Set across post-apocalyptic Western Australian desert highways, Transmission takes the audiences on a compelling journey of survival as they follow 10 year old Tilly and her father Jim who try to make their way to the 'virus free' safe zone based in the small town of Leonora following an airborne pandemic that has wiped out 90% of the population of their hometown, Perth. Along the way Tilly must face up to some harsh lessons, most importantly, how to drive. She must endure the ultimate driving lesson in a post apocalyptic world.
Acting
Angourie Rice's tiny face carries apocalyptic weight.
Cinematography
Endless WA highway as existential dread machine.
Direction
Hilditch stretches 13 minutes into lifetime trauma.
Director
Zak Hilditch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zak Hilditch later directed 1922 for Netflix, proving he's obsessed with parents and children destroying each other.
Shot during Perth's actual mining boom ghost towns, using real abandoned infrastructure as production design.
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