With a diverse ensemble cast, New Gold Mountain is a four-part revisionist Western drama series, beginning in one week on Wednesday, October 13.
The goldrush is nearly here, as we countdown to the premiere of the bold, ruthless and darkly humorous new Australian drama New Gold Mountain next week on Wednesday, 13 October on SBS and SBS On Demand.
New Gold Mountain airs over two big weeks premiering Wednesday 13 October at 9:30pm and continuing on Thursday 14 October, Wednesday 20 October, and Thursday 21 October at 9:30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand.
New Gold Mountain assembles one of the largest and most diverse cast ever to be assembled on Australian screens, with more than 65 speaking roles, in multiple languages and with more than half of those roles filled by Australian actors of Chinese descent.
This epic four-part series is one not to be missed, as a stellar ensemble cast brings to screen for the very first time the remarkable and untold story of the Chinese miners who arrived in the Victorian Goldfields in the 1850s. Using inspired-by-real-life characters and shining a light on forgotten events, this revisionist Western is based in the harsh wild west era of the Australian gold rush and unearths a captivating murder mystery.
Filmed in Sovereign Hill, and around Melbourne and regional Victoria, the series opens in Ballarat in 1857, where European, Chinese and Indigenous Australian characters live together in a wild-west frontier town as they seek to strike it rich by finding gold.
Produced by Goalpost Television and Directed by Corrie Chen (Homecoming Queens, Wentworth), New Gold Mountain is helmed by Mulan and Dead Lucky’s Yoson An; Vikings’ Alyssa Sutherland; Christopher James Baker from True Detective; Dan Spielman (The Code); Mabel Li (The Tailings); Leonie Whyman (Redfern Now); Sam Wang (Runaway Millionaires); Rhys Muldoon (Informer 3838); Alison Bell (The Letdown); Chris Masters Mah (Underbelly Files: Chopper); and Travis Cotton (Romper Stomper).
The series will be subtitled in Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean​ and will be added to the subtitled collection on SBS On Demand.
New Gold Mountain is a Goalpost Television production for SBS. Major production investment from Screen Australia, in association with SBS. Financed with support from Film Victoria and Screen NSW. all3media International is the global partner on the show.