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The Warriors

Produced by Arenamedia

Producers: Robert Connolly, John Harvey and Liz Kearney
Writers: Jon Bell, Tracey Rigney, Tony Briggs, Wayne Blair
Directors: Adrian Russell Wills, Beck Cole, Steven McGregor, Catriona McKenzie

Airing: April - June 2017 (ABC)

Two young Indigenous players, Zane and Maki, are plucked from their modest lives to play in the big leagues — the AFL. The boys pack up and move interstate to the busy metropolis of Melbourne where their lives are turned upside down. Dislocated from traditional values, the boys struggle with their new-found celebrity and its lure of sex, drugs and fast living. (8x30min)