Griff the Invisible: an Australian superhero

Writer/director Leon Ford, producer Nicole O’Donohue, and actors Ryan Kwanten and Maeve Dermody – the team behind Griff the Invisible – reveal how a project with a modest budget and a lot of heart and imagination became Australia’s first superhero movie.

“It’s the first, but people are not thinking ‘We’ll go see that American movie, or that Australian film’. It will sit amongst all the films in release,” Ford told Encore.

What is the story behind Griff the Invisible?

LEON FORD: I wrote the first draft in 2005. [Producer] Nicole O’Donohue and I were about to shoot a 30-minute film financed by Screen Australia, so they were building us up to shoot a feature. Then we drafted Griff a few times, went into the IndiVision script lab and basically got the green light from Screen Australia in January 2009.