Trailer For a Beautifully Shot Australian Western Film HIGH GROUND
Samuel Goldwyn Films has released a trailer for an upcoming Australian western titled High Ground. The story is set in the 1930s and it’s inspired by true events. It looks like it tells an incredible and intriguing story and as you’ll see in the trailer, it’s a beautifully shot film.
In the story, “After fighting in The Great War as a sniper, Travis (Simon Baker), now a policeman in the vast empty spaces of Northern Australia, loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of an Indigenous tribe. When his superiors insist on burying the truth, Travis leaves in disgust, only to be forced back 12 years later to help hunt down Baywara, an Aboriginal warrior whose attacks on new settlers are causing havoc. When Travis, now a bounty hunter, recruits as his tracker the young mission-raised Gutjuk (Jacob Junior Nayinggul), the only known survivor of the massacre, memories threaten to resurface and turn the white man from hunter into the hunted.”
The film is described as a "frontier western about colonial violence and misunderstandings that deeply resonates in today's Australia – and indeed all over the world – the film explores the nature of loyalty and the ability to distinguish freely between right and wrong, in opposition to the dogmas of the age in which you live."
The film was directed by Stephen Johnson and it stars Simon Baker, Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Jack Thompson, Callan Mulvey, Witiyana Marika, & Caren Pistorius.
High Ground will be released direct-to-VOD in the US starting May 14th, 2021.