Story
Nine-year old Gem lives with her Aborigine family in a remote region of Australia. When Gem‘s mother dies suddenly, a wild emu helps her get through a difficult period. The emu is a mythical bird of her ancestors and, like Gem, a fast runner – ever forwards, never back. It’s a relationship for which she would do anything, but one that also brings her into conflict with a social worker.
Director
IMOGEN THOMAS (*1970) is an Australian screenplay writer and director. She studied in New York and Adelaide. She had a big hit with her short Mixed Bag (2008). Emu Runner is her first full-length film.Trailer
Info
Emu Runner
Fiction Feature
English
Michel | FF2019
Australia
2018
95 min
German overvoice
Imogen Thomas
Imogen Thomas
Rhae-Kye Waites, Wayne Blair, Maurial Spearim, Stella Carter, Rob Carlton, Georgia Blizzard, Mary Waites, Lindsay Waites, Letisha Boney, Rodney McHughes
Imogen Thomas, Victor Evatt
Michael Gibbs
Nicole Norelli, Jenny Hicks
Ben Fink, Peter Michael Davison, Glenn Skuthorpe
Lissa Coote
Oration Films
Imogen Thomas Films; Emu Runner Film PTY LTD
Victor Evatt, Emu Runner Film PTY LTD: victorevatt@bigpond.com