The deli from which Frances purchases cigarettes is located at 41 First Avenue, Semaphore Park, Adelaide, Australia. Specifically, it is located on the northern corner of First Avenue and Sansom Road.
Executive producer for Goalpost Pictures Australia, Rosemary Blight, read
Georgia Blain's acclaimed novel Closed For Winter in 1998 and shared her
passion for the book with writer-director James Bogle and producer Ben Grant.
Blight was producer of Bogle's earlier film, 'In The Winter Dark' (1998), and felt the darkly
emotional and poetic story was idea material for Bogle to adapt for cinema.
This film was produced by Goalpost's Ben Grant in association with
Kojo Pictures' Kent Smith who were the movie's two head producers.
Producer Ben Grant said he had always wanted to work with director James Bogle and the
process of working on 'Closed for Winter' created a strong bond between the two
filmmakers.
Producer Ben Grant was determined to secure finance and make this picture. He said: "This film has
subjects and issues that are taboo. It was a very difficult film to get up and to
and convince people that a film about a child that goes missing and a woman's
journey to try and deal with that twenty years later would be of interest."