55 minutes of Australian outback powder keg where men outnumber women 50-to-1. What could go wrong?
A drama set in the isolated, mining town of Newman in northwest Australia, where men outnumber women fifty to one and the human flashpoint is set low. A new miner, David, is attracted to the young wife of his older boss, Foxy, whose jealousy is renowned amongst the locals.
Direction
Hannant squeezes maximum tension from minimal runtime and landscape.
Production
Authentic Newman location captures mining town purgatory.
Director
Brian Hannant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brian Hannant later became second unit director on Mad Max: Fury Road, another Australian desert pressure cooker.
Newman was a real Pilbara mining town built by BHP in the 1960s; the gender imbalance was documented fact, not dramatic exaggeration.
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