Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling's post-apocalyptic debut feature, 'Cargo', recently shot in South Australia.
Bron Creative, the LA and Vancouver-based company which produced Denzel Washington’s 'Fences' and Nate Parker’s 'The Birth of a Nation', will produce and co-finance the thriller with Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories.
Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling’s debut feature Cargo – dubbed a ‘zombie tearjerker’ – will make its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in October.
Causeway Films will produce writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature 'Buoyancy', a story set in rural Cambodia that follows a young boy enslaved on a fishing trawler.
No one could accuse Causeway Films’ Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings of resting on their laurels. The producers’ thriller 'Cargo' is about to debut at the Adelaide Film Festival ahead of its launch as a Netflix Original, they’re in post on Jennifer Kent’s 'The Nightingale', and have just gotten the greenlight on 'Buoyancy', the debut feature from writer-director Rodd Rathjen. The two speak to IF about establishing their company and working together.
Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland and Christopher Kirby are starring in 'Blood Vessel', Justin Dix’s survival horror/thriller which is now shooting in Melbourne.
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature 'Buoyancy', a drama set in rural Cambodia that follows Chakra, a 14-year-old boy enslaved on a fishing trawler, will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Four or five years ago writer-director Rodd Rathjen read a story in an environmental journal about forced labour and exploitation of children in Thailand’s fishing industry.