WHO’S IN IT?
George MacKay (1917), Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Sean Keehan (Drift), Jacob Collins-Levy (Holding The Man), Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), Charlie Hunnam (The Lost City of Z), Claudia Karvan (Daybreakers), Marlon Williams (A Star Is Born), Earl Cave (Old Boys), Louis Hewison (film debut), Jacob Collins-Levy (Joe Cinque’s Consolation), Harry Greenwood (The Nightingale), Markella Kavenagh (film debut), Jillian Nguyen (film debut), Orlando Schwerdt (film debut)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Justin Kurzel (Snowtown), director, producer; Shaun Grant (Berlin Syndrome), writer; Paul Ranford (Closed For Winter), Hal Vogel (Endgame) and Liz Watts (Lore), producers; Jed Kurzel (The Nightingale), composer; Ari Wegner (Lady Macbeth), cinematographer; Nick Fenton (American Animals), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
In 1870s Australia, bush-ranger Ned Kelly (MacKay) and his gang of outlaws flee from the authorities and establish themselves as folk heroes…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Director Justin Kurzel’s revisionist take on the legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly asks us to forget everything we think we know about him and see his life through a very different perspective.
