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88% Rotten Tomatoes Cinematography László Baranyai Director Grant Scicluna Screenplay Grant Scicluna | 6.2/10 IMDb 2/5 The Guardian Produced by Jannine Barnes Initial release 7 August 2015 Editor Anthony Cox Music director Lawrence English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Robert TaylorKerry FoxHelen MorseReef Ireland Cast Similar Dramas, Other similar movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Downriver trailer
Downriver is a 2015 Australian film funded by Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Melbourne International Film Festival, produced by Happening Films. It is writer-director Grant Scicluna's feature debut. The main cast includes Robert Taylor, Kerry Fox, Helen Morse and Reef Ireland. It is described as a mystery drama in which a teenage killer returns to uncover dark truths in his quest to find a missing body.
Contents
- Downriver trailer
- Downriver trailer festival 2015
- Plot
- Cast
- Filming
- Short film
- Premiere
- Critical response
- References
Downriver trailer festival 2015
Plot
The chilling story about a teenager, James, who serves time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found. In an attempt to right all wrongs and uncover the truth, James takes dangerous risks to find redemption and return the missing body to the grieving mother.
Cast
The film has an ensemble cast featuring:
Filming
Filming began and completed in late 2014 in Warrandyte.
Short film
Downriver extends from Scicluna's short film The Wilding which won the Iris Prize in 2012 which was developed through Screen Australia's Springboard production funding and features Reef Ireland in the lead role.
Premiere
The film had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) on 7 August 2015 amid much hype and sold out all three sessions in several days, MIFF released a fourth encore screening due to ticket demand. Downriver's international premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival on 15 September 2015. It will be released theatrically in Australia 2016.
Critical response
Downriver received many positive reviews from critics on its Australian premiere with Ali Schnabel from The Age describing it as "brutal, gritty and unflinching...populated with real characters" while Laura Henderson from The Conversation said it was "a tangled, tense and mercurial work...a visually stunning piece, with superb performances and an utterly gripping story".