The Flood

The Flood, Victoria Wharfe McIntyre's debut feature, shot in NSW's Kangaroo Valley, takes up where her impressive short film Miro left off, this time with a female heroine exacting revenge on an unjust colonial Australia.

The Flood stars Alexis Lane, Shaka Cook (who will be seen next year in the hit musical Hamilton), Dean Kyrwood, Dalara Williams and Aaron Jeffery, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the 2020 AACTA Awards for his work on the film.

Set during WWII, the film is the story of Jarah's (Alexis Lane) coming-of-age in a brutal and lawless land - growing from a sweet child to a strong, independent and ferocious woman taking on Australia's corrupt and bigoted system one bad guy at a time. In the best tradition of the gunslinging outlaw, when the enigmatic Jarah is pushed to the limit she explodes in a fury of retribution. But for a revenge western there is a surprising series of twists and turns that hint towards redemption and reconciliation.

Writer/director Victoria Wharfe McIntyre says: "We take audiences on a roller coaster ride, reimagining history, where women of the era radicalize and push back on expectations. Through living lives of their own choosing they highlight the choices and actions of the brutal society around them."

The Flood has a limited theatrical release through Madman and FanForce from December 9 with Q&A events (some live streamed) with director and writer Victoria Wharfe McIntyre and cast including….

Filmed in Victoria's hometown of Kangaroo Valley, in what Victoria describes as a "wonderful creative collaboration with the local Yuin Nation community, utilising our land and that of friends and neighbours", The Flood has poignantly become a visual archive of the Valley's pristine subtropical rainforests and unique bushland which were destroyed by the 2020 firestorm that devastated the east coast of Australia.