David Pulbrook’s debut feature film, Last Dance, starring AFI Award winning actress Julia Blake (Innocence,The Boys Are Back, Bed of Roses), Firass Dirani (Killer Elite, Underbelly) and Alan Hopgood (The Games) commenced principle photography on Monday 7 November in and around St Kilda, Melbourne.
Written by Pulbrook and Terence Hammond, the film follows the story of Sadiq Mohammad (Dirani), a young radical Palestinian who, after fleeing from a failed suicide bombing of a synagogue, holds hostage Ulah Lippman (Blake), a holocaust survivor, in her apartment. Desperately wounded, Sadiq hides in Ulah’s flat, planning his next move. As the police close in, Sadiq and Ulah are forced to confront their own pasts as their present collide.