Head South Zoom Q&A event with writer/director Jonathan Ogilvie

Join us for an insightful Zoom Q&A screening with Writer/Director Jonathan Ogilvie on Thursday, April 3, 6.30pm at Luna Leederville. Hosted by Revelation Perth International Film Festival's Suzanne Worner.

Arrivals 6.00pm. 6.30pm Intro + film followed by Zoom Q&A

Head South stars popular Australian actor Ed Oxenbould who first shot to fame in Hollywood as a child actor in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and The Visit. Head South is Oxenbould’s first starring role as an adult actor. “He got the Kiwi accent perfectly,” says Head South’s writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie. Originally from New Zealand, Ogilvie moved to Sydney in the 1980s. The AACTA and AWGIE-nominated director has made three critically-acclaimed Australian feature films, starring Rose Byrne, Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Hugo Weaving.

Head South is a touching, bittersweet coming-of-age comedy set in New Zealand in 1979, about a naive teenager who, without any musical experience, plans a gig for his (not yet existing) post-punk band at the local rock music venue. Alone for a fortnight with his world-weary father who is going through his own crisis of identity, Angus navigates self-doubt, derision, harmful behaviour and a family tragedy to take the stage for the first time.

“Head South is an almost-true story,” says Jonathan Ogilvie. “Everything in it happened, and mainly to me.”