Travis Jeffery in Forever Young.

From the AACTA Award-Winning indie production company Breathless Films (Birdeater, Lonesome, The Longest Weekend) comes a new feature film written and directed by duo Josh Mullins and Ulysses Oliver (Love Road). With Kate Cornish (Heartbreak High, Optics) as DOP, and Flora Hadaway as Production Designer. It is currently being filmed in the luscious and ancient Colo Valley (Hawkesbury Region NSW).

After the shocking discovery that he has the organs of a 70 year-old, 36 year-old Tom (Travis Jeffery, Birthright, Planet of the Apes) resists the advice to go into early retirement. Determined to find a way to stay young, he joins a strange cult that promises its members that they will be “reborn” as a 6-year old child.

The cult is run by the charismatic and domineering Peter (Socratis Otto, Wentworth) who becomes a father figure to the cult’s rag tag band of misfits, but harbours some dark secrets of his own. As things start to unfold with darkly absurd violence, Tom’s goal becomes more difficult. Until, that is, he befriends Peter’s disenfranchised daughter, 20-something May (Ayesha Madon, Heartbreak High) with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.

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“We’ve drawn on our own feelings of redundancy and ageing disgracefully,” says Ulysses Oliver. Josh Mullins adds, “Abandonment, loss, rejection, fear of ageing and dying – everyone has these anxieties, but the way we handle them as an adult can differ, and sometimes leads to terrible things.”

Other cast members include Paul Hughes (Cry Baby) as Sam, Gareth Davies (Elvis) as Carlos, Vanessa Moltzen (In Limbo) as Cassie, Gabby Chan (Here Out West) as Sonia and Luke Jai (Invisible Boys) as Kitt.

Costume Design is by CC Williams (Tennessine), HMUA by Kae Harris and Sound by Jack Moiseyev. The film is produced by Ben Ferris and Ulysses Oliver as Breathless Films. The screenplay was developed with assistance from Screen NSW.

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