NEWCASTLE actor Dean Kyrwood will present a special screening of Australian film The Flood on Thursday at Kotara.
The Flood is a thought-provoking film which reimagines white Australia's mistreatment of Indigenous people and turns it into a fury of western-style retribution.
One critic has described it as "an explosive blend of Tarantino and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith."
We take a roller coaster ride, reimagining history, where women of the era radicalize and push back on expectations.
Victoria Wharfe McIntyre
The film is set during the Second World War and follows Jarah (Alexis Lane), who marries an Aboriginal man Waru (Shaka Cook). While Waru is away serving in the war, he and Jarah's daughter, Binda, is taken by the authorities and sent to work on the cattle property of Gerard Mackay.
This results in a bloody feud between Jarah and Waru and the Mackay family, led by the vicious Shamus, played by Kyrwood.
The Flood is writer-director Victoria Wharfe McIntyre's debut full-length feature, after several acclaimed short films including The Telegram Man and Miro.
"We take a roller coaster ride, reimagining history, where women of the era radicalize and push back on expectations," McIntyre says of The Flood.
"Through living lives of their own choosing they highlight the choices and actions of the brutal society around them."
Kyrwood, along with Shaka Cook, will conduct a Q&A session at the film's special screening at Event Cinemas Kotara on Thursday at 7pm.
Kyrwood is enjoying a break out year, despite COVID-19 stymieing the film industry.
The musician and model has also starred in the drama Moon Rock For Monday, horror film Beast No More and director Alex Proyas' Mask of the Evil Apparition.
Kyrwood has also racked up television appearances on Doctor Doctor, Home and Away, Airlock, 2.22,Book Week and The Osiris Child.
