Preview by Steve Cooke
Manchester film-maker Kieron Moore’s new feature film, Secrets of a Wallaby Boy, is due for digital release at the end of October. Leading up to the release, Weird Rainbow Films are organising a tour of screening events with Q&As, including one at Manchester’s lovely LGBTQ+ venue Queer Lit/Social Refuge.
Secrets of a Wallaby Boy is a modern, queer update on cheeky British comedies like Confessions of a Window Cleaner, with a Black Mirror-esque edge of satire about the gig economy and AI.
It stars up-and-coming actors Brandon McCaffrey and Billie Hindle, alongside well-known names Mark Benton (Anna and the Apocalypse), Colin Baker (Doctor Who), and Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede 2 & 3).
McCaffrey stars as a young gay man called Tim, who is unfit, struggling to pay the rent, and desperately lacking in sex. In the hopes of turning his life around, he becomes a courier for the app Wallaby. Guided by AI marsupial Bruce (Baker), he fumbles his way through a number of awkward drop-offs and hookups but soon finds himself out of his depth when he uncovers a sinister conspiracy connecting Wallaby to a corrupt government minister (Harvey).
Secrets of a Wallaby Boy will be screened at Queer Lit/Social Refuge on Great Ancoats Street, at 7pm on Wednesday 2nd October. Joining us for a post-film Q&A will be writer/director Kieron Moore plus other members of the cast and crew.
Tickets are available now from tinyurl.com/WallabyLit
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