design" for Sons of Steelin 1989, and the film was nominated for best original Australian soundtrack at the 1989 Australian Record Industry Awards.

The film is set in Australia, where an accidental future time traveler finds himself going back in time to change events to prevent a calamity. It stars Rob Hartley as Black Alice
Black Alice
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 (who performed most of the songs for the movie) and Australian musician Jeff Duff
Jeff Duff
Geoff "Jeff" Stephen Duff, or Duffo, is one of Australia's most eccentric performers; he began his musical career in Melbourne in 1971 as lead singer of jazz-rock fusion band Kush, and later fronted various self-named groups. Duff relocated to London in 1978 as "the waif-like androgynous oddball...

(who sang "The Burn").

Sons of Steel premiered at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and was released in thirty two countries. It won official selection at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film and was a finalist at the Festival of the Imagination, Clermont Ferrand, France in 1989.

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