Based on "Jessica" by Bryce Courtenay, the screenplay was written by Peter Yeldham and directed by Peter Andrikidis. The miniseries stars Sir Sam Neill, Leeanna Walsman, Lisa Harrow, Tony Martin and John Howard.
Jessica (2004) won a 2005 Logie award for best mini-series or telemovie, plus two awards at the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival-one of them for the direction of Australian Peter Andrikidis.
Jessica (2004) is an Australian television miniseries based on the historical novel by Bryce Courtenay. Originally broadcast by Australia's Network Tenin 2004 and set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalized.