The Gods of Wheat Street
| The Gods of Wheat Street | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Jon Bell |
| Written by | Jon Bell |
| Directed by | Wayne Blair Catriona McKenzie Adrian Russell Wills |
| Starring | Kelton Pell Lisa Flanagan Shari Sebbens Bruce Carter Mark Coles Smith Rarriwuy Hick Miah Madden Ursula Yovich Brett Molloy Mouche Phillips |
| Composer | Jeff Lang |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Deborah Cox Fiona Eagger Erica Glynn Sally Riley |
| Producer | Lois Randall |
| Production locations | Coraki,NSW, Australia Lismore, NSW, Australia Casino, NSW, Australia |
| Cinematography | Brendan Lavelle Murray Lui |
| Editors | Suresh Ayyar Nicholas Beauman |
| Running time | 57 minutes |
| Production company | Every Cloud Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 12 April – 17 May 2014 |
The Gods of Wheat Street is an Australian television drama series that screened on ABC TV from 12 April 2014. The six-part series tells the stories of the Freeburn clan, an Australian Aboriginal family.
Synopsis
Odin Freeburn, head of the family, is being pulled in all directions as he tries to keep his family together. Odin has one brother in jail, another brother is in love with the daughter of the family enemy and his wife has run away to the city leaving him to raise their two daughters. To complicate matters, his employer has just died, his sister-in-law is in love with him and the spirit of his mother Eden has come back on a mission to protect the important destiny of the Freeburn family line.[1]
Cast
- Kelton Pell as Odin Freeburn
- Lisa Flanagan as Libby Lavelle
- Shari Sebbens as Isolde Freeburn
- Ursula Yovich as Eden Freeburn
- Mark Coles Smith as Tristan Freeburn
- Bruce Carter as Ares Freeburn
- Rarriwuy Hick as Electra Freeburn
- Miah Madden as Athena Freeburn
- Tessa Rose as Teri Lavelle
- David Field as Harry Hamilton
- Millie Samuels as Anastasia Hamilton
- Mouche Phillips as Petra Hamilton
- Alfie Gledhill as Fables
- Lauren Hamilton Neill as Shaz
- Frederick Copperwaite as Jonesy Brown
- Richard Green as Knuckles
- Jack Charles as Old Uncle
- Gregory J Fryer
- Isaiah Smith as Bucky
- Luke Carroll as Wayne
- Riley Nottingham as Constable Craig Woods
Production
The series is written by Jon Bell, who is also a producer with Lois Randall. Executive producers are Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox from Every Cloud Productions along with Sally Riley, ABC TV’s head of Indigenous Unit. It is directed by Catriona McKenzie, Wayne Blair and Adrian Wills.[2] The show was filmed around Casino and Lismore in Northern NSW in late 2012.[1]
References
- ^ a b The Gods Of Wheat Street - Every Cloud Productions
- ^ The Gods of Wheat Street, new Indigenous drama for ABC1 by David Knox, TV Tonight, 15 October 2012