Private Project

Orange Boy

In a world infested by fruit flies, Cam follows his visions and journeys to the Riverland in search of the extinct orange fruit—while his family’s power company, Mizen, begins to collapse under pressure.

  • Jack Wong
    Director
  • Jack Wong
    Writer
  • Sarah Moulton
    Producer
  • Jack Wong
    Key Cast
    "Cam"
    Aftertaste, Mortal Kombat
  • Nicole Schoen
    Key Cast
    "Linda"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 40 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English, Vietnamese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Jack Wong

Jack Wong is a young Asian Australian filmmaker whose work explores identity, family, and cultural displacement through a contemporary lens. Having studied Acting and Filmmaking at Flinders University, he brings a performance-driven sensitivity to his directing, grounding his stories in nuanced, character-focused storytelling.

He makes his feature debut with Orange Boy, weaving Vietnamese-Australian culture into a narrative shaped by power struggles, belonging and familial legacy. His work balances cultural specificity with universal emotional resonance, engaging audiences without compromising authenticity.

Working within the constraints of independent cinema, Wong adopts a hybrid of micro-budget and guerrilla filmmaking—at times operating as a one-person crew cast—creating a sense of immediacy and intimacy on screen.

His style blends intimate drama with stylised, atmospheric visuals, reflecting both his training and a distinct personal voice, with a focus on stories at the intersection of heritage and modern Australian life.

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Director Statement

Orange Boy started in the Riverland of South Australia, a place I’ve lived and worked in for a year. The Big Orange is just there—this mysterious roadside monument I drive past repeatedly. After a visit from family and friends, we stopped and took photos with it like tourists. Something clicked. That’s where the film began and the story came to me.

At its centre is Cam, a young man whose name translates to “orange” in Vietnamese, fixates on finding the orange fruit hidden within the Big Orange. From this image, the film expands into questions of identity, inheritance, and power—how they quietly shape a person.
Power runs through the film both literally, through Cam’s father, Thai Son, the owner and leader of Mizen Power Corporation, and metaphorically as ambition, control, and resistance. When writing our character Cam, he emerged as an anti-hero who lives within through this world and conditions truthfully and without apology.

The Riverland is not just a setting but a structural presence. Its stillness, repetition, and scale shaped the rhythm of the film, as if the landscape was writing 'Orange Boy' with me.

We made the film on a micro-budget with a minimal crew, working in a guerrilla way - sometimes filming in a one-man crew cast (it's possible!). 'Less is more' wasn’t something I set out to apply as a rule, but it naturally became how the film was made and how we did everything for Orange Boy – where simplicity hits the hardest. We hope you enjoy our Australian feature 'Orange Boy'.