The US rights to Matchbox Pictures’ Safe Harbour have been acquired by Hulu.
Matchbox Pictures’ 'Safe Harbour' was one of the most superbly produced, critically acclaimed and deftly promoted Australian dramas of recent years: so why were the overnight audiences on SBS relatively low?
'Safe Harbour' is a bold new psychological thriller about a group of friends whose sailing holiday of a lifetime alters their lives forever after they cross paths with a struggling fishing boat overloaded with asylum seekers en-route to Australia.
When Robert Rabiah scored his first major role in Andrew Dominik’s 'Chopper' in 2000, he felt he had arrived as an actor. Yet he soon discovered acting is a fickle profession as he experienced some lean periods in between roles.
Ewen Leslie has spent much of his illustrious career playing basically good men who are in challenging situations. His latest roles in Matchbox Pictures’ 'Safe Harbour' and Goalpost Pictures’ 'Fighting Season' are in that milieu, but each with intriguing nuances.
Ten years after her screen debut in the SBS drama 'Kick', Nicole Chamoun finally is reaping the rewards for perseverance and hard work with key roles in Stan’s 'Romper Stomper' and SBS’s 'Safe Harbour'.
Jacqueline McKenzie made her film debut in Geoffrey Wright’s 1992 movie 'Romper Stomper' as Gabe, the ill-treated lover of Russell Crowe’s Nazi skinhead Hando. So the actress was delighted when Wright told her two years ago he was working on a contemporary TV series which would follow Gabe, two other characters from the original film and Gabe’s estranged son, Kane, during a race riot in Melbourne.
'Safe Harbour' is a bold psychological thriller set in Brisbane about a group of friends whose sailing holiday of a lifetime to Indonesia alters their lives forever after they cross paths with a fishing boat overloaded with asylum seekers enroute to Australia.