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| Australia | 90 MINUTES | English
Thriller
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers (Adrien Brody) is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers the horrifying secret shared by his patients, he is put on a course that takes him back to the remote hometown he fled years ago. There in False Creek he is consumed by solving a decades-old mystery that holds the key to his strange and menacing delusions.

Writer-director Michael Petroni's spine-tingling supernatural thriller is steeped in a moody, ominous atmosphere; its foreboding stillness is punctuated by explosions of haunting imagery, all in the service of a layered and satisfying mystery story.

—Cara Cusumano

Cast & Credits
Directed by
Michael Petroni
Australian writer-director Michael Petroni is an AFI alumnus. After winning AFI Screenplay of the Year for Till Human Voices Wake Us, he made it into a feature starring Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter. Fox 2000 is currently producing Petroni’s script Afterlife with Kevin Lima directing.
Director
Michael Petroni
Screenwriter
Michael Petroni
Producer
Jamie Hilton, Antonia Barnard, Michael Petroni
Editor
Martin Connor, Luke Doola
Cinematographer
Stefan Duscio
Executive Producer
Compton Ross, Phil Hunt, David Evans
Cast
Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Robin McLeavy, Bruce Spence, Jenni Baird

Contacts
International Sales Agent
Stephen Kelliher
Bankside Films
London, W1W8QN
Phone: +44 (0)20 7636 6085
krisztina@bankside-films.com
Print Source
Yana Georgieva
Bankside Films
London, W1W 8QN
Phone: +44 207 636 6085
yana@bankside-films.com
Press Contact
Steven Beeman
Falco Ink
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US Sales Contact
Stephen Kelliher
Bankside Films
London, W1W8QN
Phone: +44 (0)20 7636 6085
krisztina@bankside-films.com

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