Mad Bastards (2010)

TJ is a mad bastard and his estranged 13yearold son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one too After being turned away from his mothers house TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make things right with his son Grandpa Tex has lived a tough life and now as a local cop in the outback town of Five Rivers he wants to change things for the men in his community Cutting between three generations Mad Bastards is a raw look at the journey to becoming a man and the personal transformation one must make Developed with local Aboriginal communities and fueled by a local cast Mad Bastards draws from the rich tradition of storytelling inherent in Indigenous life Using music from legendary Broome musicians the Pigram Brothers writerdirector Brendan Fletcher poetically fuses the harsh realities of violence healing and family