by FilmInk staff
“I‘m absolutely stoked to be working at all this year, let alone on a production as special as this with so many talented eggs. I hope this movie is a Christmas present to all Australians after such a hard year,” said director Christiaan Van Vuuren, best known as Dom in the Bondi Hipsters web series and TV series Soul Mates, making his feature debut here.
The movie is A Sunburnt Christmas, starring Daniel Henshall, Sullivan Stapleton, Ling Cooper Tang and Lena Nankivell, Eaden McGuiness and Tatiana Goode as the kids in this feel-good family comedy about a runaway criminal dressed as Santa hiding out in a rural property.
A Sunburnt Christmas is being shot in Adelaide and will premiere on Stan. later this year. It is being produced by Every Cloud Productions, the company behind Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
“Christmas is one of those occasions where my family love the ritual of sitting down together to watch something Christmassy,” said Every Cloud’s Fiona Eagger. “Last Christmas, I asked myself ‘where are our good Aussie Christmas films?’ A Sunburnt Christmas fills that void and celebrates what makes us uniquely Australian. It is a little bit irreverent, not very politically correct, has a big heart and is a lot funny. In a year where we could do with a little Christmas cheer, this is about creating our own miracles and finding faith in each other.”
