Filming Commences on New ABC TV Drama Series

SYDNEY, February 15: Filming began this week in Mount
Barker, South Australia, for the new six-part drama series Rain Shadow from Southern Star Entertainment for public
broadcaster ABC TV.

Rain Shadow is set in the dry land farming community of Paringa,
where the district vet Kate McDonald, played by Rachel Ward, is battling to
keep her community afloat in the face of an unrelenting drought. Forced by
necessity, Kate hires a new veterinary assistant named Jill Blake, played by
Victoria Thaine. While the two opinionated women have a hard time getting
along, they must work together if they want to protect the livelihood of their
community. The other members of the Australian cast include Gary Sweet, Carmel
Johnson, Nathaniel Dean, Heather Mitchell, Kim Knuckey, Shane Withington, Tom
O’Sullivan, Jamie Harding, Michaela Cantwell, Nathin Butler, Grant Piro and
Panda Likoudis.

"The relationship between
these two women is at the heart of Rain Shadow,” said Miranda Dear, an executive producer at the ABC. “As the novice
vet with high hopes and new ideas struggles to understand her strange new
environment, and a boss who seems impossible to please, we enter a world where
animals are a livelihood and hard decisions often need to be made."