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Southern Cross
Behind the Scenes
The film was shot on digital betacam over 4 weeks in Western Australia from 8th October 2001 through to 3rd November 2001. As usual, getting the money together was fraught with difficulties so we ended up having to cope with a very short pre-production period (less than 3 weeks).
Access to the building we used as the detention camp (the Longmore detention centre) was critical to our scheduling and we reluctantly had to go there at the start of the shoot. This meant we'd used up all our weather cover in the very first week. For the rest of the shoot we decided to approach it like a road movie, starting at the Kalbarri National Park and moving south through Dandarragan, New Norcia, Wongan Hills and Ballidu. The final two weeks were shot in and around the John Forrest National Park.
The stunts presented the biggest problems, particularly the kids falling over the edge of the waterfall. Shooting at night, when it was cold and very slippery on the rocks, presented a particular challenge to the stunt co-ordinator - all the more so because we were several hours behind schedule when we started. We also had two "stunt doubles" who had never done anything like it before (which is commonly the case when you're working with child actors) but they came through bravely in the end.
The other major challenge was creating the bushfire. Although we were shooting at the start of summer there was a risk that we could actually cause a real bushfire if anything went wrong. As such we had the Kalamunda fire service on full alert (and they kindly let us use their fire trucks and vehicles as props).