Suburban Wildlife

Suburban Wildlife (2019)

Long time friends Louise, Nina and Alice celebrate their recent graduation with hectic partying, joined by their friend Kane who is the only friend not to attend university. Louise’s imminent departure for London adds to the underlying tension within the group, and as the boundaries between real and surreal blur, Louise devises an intervention to save their final days together. They embark on a road trip to regional Australia, and upon returning home face the reality of her departure. They are left, a group of suburban animals, on the threshold of their lives.

Date of release
2019-06-08
TMDB
2.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Imogen McCluskey

Casting

Interesting facts

Suburban Wildlife is a 2019 Australian independent coming-of-age drama film directed by Imogen McCluskey in her feature film debut. It was written by McCluskey and Béatrice Barbeau-Scurla. The film stars Maddy McWilliam, Hannah Lehmann, Priscilla Doueihy, and Alex King. It had its world premiere on 9 March 2019 at the Cinequest Film Festival in California.

Production

McCluskey and co-writer-producer Béatrice Barbeau-Scurla were students at AFTRS when they started work on the film, and used the school's equipment for the first stages. Suburban Wildlife's production budget of A$4,000 was raised through crowdfunding efforts. Shooting took place over 14 days in Sydney, with post-production (involving two production companies) taking another 18 months.

Cinematographer Lucca Barone-Peters is a close collaborator and friend of director McCluskey.

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