One Eyed Girl

One Eyed Girl (2014)

In the land of the blind the one eyed girl is Queen

After the death of his girlfriend, Travis, a thirty-something psychiatrist, struggles to keep it together. On the brink of a nervous breakdown he stumbles across a strange church run by a charismatic leader, Pastor Jay. In search of answers Travis is led deeper and deeper into the underworld of religious fanaticism, home to a Doomsday cult and a teenage girl named Grace.

Date of release
2014-10-24
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Nick Remy Matthews

Casting

Interesting facts

One Eyed Girl is a 2015 Australian psychological thriller film directed by Nick Remy Matthews and starring Mark Leonard Winter, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, and Steve Le Marquand. Winter plays a troubled psychiatrist who joins a cult after one of his patients commits suicide. It premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October 2014 and was released in Australia in April 2015.

Production

The initial concept for the story did not involve a cult; instead, director and co-writer Matthews sought to explore alternative ways of thinking and living. The story evolved to include a cult when Matthews and co-writer Craig Behenna added a journey for Travis to find redemption and wisdom. Father Jay's philosophy is intentionally kept ambiguous, though they wrote a detailed biography for the character to aid Le Marquand's acting.

Casting used social networking sites to find what producer David Ngo called a more authentic cast. The 'Search for Grace' and 'Search for Marcus' online campaigns auditioned over 600 applicants from all over the world through Facebook and finally discovered rising stars Matt Crook to play Marcus and Tilda Cobham-Hervey to play Grace. Filming began in November 2012.

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