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RED EARTH

By Liselle MEI

Drama - Development 2021

A landmark film and a compelling cross cultural love story set in Frontier Queensland in the 1880's. Desperate to escape her loveless marriage, a young Chinese woman embarks on an erotic game with the English landowner on a remote sugar plantation in tropical North Queensland, to win her freedom.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, MANDARIN
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Liselle MEI
- Writer(s)
- Liselle MEI, Trish LAKE
- Producer(s)
- Trish LAKE (Freshwater Pictures)
- Synopsis
- Queensland 1888 -- RED EARTH tells the story of a young Chinese bride brought to a Queensland sugar cane plantation to marry the head of a Chinese work gang. Desperate to escape her loveless marriage, she embarks on an erotic game with the plantation owner to buy back her freedom. The film promises to be a landmark project because of its subject matter concerning the Chinese in Queensland in the 1800’s - not previously dealt with in an Australian feature film. It will be a bilingual English-Chinese language film.
- Partners & financing
- Screen Queensland, Screen Australia.
  Attached Distributor, Australia and New Zealand, Hopscotch.