EXCLUSIVE: UK-based sales and distribution company Blue Finch Film Releasing has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding Australia and New Zealand, to Jordon Prince-Wright’s WW1 war feature Before Dawn.
First-look materials will be available to view at the American Film Market, where Blue Finch will begin sales. Based on real-life war diaries, Before Dawn is an epic retelling of one of Australia’s biggest military victories during WWI.
Jim Collins (Miller), a young man from the outback, leaves his family-run sheep station to join the soldiers on the western front with hopes of making a difference.
Soon, the realities of the muddy, ruthless, and entirely unforgiving war take their toll on a guilt-ridden Jim. As the men in the battalion are whittled away and hope becomes a distant memory, a final chance at redemption comes in one of Australia’s greatest battles; Jim must risk death or forever carry the burden of leaving yet another man behind.
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