CHARLIE’S COUNTRY

STARRING David Gulpilil, Luke Ford & Ritchie Singer

DIRECTED BY Rolf de Heer

WRITTEN BY Rolf de Heer

CINEMATOGRAPHY Ian Jones

RELEASE DATE Second Half of 2014

CINEMA AUSTRALIA SAY It’s master director Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil’s third feature film together after The Tracker and Ten Canoes so how could you not be excited. The trailer is emotionally heavy thanks to Gulpilil’s incredible acting talent. de Heer had a slight misstep in 2012 with The King is Dead but with Charlie’s Country he looks to be back on track.

VERTIGO PRODUCTIONS SAY Charlie is getting older, and life is becoming more difficult for him, what with now the proper policing of whitefella laws that don’t generally make much sense, and Charlie’s kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
The film had a first riotous screening, complete with dog fight and snake invasion, in Ramingining in Arnhem Land, where much of it was shot. Screenings of the completed film at the Adelaide Film Festival (which, along with the South Australian Film Corporation and Screen Australia is one of the investors) followed in October 2013. “Charlie’s Country” won the audience award for most popular feature of the festival and earnt some glowing reviews.