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STELLAR CAST FOR SECOND SEASON OF MULTI-AWARD WINNING REDFERN NOW
by Kris Way ecipient of Most Outstanding Drama at this year’s Logie Awards, the critically acclaimed REDFERN NOW, starts filming its second season in and around Redfern on May 1. Celebrated by audiences and critics alike, REDFERN NOW is produced by Blackfella Films’ Miranda Dear and
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Darren Dale (pictured standing near wall), in collaboration with internationally acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern as story producer. Season one characters returning are those portrayed by Wayne Blair, this year’s Most Outstanding Actress Logie winner, Deborah Mailman (pictured below), Ursula Yovich, Lisa Flanagan, Stephen
Curry, Dean Daley Jones and the AACTA Awardwinning Leah Purcell. They will be joined by Aaron Pederson, Craig McLachlan, Meyne Wyatt, Ernie Dingo, Steve Bisley, Sarah Woods and Tammy Clarkson. The powerful, heartbreaking and uplifting stories of the second six-hour season have been written by Leah Purcell, Wayne Blair, John Bell, Adrian Russell Wills and the AACTA Award-winning Steven McGregor, and will be directed by Wayne Blair, Leah Purcell, Rachel Perkins, Beck Cole and Adrian Russell Wills. Sally Riley, Head of ABC TV’s Indigenous Department said: “Redfern Now season two
will again be a highlight in ABC Television’s schedule, with favourite characters returning, new families with dilemmas that will touch the hearts of audiences, and the wonderful storytelling by Australia’s leading Indigenous creatives.” REDFERN NOW is produced by Blackfella Films’ Darren Dale and Miranda Dear, and presented by ABC TV and Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW. Miranda Dear said “We are so thrilled to have attracted a cast and crew of this calibre. It is a testament to the power of the writing, the resonance of the stories and the success of the first season.”
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