Elizabeth Simard

THE NEON KING is an Australian original short film exploring one explosive night between two best mates in 1970’s regional Australia.

May Downs, 1859. A white family making an overland journey to Rockhampton, with the assistance of Aboriginal staff, is stalled when the mother goes into labour. This loose adaptation of Wright’s eponymous historical account focuses on the female experience of colonisation, revealing the human costs of masculine avarice.