created by Sandy Greenwood An Aboriginal Australian actress chasing her childhood Hollywood dream is sung home by her Ancestors. A Traditional Custodian, she must protect her Totem, the Dunggirr (Koala), in a landmark legal fight against native forest logging, then return to the City of Angels, in her power, for unfinished business. SYNOPSIS MOODBOARD TONE COMPS Erin Brockovich 2000 Budget $52.0M Box Of ce $256.3M Kangaroo Island 2025 Budget $50,000 Box Of ce $536,000 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Budget $1.75M Box Of ce $5M YARRILA 38. Gumbaynggirr woman. Traditional Custodian. Actor and writer. Raised on an Aboriginal mission on the mid-North Coast of NSW, Yarrila grew up poor in money and rich in culture: family, Country, stories, and the matriarchs who came before her. Her mother is a survivor of the Stolen Generations. Her father is the black sheep of a wealthy white family who ran away and married for love. Her father is white, and Yarrila is fair-skinned, the one who looks white in a family of dark-skinned Elders and cousins. But she is Gumbaynggirr to her core. Even as a little girl running wild on the mission and in the bush, she feels a pull to old Hollywood, something she could never have known in the 1980s. Past life, or something deeper, the spirit of Jean Harlow has followed her ever since. Yarrila feels she must fulfil the dreams of Harlow, and her own. Two fires burn in her. One dreams of stages, films and Hollywood. The other is a fierce drive to right the wrongs of the past and fight for her people, her culture and her Country. Charismatic, funny, ambitious and deeply romantic, she chases the dream from humble theatres all the way to Hollywood. She auditions. The opportunities come. But every time she gets close, her own self-doubt pulls her back. Low self-esteem becomes a saboteur she can't name, and she undermines her own efforts. Then her marriage collapses, and she comes home broke and heartbroken. When forestry operations threaten sacred sites on her ancestral Country, she steps forward. Guided by her ancestors, she finds her cultural responsibility and the power of her own voice. The dreamer who wants to shine. The warrior born to fight for something bigger than herself. Yarrila must be both. WORLD TONE AND STYLE CREATOR Sandy Greenwood is a Gumbaynggirr Traditional Custodian from New South Wales, Australia. She is an actor, writer, producer and filmmaker whose work is grounded in the strength, survival and stories of First Nations women. Sandy holds a First Class Honours degree in Theatre and has trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Atlantic Acting School in New York and The Groundlings in Los Angeles. As a performer, Sandy made her feature film debut in Killer Elite starring Jason Statham and Robert DeNiro, and has also worked with Australia’s leading production companies building a career across theatre, screen, film, television and voice performance. Her acclaimed solo work Matriarch traces four generations of Gumbaynggirr women through colonisation, survival and cultural resilience. Her performance earned her the prestigious Green Room Award for Best Actor in Independent Theatre in Australia, and she has subsequently been nominated for Sydney Theatre Awards for leading roles in Sydney. Sandy is also an award-winning filmmaker. She produced and directed the short documentary Nguura Muruy about the preservation of sacred sites on Gumbaynggirr country, which won Best Short at the Tulum World Environment Film Festival in Mexico. She is the founder of Jinda Productions which has developed work across film, theatre, television and audio, with a commitment to stories centring First Nations women, Country and the natural world. Phone +61 416 733 653 Email jindaproductions@gmail.com CONTACT