THE DISPOSABLES
FILM BY RENNY Wijeyamohan & SoNIA WHITEMAN
When 16-year-old refugee Priya's dad goes missing, Priya and her best friend Obi must navigate a community where they are treated as undesirables to find her dad. A mysterious sickness is sweeping through Western Sydney and showing no signs of slowing down. A terrifying creature prowls the suburbs at night. The cries of the immigrants and blue-collar workers who call it home are being ignored and panic is building. The whole place feels like a powder keg waiting to explode. But outspoken, sixteen-year-old, social justice warrior and aspiring rapper, Priya, has her problems. Between the jingoistic rhetoric of Immigration Minister and local MP Bruce Carter, authorities who treat her as an undesirable, seemingly indifferent Australian community, and the question mark hanging over her Temporary Protection Visa renewal, the strange goings-on in her neighbourhood is the least of her worries.
Directed by Renny Wijeyamohan & Sonia Whiteman
Written by Renny Wijeyamohan, Sonia Whiteman, Saman Shad & Keir Wilkins
Produced by Karen Radzyner
Funding by Screen Australia, Screen NSW and ABC
Production Company Dragonet Films & Photoplay Films
Starring Sumi Gunaratnam, Lakota Johnson, Rajan Velu, Jordan Rodrigues, Josh Pyman, Zara Tate, Heidi Arena, & Zenia Starr
Cinematography Tom Black
Production Design by ARACOURT (Ara Nuri Steel & Courtney Westbrook)
Costumes by Genevieve Graham
Props Standby Maddy Neat
Set Dresser Kiyanosh Sahebi
Art Department Buyer Emma Vranjes
Art Department Assistants Tamsin Staton, Jacquline Chapman
awards & NOMINATIONS
2023 - South by Southwest Film & Festival Sydney
2023 - AACTA TV Nominations
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