Roderick MacKay is a writer and director from Perth, Western Australia. With a formal training in visual arts, MacKay is a highly visual storyteller. Roderick’s debut feature film, The Furnace, premiered as part of the Official Selection at the 77th Venice Film Festival. The short films he bot h wrote and directed include Trigger (2010) and Factory 293 (2014), which received a West Australian Screen Award for editing.
Producer
Timothy White, Tenille Kennedy
Production Company
Southern Light Films, The Koop
Screenplay
Roderick MacKay
Cinematography
Michael McDermott
Editing
Merlin Eden
Sound
David Raines, Nick Gallagher
Cast
Ahmed Malek, David Wenham, Baykali Ganambarr, Jay Ryan, Erik Thomson, Trevor Jamieson, Samson Coulter, Wakara Gondarra, Mahesh Jadu, Osamah Sami, Goran D Kleut
Contacts
Arclight Film
Producer
Timothy White, Tenille Kennedy
Production Company
Southern Light Films, The Koop
Screenplay
Roderick MacKay
Cinematography
Michael McDermott
Editing
Merlin Eden
Sound
David Raines, Nick Gallagher
Cast
Ahmed Malek, David Wenham, Baykali Ganambarr, Jay Ryan, Erik Thomson, Trevor Jamieson, Samson Coulter, Wakara Gondarra, Mahesh Jadu, Osamah Sami, Goran D Kleut
Contacts
Arclight Film
More About Film
1897, Western Australia. To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with two 400-oz Crown-marked gold bars. Together, the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace—the one place where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown. The film premiered at the 77th Venice Film Festival.
Producer
Timothy White, Tenille Kennedy
Production Company
Southern Light Films, The Koop
Screenplay
Roderick MacKay
Cinematography
Michael McDermott
Editing
Merlin Eden
Sound
David Raines, Nick Gallagher
Cast
Ahmed Malek, David Wenham, Baykali Ganambarr, Jay Ryan, Erik Thomson, Trevor Jamieson, Samson Coulter, Wakara Gondarra, Mahesh Jadu, Osamah Sami, Goran D Kleut
Contact
Arclight Film
More About Film
1897, Western Australia. To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with two 400-oz Crown-marked gold bars. Together, the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace—the one place where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown. The film premiered at the 77th Venice Film Festival.
