Travelling North Film Festival awarded the Best Actor award to Leo McKern. "Travelling North" grossed $1,464,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $2,942,640 in 2009 dollars. Travelling North Travelling North is a 1987 film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Leo McKern, Julia Blake, and Graham Kennedy. Based on an original 1979 play of the same name by David Williamson, it is one of Williamson's favourite movies based on his works. An aged couple decide to move from Melbourne to north Queensland. The David Williamson play "Travelling North" premiered in 1979, the year that Williamson moved from Melbourne
Adam Zwar Cairns, Queensland where he was subsequently raised. His parents bought the family home from actor Leo McKern. Zwar is the son of author Desmond Zwar, who wrote the best-selling book "The Loneliest Man in the World" about Rudolf Hess. Zwar's mother Delphine was a longtime writer for the "House and Garden" magazine. From the age of thirteen, Zwar attended Smithfield High School and Brisbane Grammar School where he captained the cross country team in his senior year. After high school, he completed a journalism degree at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. He subsequently began studying acting as well.