Tommy O’Brien and Hannah Lehmann in Road to Perth.

Directed by Chad Peter
Written by Chad Peter, Tommy O’Brien and Hannah Lehmann
Produced by Tommy O’Brien and Chad Peter
Starring Tommy O’Brien, Hannah Lehmann, Rachel Scott, Ellen Grimshaw and Kat Kaevich

Freshly rejected from a marriage proposal, Alex (Tommy O’Brien) boards a flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia, for what was planned to be a happy vacation for a married-couple-to-be. Instead, he finds himself arriving alone with a fully-booked trip, in a country he’s never once visited. Thus begins Road to Perth, an unscripted road trip film from director Chad Peter, set in the Australian outback.

Alex’s journey begins in Melbourne, venturing out to Adelaide and taking in the exotic landscape one pit stop at a time. By chance meeting, he crosses paths with Ronnie (Hannah Lehmann) – a woman beginning a journey of her own. With little motivation to guide him forward, Alex is drawn in by Ronnie’s plight when he discovers she’s on a trip to scatter her father’s ashes along the Nullarbor Plain – a twelve-hundred kilometre stretch of road, along the southernmost edge of Australia.

Filmed without a script and letting the road take them naturally where they felt the story was meant to go, Road to Perth captures the indie spirit of filmmaking in a semi-documentary style rarely seen in a studio production. In the tradition of acclaimed indie films like Before Sunrise or Like Crazy, Road to Perth is an intimate tale of two people that meet each other at a time of need, all while exploring the gorgeous backroads of the Australian south.

Starring Tommy O’Brien (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story) and Hannah Lehmann (Suburban Wildlife), with direction by Chad Peter (the VFX supervisor of Gaslit and Mr. Robot S4), Road to Perth is an experimental road trip film, shot without a script and a crew of one, in a landscape unfamiliar to the filmmakers.

Available to watch in Australia via Vimeo on Demand and Apple TV