Cameras roll on ABC ME’s MaveriX

Production is underway in Alice Springs on ABC ME drama series MaveriX, set in the world of motocross.

MaveriX follows a group of junior riders that make up the first intake of the MaveriX Academy. MaveriX is a bold experiment in next-level riding designed to push them to their limits, supercharge their talents and set them on a course to the big time. At the Academy the six gifted individual riders will spend six weeks over the summer holidays in one of the most challenging yet beautiful environments known to humankind. Here they must learn to race as a team – or fail.

The series introduces six young actors as the future junior motocross champs at the MaveriX Academy. Darcy Tadich as Scott has a big heart –and a major challenge on his hands as he learns to lead a team. Tatiana Goode plays Jenny who has a will to win but can she take care of herself at the same time? Sam Winspear-Schillings is Bear with mad skills you can’t teach, and a wild streak. Tdjiirm McGuire stars as Richie a teenager with plenty of courage to ride but not to take on his parents. Sebastian Tang plays Kaden, a rider with stacks of talent and the sense of entitlement to go with it too. Charlotte Maggi as Angelique has strategised all her life – to survive, not to race!

They join Jane Harber (Offspring, The Moodys) and Rohan Nichol (Home and Away, A Place To Call Home).

The series is produced by Brindle Films’ Rachel Clements and Trisha Morton-Thomas who collaborated on Finke: There and Back, and is written by Sam Meikle (Wakefield), Fin Edquist (100% Wolf), Michelle Offen (East West 101) Kelly Schilling (Two Twisted) and Sarinah Masukor. Directors include Isaac Elliott (The Legend of Burnout Barry), Ian Watson (Doctor Doctor) and Geoff Bennett (Bump).

It will now premiere in 2022.

Production credit:
MAVERIX is a Brindle Films production for the ABC. Major production investment from Screen Australia in association with the ABC, Screen Territory and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and financed with support from the South Australian Film Corporation. The executive producers are Bernadette O’Mahony, Mary-Ellen Mullane and creators Rachel Clements, Sam Meikle and Isaac Elliott.