Kid Snow

Madman has today launched the trailer for the visually stunning upcoming 1970s set outback drama KID SNOW, following a washed-up tent boxer who gets one last shot to make a name for himself, but is forced to choose between old dreams and new love.

Directed by Paul Goldman (Australian Rules, Suburban Mayhem, Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story) and based on a story by John Brumpton, KID SNOW was filmed in Kalgoorlie in the expansive, panoramic Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. English stage and screen actor Billy Howle (On Chesil Beach, Infinite Storm) plays the titular role alongside Phoebe Tonkin (Babylon, Boy Swallows Universe) and Tom Bateman (Murder on the Orient Express, Behind Her Eyes). Supporting is a strong ensemble cast including Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin, Last Cab to Darwin), Tasma Walton (How to Please a Woman, Mystery Road), Hunter Page-Lochard (Fires, Cleverman), Shaka Cook (Top End Wedding, Operation Buffalo) and Robert Taylor (Into the Ashes, Longmire).

SYNOPSIS: Outback Australia, 1971. Kid Snow, a washed-up Irish fighter in a raucous travelling tent-boxing show, is offered a rematch against the man he fought ten years ago. It's his chance to turn the page on a tragedy that changed his life forever. But when feisty single mother Sunny crosses Snow's path, he is forced to contemplate a future beyond life on the road.

With a screenplay by John Brumpton, Stephen Cleary, Phillip Gwynne, Shane Danielsen and Paul Goldman, KID SNOW is produced by Lizzette Atkins (Looking for Grace), Megan Wynn (The Childhood of a Leader) and Bruno Charlesworth (Ladies In Black). The film also features an original score from composers Peter Knight and Warren Ellis.

KID SNOW is a Unicorn Films, Immaculate Conception and Wynn Media production, with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screenwest, Lotterywest and the Western Australian Screen Fund. Financed in association with VicScreen with support from Soundfirm and the Goldfields-Esperance Development Commission. Distributed by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand with French-based sales agent Elle Driver managing international sales.

KID SNOW will have its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival on June 11 at the State Theatre ahead of its national cinema release on August 15.