Cameras are rolling on Kangaroo, an Australian family comedy inspired by the true story of an Alice Springs game reserve.
Ryan Coe (House of the Dragon, Catching Dust, Holding the Man) is stranded in an outback town after a car accident and forms an unlikely friendship with an 11-year-old indigenous boy. He will play the role of former TV weather forecaster Chris Masterman. Newcomer Lily Whiteley plays the young girl Charlie. They work together to rescue and reintegrate an orphaned joey in a remote and wonderful outback community. This initiative proves to be life-changing for both of them.
The ensemble cast also includes Deborah Mailman (Total Control, The New Boy, The Sapphire), Wayne Blair (The New Boy, Mystery Road), and Trisha Morton-Thomas (High Country, The Profession). :Native, Alice Hart’s Lost Flower, Ten) are also included. Pound Poms), Rachel House (“Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” “Thor: Ragnarok”), Brooke Satchwell (“Poker Face,” “The Twelve”), Ernie Dingo (“Bran Genevieve Lemon (Population 11, The Power of the Dog)), Clarence Ryan (Furiosa: Mad Max)・Saga, Moogai), Lariwi Hick (True Colors, Wentworth), Roy Billing (Jack Irish, Underbelly), Rick Donald (Population 11, Roast Night), Emily Taheny (Bay of Bondi Lifeguard Ryan Clarke (Bondi Rescue), Australian TV presenter Grant Denyer.
The film is based on the story of Chris Barnes, aka “Brolga,” who founded a kangaroo sanctuary in 2005 and was the subject of the 2013 BBC docu-series Kangaroo Dundee. Filming took place in the Australian Red Center town of Alice Springs in Arrernte County, home to a genuine Kangaroo Sanctuary, as well as at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, on the traditional lands and waters of the Bijigal, Birabiragal and Gadigal peoples. I was disappointed. .
Studiocanal’s Cultivator Films Australia is producing Kangaroo as its debut feature film in partnership with Bunya Productions and Brindle Films. Directed by Kate Woods (The Umbrella Academy, The Good Lord Bird), written by Harry Cripps (Dry, Penguin Bloom), and written by Melina Marchetta (Finding Alibrandi) additional writing by Daniel MacLean and Peta-Lee Cole-Manolis. . Producers are David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin and Angela Littlejohn of Bunya Productions, makers of Mystery Road, and Rachel Clements and Trisha Morton-Thomas of Brindle Films, which also produced MaveriX and Finke: There and Back.
Louise Smith and Marian McGowan are executive producers alongside Studiocanal’s Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Elizabeth Trotman and Marcus Gilzo. Screen Australian has partnered with Screen Territory to provide major production investment, with support from Screen NSW’s Made in NSW Fund.
