Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse

What do you do when you get trapped in an abandoned building during a zombie apocalypse?

Write a song about it, of course.

Four music-obsessed teens are on a mission to win triple j Unearthed High - so the end of the world will have to wait. Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse is a 10 x 1/2 hour series offering action-packed, cranked-to-11, zombie-fuelled fun, underscored with music from Australia's hottest new bands.

This series contains an expansive soundtrack that showcases the diversity and strength of Australia's best emerging musicians. Featuring tunes from favourites Ruby Fields, Caroline and Claude, The Rions, HYG, Teenage Joans, Beddy Rays, Smol Fish, Fritz, Maia, Vacation Club and more. 

Starring newcomers Mina-Siale, Nick Annas, Ruby Archer and Isaiah Galloway, this series finds bandmates Ella and Nick stuck in a zombie-infested ABC building, surviving on vending machine snacks while they try to finish off the song that'll take them to the big leagues. But when Ella's high school nemesis, Veronica, and Nick's crippling celebrity crush, Locksley, appear out of thin air, they feel their chances of escaping and - more importantly - of winning Unearthed High start to slip away. 

Soundtrack to Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse unpacks the experience of COVID lockdown and the conflicting, challenging emotions many have felt over the last few years. This is a story about complex friendships, resilience, and empowerment through creativity during uncertain times, mixed with the thrills and chills of a zombie classic.

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Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse is an ABC Original production, created and developed by Executive Producer Mary-Ellen Mullane and Supervising Producer Lyndal Mebberson, of the ABC Children's Department.

The series is directed by Imogen McCluskey, AFTRS Graduate and alumnus of the prestigious American Film Institute Directing program. Imogen's first feature film 'Suburban Wildlife' was runner-up for the Audience Award at Sydney Film Festival and she was honoured as the Debut Director for the London Australian Film Festival in 2019.

Rounding out the team are writers Adam Bigum and Hannah Samuel. Adam has worked as a head-writer for ABC ME's Definitely Not News, written over 1,300 scripts for Snapchat, produced award-winning short films and racked up millions views on YouTube. Hannah has worked in-house at Matchbox Pictures and wrote Wentworth: The Fall Girl, a narrative podcast series for Audible, for which she was highly commended in the Mona Brand Early Career Award. She has since written episodes on the children's television series: The PM's Daughter (Fremantle/ABC) and Rock Island Mysteries (Fremantle/Nickelodeon).

Photo by: Andy Baker