Mystery Road

Product Description Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback hometown to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Alienated from both the white-dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter (now connected to the murdered girl) Jay stands alone in his determination to fight back - for his town, and his people. DVD EXTRAS MAKING OF INTERVIEWS WITH CAST TRAILER Review "An impressively crafted, immensely satisfying thriller" --Variety "A masterfully executed slice of storytelling...one of [the] finest films of the past few years" --FilmInk Australia "...broods and simmers...along the lines of Roman Polanski s CHINATOWN" --Crikey About the Actor Aaron Pedersen's acting career began in 1994 when he starred in the mini-series Heartland and was voted Bachelor of the Year by Cleo magazine. He came to notice in 1995 where he was co-host of Gladiators Australia, an Australian game show. Pedersen's first major acting role was for Wildside in 1997. In 1999, he played Michael Reilly in Water Rats, for two seasons. Other dramatic roles he has been in have included MDA (in 2002) and in The Secret Life of Us (2005). Since 2007, he had the leading role in SBS's drama series, The Circuit and also in 2007, began appearing in Channel Seven's drama, City Homicide (which ended in 2011). He appears as Cam in ABC television's Jack Irish in 2012. About the Director Ivan Sen's first feature-length work, Beneath Clouds, filmed on a $2.5 million budget won him global acclaim, screening at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and winning the Premiere First Movie Award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and the 2002 Best Director Award at the Australian Film Institute Awards. For the screenplay, he drew on his own background as the child of an Aboriginal mother and an absent white father. The film follows two teenagers, Lena (Dannielle Hall) and Vaughn (Damian Pitt) who are hitchhiking their way from a rural New South Wales town to Sydney, each for different reasons. The film explores many of the racial difficulties in their society as well as the way the choices each makes can affect how they turn out. In 2009, the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival held at the Sydney Opera House saw the world premiere of Sen's Fire Talker, a documentary biopic about political activist, Aboriginal footballer, and statesmanCharlie Perkins. Sen's second feature-length film, Dreamland, screened at the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival. Most recently Sen's new feature length film Mystery Road premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2013 and features many well known Australian actors such as Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten and Tasma Walton. The film is also set to show at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
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