Bogtown
Format: Feature Film (90–100 mins)
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Redemption Drama
Setting: A fictional rural town in Australia; both present day and mid-1990s
Tone: Surreal, heartfelt, irreverent, nostalgic
Logline: When dodgy developer Wayne Miller suffers a freak brain seizure on the way to cash in on a scheme to destroy his childhood hometown, he wakes up trapped in the mind of his 15-year-old self. Wedged between his rebellious teenage spirit and his shady adult ambitions, Wayne must rally the quirky townsfolk to save ‘Bogtown’ – and himself – before it’s too late.
Synopsis
Wayne Miller has spent his life running from Bogtown — the swampy, half-forgotten rural community that raised him — and is now returning to bury it for good. A slick, morally bankrupt property developer, Wayne is en route to close a lucrative deal that will erase the town from existence under a tidal wave of concrete, casinos, and caravan parks. But fate has other plans. After suffering a freak brain seizure on the road, Wayne wakes up in the body — and mind — of his 15-year-old self.
What begins as a medical anomaly becomes a full-blown existential crisis. Trapped in a hormonal fugue state and bouncing between past and present, Wayne must confront the youthful idealism he buried under decades of ambition, the friendships he betrayed, and the secret he swore he’d never speak of again.
As his adult self stumbles through business meetings with a childlike lens and his teen consciousness rekindles bonds with old Bogtown misfits, Wayne is forced to face the wreckage his life has left behind. To save the town — and himself — he’ll need to rally an unlikely alliance of burnouts, barflies, and bingo ladies before the final deal goes through.
Bogtown is a surreal, funny, and unexpectedly tender story of redemption, identity, and second chances — a tale of what happens when the worst version of yourself meets the best version, and you only have days to choose who survives.
Concept
Bogtown is a 100-minute feature film blending absurdist fantasy, small-town satire, and emotional drama. At its heart, it’s a redemptive fable about modern greed colliding with buried ideals, set in a quirky Australian town whose best days are behind it — or so it thinks.
Told through a dual consciousness — one middle-aged, jaded, and corporate; the other teenage, passionate, and chaotic — the film explores how memory, regret, and identity can twist across time. The film’s world is grounded yet surreal, with heightened comedic moments and emotionally resonant stakes. The visual style leans toward magical realism — sun-bleached landscapes, VHS-hued memories, and unsettlingly mundane corporate absurdity.
Like Being John Malkovich meets Local Hero, Bogtown navigates the bittersweet intersection of past and present with wit and heart. It asks: what if the only way to move forward… was backward?
Development Stage
1st Draft Completed – 2nd Draft Underway
