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Adelaide indie thriller Roadman to premiere next month

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Director Leovic

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Producer Prime

Micro budget psychological thriller Roadman is to have its premiere in Adelaide next month after a 16 year journey from script.

Written and directed by Peter Leovic and produced by Stephen Prime, the 25 day shoot was mainly crewed by past and present students of Adelaide’s MAPS – Media Arts Production Skills – Film School along with local collective Urtext.

It features Travis McMahon, who co-starred in Kokoda, as a serial killer who finds the love of a good woman.

Roadman will premiere at the Palace Nova Cinema in Adelaide on October 21, with the DVD and digital downloads of the film going on sale on the same day.  

According to Prime, who teaches part time at MAPS, the main obstacle to overcome was the budget. He said: “The budget was incredibly tight. And very few experienced players were putting their hands up to go around the block with us. Who could blame them? So we had this idea that if we took a handful of mid-career diehards and put them together with a bunch of motivated up-and-comers we might just have a chance of pulling it off.”

The script of Roadman was in development since 1995, with several near misses on getting it greenlit, before Leovic and Prime eventually decided to go the indie route shooting it in Adelaide in 2008. Last year Roadman was named as a finalist in the DigiSPAA contest.

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