“Lead actor Brenton Thwaites gives a delightful performance as a man lost in love and Lily Sullivan will captivate audiences just as much as Lucy entrances Devon.
Debut director Luke Eve uses a vibrant and colourful Pop Art palette that entertains the eye while bringing Glen Dolman’s passionate and compassionate script to life.”
Russell Edwards – Busan International Film Festival
ABOUT THE FILM
I Met A Girl follows the story of Devon (Brenton Thwaites), an aspiring musician with schizophrenia who is dependent on his older brother, Nick (Joel Jackson) to care for him. However, when Nick’s wife, Olivia (Zahra Newman) becomes pregnant, they arrange for Devon to move out. On a downward spiral, Devon is saved by Lucy (Lily Sullivan) a mysterious girl who is just as impulsive and romantic as he is. After one day together, they fall completely in love. Devon then arranges for Nick to meet her, but Lucy doesn’t show. They try to find her but her apartment is empty. Nick suspects that Lucy is a delusion, while Devon, desperate to prove his sanity, discovers a note that she wrote him: meet me in Sydney. And Devon sets off on an epic, cross-country journey to find her; the girl of his dreams… who may be all in his head.
Cast
BRENTON THWAITES
“DEVON CASSIDY”, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & STAR
Brenton is an acclaimed Australian actor who has starred as the lead in several US productions including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales alongside Johnny Depp, Alex Proyas’s adventure thriller Gods of Egypt with Gerard Butler, the Disney fantasy film Maleficent alongside Angelina Jolie, the sci-fi thriller The Signal with Laurence Fishburne, and director Phillip Noyce’s The Giver alongside Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep. Brenton can currently be seen playing the lead role of Dick Grayson AKA Robin/Nightwing in the DC Universe series Titans, based on the DC Comics team of the same name, and the lead role in Eric Bess' Ghosts of War.
Despite Brenton's overseas success he has often returned to his home country, which has seen him star in the Australian crime thriller Son of a Gun with Ewan McGregor, and the feature film Ruben Guthrie, written and directed by Brendan Cowell.
LILY SULLIVAN
“LUCY”
Lily made her feature film debut in 2012 in PJ Hogan’s Mental, opposite Toni Collette and Liev Schreiber which earned her an AACTA Award nomination for Best Young Actor and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award nomination for Best Performance by a Young Actor. Lily’s television credits include the NBC series Camp, alongside Rachel Griffiths and the critically acclaimed television series Rake, with Richard Roxburgh.
Lily recently completed filming the US series Barkskins, and the 2nd series of the Australian comedy series The Other Guy. Lily starred as ‘Miranda’ in the 6-part series Picnic at Hanging Rock which screened on Foxtel, Amazon, Canal+ and the BBC. She also starred in Romper Stomper for Stan, the long-awaited series which follows on twenty years after the events in the critically acclaimed film of the same name, and appeared in Greg McLean’s feature film Jungle, opposite Daniel Radcliffe. Her other film credits include Sucker opposite Timothy Spall and Galore which won her the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Cinema des Antipodes Saint Tropez Film Festival.
JOEL JACKSON
“NICK CASSIDY”
Award winning Australian actor Joel Jackson starred in the Australian TV series Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries and was co lead in the feature film H Is For Happiness. Other credits include Greg McLean’s Jungle, alongside Daniel Radcliffe and in the AACTA award winning mini-series Safe Harbour. Celebrated for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Peter Allen in Channel Seven’s mini series Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, Joel Jackson received the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama and the TV Week Logie Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer –Actor for his performance. Previously, Joel starred in the award-winning mini series Deadline Gallipoli alongside Sam Worthington, Hugh Dancy and Charles Dance, earning Joel a second AACTA Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama. On television, Joel appeared in a guest role in the NINE Network’s Hyde & Seek and in Playmaker Media’s TV series The Wrong Girl –Season 2.
ALSO STARRING
ZAHRA NEWMAN – “OLIVIA”
DAVID WOODS – “SOUL”
ANNI FINSTERER – “MISS NEEDLES”
PETER ROWSTHORN – “MR ROCKET”
ANITA HEGH – “PATRICIA”
MARIA ALBINANA – “MATILDA”
MARGARET MILLS – “HELEN CASSIDY”
MURRAY DOWSETT – “IAN CASSIDY”
EMILY GASH – “EMMA”
MAITLAND SCHNAARS – “TOMMY”
LIAM GRAHAM – “FERGUS”
MICHAEL ABERCROMBY – “PAWN SHOP GUY”
JESSE JAMES – “TV HOST”
DAN PARIS – “TV HOST”
Crew
LUKE EVE – DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Luke, a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, has directed a number of short films including multi-award winner Cockroach, and Australian Summer, winner of Tropfest.
For television he directed Dave in The Life, SEX: An Unnatural History and the landmark documentary series Great Southern Land which landed him an ADG nomination for best direction in a documentary TV series. In 2014 Luke created, produced and directed the online series, Low Life: A Black Comedy About Depression. It went on to win over 20 major festival awards. In 2017 he completed directing and producing the follow up series, High Life which won over 30 major awards including Best Digital Original at C21 Content London and was also nominated for an AACTA Award. It took out the Web Series World Cup for 2017 for being the most awarded and successful web series of the year.
During this year’s pandemic Luke created, produced, directed and acted in one of the world’s first multi-national lockdown series, CANCELLED. The series produced in Australia, Spain and Argentina launched on Facebook Watch and has had over 2 million views.
GLEN DOLMAN – WRITER
Glen created, wrote and executive produced two seasons of the Logie winning, supernatural drama series Bloom starring Jacki Weaver, Bryan Brown and Phoebe Tonkin for Stan in Australia. In 2017 he wrote the web series comedy-drama High Life and won the C21 International Drama Award. He previously wrote the TV movies, Hawke, based on the controversial life of former Prime Minster, Bob Hawke (winning an Australian Writers’ Guild Award and three Australian Film Institute Awards, including for best telemovie or mini-series) and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab for the ABC, adapted from the 19th century classic novel. His other television credits include the animated series Flipper & Lopaka, the puppet series Li’l Horrors, the sci-fi series Silversun, the dramas Head Start and Always Greener, the UK’s longest running crime drama The Bill(ITV), the Cartoon Network sitcom My Spy Family and RTE’s IFTA-award winning medical series The Clinic, the highest rating Irish drama.
ADAM DOLMAN – PRODUCER
Adam Dolman, a Master of Arts graduate from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, produced the AACTA nominated High Life starring Odessa Young. Adam was story consultant on the TV series Bloom, has written for the animated TV series Lexi & Lottie and the long running TV series Home & Away, has worked in creative development for US film producer Barrie M Osborne (producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and in film finance for Limelight International. He was Financing Consultant on the feature Little Fish and as Co-Executive Producer on Undertow. In 2005 Adam received the Kenneth Myer Fellowship to write a paper on international financing for Australian feature films. He was development manager at film investment company Mullis Capital, production managed TVCs for Sadako Films, worked in theatrical film distribution for Footprint Films and on productions as line producer, production co-ordinator and production secretary.
