The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce is a 2008 Australian film directed by Michael James Rowland starring Irish actors Adrian Dunbar as Philip Conolly and Ciaran McMenamin as Alexander Pearce . The film was shot on location in Tasmania and Sydney in April and May 2008.
The film was nominated in the Best Drama category of the 6th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards and director Michael James Rowland was nominated in the Best Director (Telemov...
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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce is a 2008 Australian film directed by Michael James Rowland starring Irish actors Adrian Dunbar as Philip Conolly and Ciaran McMenamin as Alexander Pearce . The film was shot on location in Tasmania and Sydney in April and May 2008.
The film was nominated in the Best Drama category of the 6th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards and director Michael James Rowland was nominated in the Best Director (Telemovie) category in the 2009 Australian Directors Guild Awards .
Producer and co-writer Nial Fulton began developing The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce in Ireland in 1998 and production began on the project in Australia in the summer of 2006. The film was inspired by the story of an escape from the Sarah Island penal settlement in Macquarie Harbour, Van Diemen's Land in 1822 by Irish convict Alexander Pearce and the subsequent confession he made to the Hobart priest Phillip Conolly days before he was executed for the murder of fellow convict...
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