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Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten begin shooting on Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road

Mystery Road director Ivan Sen

Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten will appear in a new film by the director of Toomelah which has begun shooting in central Queensland.

Mystery Road, written and directed by Ivan Sen will also star Aaron Pederson in the lead role of a detective who returns to his outback home town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl.

Sen, known for his low budget films, will be DOP and editor on the film.  Produced by David Jowsey, who produced Mad Bastards and Satellite Boy, the film will be released locally through Management of Doubt with international sales handled by Arclight, and Arclight’s Michael Wrenn executive producing.

Sen has assembled an ensemble cast that also includes Jack Thompson, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, Robert Mammone and newcomers Trisha Whitton and Siobhan Binge.

Jowsey said: “Ivan Sen is one of Australia’s most gifted filmmakers who, with Mystery Road, has the opportunity to apply his prodigious talent to a broader canvas.  Ivan’s screenplay strikes a distinctive balance between its unabashedly genre roots as a murder mystery and its perceptive cultural insights.”

The film has been financed with assistance from Screen Australia, Screen Queensland and the ABC.

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