'Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in a frontier mining town on a missing persons enquiry.
'What seems like a simple “light duties” investigation soon opens into a web of crime and corruption implicating the local Mayor, Mining Boss and Aboriginal Land Council.
'Jay must overcome personal differences with the young local policeman while he pulls his life together to dig deeper into the conspiracy. They are led into a world of people trafficking and organised crime at the heart of the local mining industry, where the value of a life is pitted against big money and deep-rooted corruption.' (Production summary)
Mystery Road
Moree Girls
( dir. Ivan Sen
)
Australia
:
Mystery Road Films
,
2013
Z1870365
2013
single work
film/TV
Jay Swan, a detective, returns home to an outback town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found near a trucking route out of town.
'A genre mostly associated with quintessentially American landscapes and cultural tropes, the western has developed its own fascinating tradition in Australia - most notably, since the turn of the twenty-first century. Brian McFarlane surveys a range of films from the last two decades, dealing with subjects such as bushrangers, abuse and colonial dispossession, and finds both echoes of US antecedents and new visions that blaze their own distinctive trails.'
Source: Abstract.
'Filmmaker Ivan Sen has begun shooting the follow-up to his feature Mystery Road in the Winton Shire region of Queensland...'
