Nine months before a uranium-mine rescue drags him half-dead from the dark, a quiet man gets a phone call that starts pulling his life — and his timeline — apart.
Small-town dread in the vein of Wind River — opens on the rescue, then works backward into how it happened.
The story
Pace Mundhi is rescued from the flooded depths of a Northern WA uranium mine — strapped to a stretcher, cut and concussed, hauled up a 45-degree tunnel by SES volunteers. That’s where the film opens, and where it keeps returning. Nine months younger and clean-cut, Pace takes a midnight phone call from a woman in pieces, and the two timelines begin to braid together, each answering and complicating the other. Grounded, patient and quietly unnerving, Filter is Australian science-fiction in the Primer / Coherence tradition: no chrome, no exposition dumps — just an ordinary life slowly revealing a shape it shouldn’t have. This is the first 71 pages of the shooting draft.
Coverage — plot points
- A mine-collapse rescue frames the story — Pace pulled up head-first from the deep.
- Nine months earlier: a late-night call from a crying woman, Kate, fractures his ordinary life.
- Two timelines braid, each recontextualising the other.
- The “filter” of memory and cause slowly resolves into something stranger.
“This town will eat your soul.” — “What, literally?” — “Well… no.”
“I don’t actually know his number, because of the whole phone issue.”
Read the sample
Below is the existing draft — a sample of the final shooting script (71pp shown). Scroll to read, or download the PDF.
Seeking representation and/or a producing partner for feature film. Complete script available on request.