I'll start with the positives, shot well with beautiful Aussie landscapes and some refreshing Aboriginal music - Thats it. It's simply about a bunch of teens who are (apparently) troubled who get to go on a how to take photos tour bus in the middle of the Aussie outback and they are supposed to learn that photos are about stories and then they can find themselves. What I watched was a bunch of teens who had NO real trauma at all, just a bunch of winging teens. No stakes, no danger, no climax, absolutely nothing. This is the most underdeveloped story Screen Australia has ever made. If this was developed by you and funded - you actually thought, it was ready? A bunch of teems take photos and they just walk around, take photos, talk, have an argument, talk, take photos, something almost happens but then doesn't. No character arcs, no story arcs - actually there is no story here, your filming life at slow motion. I am a BIG advocator of Indigenous films, especially because I am of color. This was NOT a film, just a bunch of scenes. You as an agency have no idea what you are doing, ticking the diversity boxes again. Bad story, bad direction, bad script. And the actors were shocking apart from Mark Coles Smith. Don't waste your time, it's the slowest most boring film you'll ever watch and it's hard to sit through.
