Selected for Sundance, where it picked up the World Cinema Audience Award [Drama], Iranian-Australian writer/director Noora Niasari's film stars Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider), Leah Purcell, Osamah Sami,
The New Boy will also star Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair, produced by Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Thornton’s Samson & Delilah collaborator Kath Shelper.