Underground: The Julian Assange Story

Directed by Robert Connolly

Produced by Film Victoria, Screen Australia

A tense, idea-driven biographical drama about idealistic hackers challenging state power, caught between youthful conviction and the paranoid machinery of government surveillance.

In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.