High Country’s Leah Purcell on funding local TV to ‘compete’ [Video]

Leah Purcell – the Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri actor at the heart of the new BINGE Original series, High Country – believes that First Nations and multicultural stories need more funding to achieve the international success experienced by the likes of Wentworth and Deadloch.

“We’ve made a start in the last five years. I’ve been a part of shows now from different cultural backgrounds, so I see the change, I’ve been part of it,” Purcell told Mediaweek at the world premiere of High Country in Melbourne last night.

“Put the money into our stories, so we can compete. I think our stories are absolutely international, it’s whether we’ve got the money to put the time and effort into production that’s the standard out there …