Pursued

*Pursued* is a sci-fi/action feature about Jan, a homeless, getaway driver, fleeing across the Australian outback after a simple job goes bad. Already pursued by her employer, and the white-supremacist motorcycle cult he attempted to ripoff, things go from bad to worse when a “big, black tumbleweed thing with claws” joins in on the chase. Audiences have always enjoyed stories of down-on-their-luck people who, despite their exceptional abilities, must constantly battle against society’s entrenched prejudices. *Pursued* takes this setup and ratchets up the stakes. Not only must Jan look after herself, she must also protect a naïve bystander from both, the criminals pursuing her and the ravenous Tumbleweed. In addition to the external threats pursuing Jan, she must also battle her own physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. A fatigue so intense that, despite the her fear and anger, she has trouble staying awake and trusting what she sees. This makes keeping control of a speeding car on the broken asphalt road even more difficult. The struggle to, figuratively, keep one’s head above water while dealing with a stream of new complications, is something modern audiences are, unfortunately, only too familiar with. And so, watching Jan doggedly battle on, is something they will find easy to relate to, and cheer for. *Pursued* begins in the relative safety of suburban Australian at the start of a summer day. We meet Jan, down on her luck and living in her car, but still cocky. Not long after, we find her in the middle of the outback, in the dead of night, rich beyond her dreams, but exhausted, terrified, and fleeing for her life. Despite the bulk of the story being set in the outback, *Pursued* features a fun mix of characters ranging from an assorted array of criminals from the big cities, a handful of quirky locals, and an odd, middle-class couple out on a road trip. *Pursued* is a fun mix of (dare I say it?) a Guy Ritchie-esque crime caper, 1970s hi-octane, car-chase movies, and an otherworldly creature feature, in which our protagonist triumphs by doggedly ‘keeping on going in the hope something turns up’. --- learn more in the PITCH DECK – see below