It should be 7 million people talking about this movie; not 7 hundred. It's brilliant! Saw it at a special screening today and cannot praise it highly enough. Go see it; it will make your Aussie heart swell with pride. And privately funded, would you believe? Shame on the broadcasters for not supporting them; I hope this film makes a fortune for this talented husband and wife team.
Irena Williams

Congratulations on a fabulous film. I was in the audience at Lismore yesterday. It was great to hear some of your story Russell. I loved that there was no commentary and the horses and humans were able to speak for themselves. The last shots of the horses standing on the truck - their eyes said it all - what an achievement for all involved!
In the fifties I spent all my childhood holidays on the Blue Mountains hooning around the bush on horses. We once rode from Leura, across the King's Tablelands, down the pass and right through the Kedumba valley out to the water's edge of the new Lake Burragorang, and back, in a day. The brumbies down there were very similar types to the horses in the film, but round the other side of Mount Solitary. We used to go down to Megalong Valley to watch the 'Scatter Races' and go to the dance afterwards. I guess the Carlons would have been there. So much of the story in the film resonated with my past. We took my mum's ashes to the Cox's River after she died in 2011.
I haven't thought about a film so much in years. Thankyou.
Toni Appleton


An extremely powerful and emotional movie, which deeply moved me. It showed the love of the land and the compassion of the horsemen for the brumbies. Luke Carlon typified the Australian bushman and I feel this movie should be compulsory viewing for schools so pupils can get a feel for what Australia was built on. This movie gets my Oscar.
Robert de Bondt

Can we finish this film?
We have changed the name. Originally it was called "Last Riders of the Burragorang". I liked this title but no one seemed to be able to say it or remember it even. We were pushing the proverbial up the hill. Some of my friends had jokingly called the project "The Man from Coxs River' in reference of course to the famous Banjo Patterson poem.
 It wasn't until I went on a 3 day horse odyssey with Luke up to visit his family plaque near Kanangra Walls on the Cox's River that I realised it actually was the perfect title for the film.
This film is Luke's story.
Although there are some other wonderful characters in the film- Norma Carlon, Jason Carlon ,Adam Boyd, Chris Banffy, Takao Suzuki and Steve Mills, this really is one mans journey out of the past and into the future.
It's about adapting to your environment and doggedly achieving the near impossible.
It's about being wild and free and how hard that is in our modern world.
Im sure the film wont please every one.
We seek only to record the story as we found it.
People have differing opinions on the Brumbies of the Burragorang.
We'll show them to you and you can make up your own mind.
We believe this is an important story.
We've spent a good part of 3 years so far making it so it'd better be.
We look forward to sharing it with you.