The Straits is an upcoming Australian television drama series for ABC1

ABC1

ABC1 was a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney using the branding of the Disney owned American network, ABC.The channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on 27 September 2004. On 10 December 2004 it was launched on...

  currently being filmed in Cairns and other Far North Queensland locations.

The series is based on an idea by actor Aaron Fa'aoso

Aaron Fa'aoso

Aaron Fa'aoso is an Australian television and film actor. He is of Torres Strait Islander and Tongan descent . His mother is from Saibai Island .-Career:...

 and produced by Penny Chapman and Helen Panckhurst from Matchbox Pictures. It is directed by Peter Andrikidis, Rachel Ward and Rowan Woods. It is written by Louis Nowra, Blake Ayshford, Nick Parsons, Kristen Dunphy and Jaime Browne.

Synopsis

The series follows the Montebello family, whose business involves smuggling drugs into Australia as well as guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands

Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea but Torres Strait Island known and Recognize as Nyumaria.The islands are mostly part of...

. When Harry Cox, the head of the family, starts to plan his succession, he sparks a vicious family power struggle, while under attack from ambitious bikies and mercurial Papua New Guinea raskols, the family must hold together through torture, assassination and imprisonment.

Cast

• Aaron Fa'aoso
  Aaron Fa'aoso
  Aaron Fa'aoso is an Australian television and film actor. He is of Torres Strait Islander and Tongan descent . His mother is from Saibai Island .-Career:...
  
  
• Brian Cox
• Rena Owen
  Rena Owen
  Rena Owen is a New Zealand actress in film, theatre and television. She is of Maori, Torres Strait Islander and Pakeha descent. Owen is most well known in the lead role of Beth in the cult classic movie Once Were Warriors directed by Lee Tamahori...
  
  
• Firass Dirani
  Firass Dirani
  Firass Dirani is an Australian actor known for his roles of Nick Russell, the Red Mystic Ranger on Power Rangers Mystic Force, Charlie on the 2009 Australian film The Combination, and as John Ibrahim on the 2010 series Underbelly: The Golden Mile....
  
  
• Jimi Bani
• Suzannah Bayes-Morton