The new poster for Glenn Triggs’ Ancestry Road.

Here at Cinema Australia, we hold Australian filmmaker Glenn Triggs in very high regard. So when we received word that Triggs has released a first-look still from his new film, Ancestry Road, we couldn’t wait to share it.

Written, directed and produced by Triggs, Ancestry Road follows Kevin whose daughter continually goes missing up the back of their Scottish Farm. To make life easier on everyone, Kevin builds a road. Things begin to change though when deceased family members begin arriving in their cars for a visit.

Jessica Stanley and Seb Muirhead in Ancestry Road.

“When my mum passed away, all of these raw emotions naturally found their way into a script. I wrote about fifty pages in a day, which never happens. I felt it was very much a story worth telling. I then spent a year perfecting the script,” Triggs tells Cinema Australia.

Ancestry Road is set in Scotland, but was filmed entirely in a small town in the middle of Tasmania.

“We shot the whole thing in seventeen days and we believe we have managed to create something very heartfelt, cinematic and honest.

Ancestry Road stars Seb Muirhead, Jessica Stanley, Bill Munro, Charlotte Grey, Finn Bertschi, Gillian Unicomb, Anne Cordiner, John X and Jodie Wolf. This is the fifth film from Triggs following his previous feature films 41, Apocalyptic, The Comet Kids and Dreams of Paper & Ink. 

Credited as an executive producer on Ancestry Road is Mark Marshall who worked as a production assistant on The Empire Strikes Back, a post-production supervisor on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and as a production office assistant on The Goonies among a stack of other films.

Ancestry Road is expected to release in the second half of 2024 with a trailer expected in February.