This film's closing credits declare that this movie was: "Filmed on location in Cooper Pedy and Adelaide, South Australia". The spelling of the famous South Australian opal mining town is incorrect and should have read "Coober Pedy".
This movie was filmed on location in Adelaide and Coober Pedy in South Australia between August and October of 2004 in a production shoot that ran for about eight weeks.
This picture was supported by BBC Films and the UK Film Council's Premiere Fund in association with the South Australian Film Corporation. The film is an Academy Features and Sherman Pictures Production. The film was distributed in Australia by Icon Films whilst the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] held the UK rights.
The film was made and first released about six years after its source novella 'Pobby and Dingan' by Ben Rice had been first published in the year 2000.
The movie's source novella 'Pobby and Dingan' by Ben Rice won the Somerset Maughan Award in 2001.