I loved watching cowboy and indian movies when I was a kid, so love that we have our own version in Western Australia set amongst the backdrop of the goldrush in 1897.
Whilst it's a brilliant fictional western movie, I love that it quietly interweaves stories of cameleers that made significant contributions enabling critical infrastructure to be developed which brought major economic and social benefits to Australia.
Writer and producer Roderick MacKay has honored the many communities these cameleers came from by taking the time to learn and portray their important but forgotten history as a central theme that runs throughout the movie. Telling this story are actors from diverse backgrounds. The protaganist, Ahmed Malek is Egyptian. Osamah Sami is Persian. Mahesh Jadu and Kaushik Das have Indian heritage. Baykali Ganambarr and Trevor Jamieson are indigenous. Oh and David Wenham and Jay Ryan are in it too!
Go see it if you love westerns or cowboy and indian movies. Go see it if you like a great story and love beautiful and vast landscapes of the Australian outback. But you MUST watch it if you are Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Afghan, Persian or Punjabi!
Whilst it's a brilliant fictional western movie, I love that it quietly interweaves stories of cameleers that made significant contributions enabling critical infrastructure to be developed which brought major economic and social benefits to Australia.
Writer and producer Roderick MacKay has honored the many communities these cameleers came from by taking the time to learn and portray their important but forgotten history as a central theme that runs throughout the movie. Telling this story are actors from diverse backgrounds. The protaganist, Ahmed Malek is Egyptian. Osamah Sami is Persian. Mahesh Jadu and Kaushik Das have Indian heritage. Baykali Ganambarr and Trevor Jamieson are indigenous. Oh and David Wenham and Jay Ryan are in it too!
Go see it if you love westerns or cowboy and indian movies. Go see it if you like a great story and love beautiful and vast landscapes of the Australian outback. But you MUST watch it if you are Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Afghan, Persian or Punjabi!