The Gods of Wheat Street

The Gods of Wheat Street
Genre	Drama
Created by	Jon Bell
Written by	Jon Bell
Directed by	Wayne Blair Catriona McKenzie Adrian Russell Wills
Starring	Kelton Pell Lisa Flanagan Shari Sebbens Bruce Carter Mark Coles Smith Rarriwuy Hick Miah Madden Ursula Yovich Brett Molloy Mouche Phillips
Composer(s)	Jeff Lang
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer(s)	Deborah Cox Fiona Eagger Erica Glynn Sally Riley
Producer(s)	Lois Randall
Production location(s)	Coraki,NSW, Australia Lismore, NSW, Australia Casino, NSW, Australia
Cinematography	Brendan Lavelle Murray Lui
Editor(s)	Suresh Ayyar Nicholas Beauman
Running time	57 minutes
Production company(s)	Every Cloud Productions
Distributor	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	16:9 HD
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	12 April (2014-04-12) – 17 May 2014 (2014-05-17)
External links
Official website
Production website

The Gods of Wheat Street is an Australian television drama series that screened on ABC TV from 12 April 2014. The six-part series tells the stories of the Freeburn clan, an Australian Aboriginal family.

Synopsis

Odin Freeburn, head of the family, is being pulled in all directions as he tries to keep his family together. Odin has one brother in jail, another brother is in love with the daughter of the family enemy and his wife has run away to the city leaving him to raise their two daughters. To complicate matters, his employer has just died, his sister-in-law is in love with him and the spirit of his mother Eden has come back on a mission to protect the important destiny of the Freeburn family line.

Cast

• Kelton Pell as Odin Freeburn
• Lisa Flanagan as Libby Lavelle
• Shari Sebbens as Isolde Freeburn
• Ursula Yovich as Eden Freeburn
• Mark Coles Smith as Tristan Freeburn
• Bruce Carter as Ares Freeburn
• Rarriwuy Hick as Electra Freeburn
• Miah Madden as Athena Freeburn
• Tessa Rose as Teri Lavelle
• David Field as Harry Hamilton
• Millie Samuels as Anastasia Hamilton
• Mouche Phillips as Petra Hamilton
• Alfie Gledhill as Fables
• Lauren Hamilton Neill as Shaz
• Frederick Copperwaite as Jonesy Brown
• Richard Green as Knuckles
• Jack Charles as Old Uncle
• Gregory J Fryer
• Isaiah Smith as Bucky
• Luke Carroll as Wayne
• Riley Nottingham as Constable Craig Woods

Production

The series is written by Jon Bell, who is also a producer with Lois Randall. Executive producers are Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox from Every Cloud Productions along with Sally Riley, ABC TV’s head of Indigenous Unit. It is directed by Catriona McKenzie, Wayne Blair and Adrian Wills. The show was filmed around Casino and Lismore in Northern NSW in late 2012.