In the opal mining red dirt of Andamooka, South Australia; a son faces the memories of the mysterious disappearance of his father in a great flooding storm, while the same storm appears on his own horizon. — The South Australian desert is a mystical place - millennia ago it was an ocean, and opalised aquatic dinosaur fossils are still found in the dirt there today. It is home to an arid land and deep, old magic. It is a place of endless sweeping salt flats and undulating flat red earth. Andamooka is where the frontier is, and the last of the great Australian frontiersmen call it home. The land is a stolen land, and a cursed land - and the magic of that wound has a unique way of working on the people that are born there new, and those who came before. — Executive Producers: Julianne English, Cameron Gray, Matthew Helderman, Johnathan Sheldon, Cameron Cubbison, John Rhodes, Angela Thompson, and Ian Thompson.
Producer, Director & Writer: Matthew Thorne
Producer: Steven Garrett
Associate Producer: Zoe Edema
Location Production Manager: Lara Lukich
Location Logistics Coordinator: Katalin Wilby
Director of Photography: Aaron McLisky Director of Photography (Pickups): Andrew Gough
Production Designer: Benjamin Ashley
Editor: Katerina Borys
Sound Designer: Chris O'Neill
VFX Supervisor: Pedro Motta Colourist: Daniel Stonehouse
Original Music Composed by Luke Howard Album available online (via Mercury KX — Apple Music, Spotify, most other streaming services) Album available on vinyl (via Hobbledehoy Records — https://hobbledehoyrecords.com/store/luke-howard-the-sand-that-ate-the-sea/)
First AD: Christopher Seeto Steadicam: Tim Walsh 1st AC: Chris Braga 2nd AC / Data Wrangler: Danielle Payne Gaffer: Max Gerschabach Grip: Martin Fargher Sound Recordist: Luke Fuller Art Director: Aisha Phillips Art Department Assistant: John Flaws Assembly Editor: Rolando Olalia Assistant Editors: Eliza Cox, Shannon Michaelas, Jana Plumm Compositor (The Refinery): Chris Betteridge Additional Sound Design: Daniel Mueller, Soren Maryasin Dialogue Editing: Brendan O'Neill Title Design: Nadeem Tiafau Kokatha Community Liaison: Glen Wingfield Editorial by The Butchery Sound Design by FrostFire Audio VFX by Push VFX Colour by Crayon DCP by Postlab.io Camera Equipment provided by Gearhead Opals Provided by Dukes Bottle House Motel & Andamooka Opal Showroom Catering by Tanya Simpson, Pippa Stafford and Charlie Sim Produced with the assistance of the ScreenCraft Short Film Grant & Bondit Media Finance Additional Cast: Stacey Dadleh, John Wilby, Paul Uhlik, Taj Gow-Smith, Clive "Spready" Spreadborough, Alan "Staffy" Stafford Heath, Stefan Bilka, Joe Sach, Drago "Tarzan" Antic, Val Harrison, Mash Clifford, Annie Uhlik, Jacinta Carrr, Tanya Simpson, Pippa Stafford, Claudia Mitchell, Greta Howard, Nikki Johnson Special thanks to Greg Franklin, Jack Hutchings, Matt Glasser, Freya Maddock, Jospeh Sach, Margot Duke, Simon Quilliam, Peter Taubers, Lester & Gill Rowley, John West, Clint & Jodie Gow-Smith, Stefan Bilka, Kendal Secker, Conan "The Barbarian" Fahey, Samantha Collings, Mandy Masters, Rebecca Dugan, Rachael Ford-Davies, Greg "Greggie" Franklin, Cowel Electric, APOMA, The Pool Collective, Andamooka SES, Andamooka CFS, Charle & Co. Coffee, Roxby Travel and Cruise, Andamooka Boo-Teek Op-Shop, Coates Hire Roxby Downs, Roxby Downs Motocross Club, The Tuckerbox & Staff For the community of Andamooka, South Australia.