»Satellite Boy is a love letter to my father. He’s gone now – he’ll never see the film – but I wanted to let him know that I finally understood his process. I was adopted and always wanted to find my birth mother. Perhaps in my quest to find her I rejected, for a time, who he was.«
– Catriona McKenzie, filmmakermagazine

Pete is ten years old and lives with his grandfather Jagamarra on the site of an abandoned outdoor cinema in the Australian outback. Though he misses his mother, Pete manages to put up with the repetitive stories of his granddad who is trying to inspire him for the old Aborigine ways and the secrets of nature. Pete prefers to spend his time with his best friend Kalmain. But when news arrives that the cinema has been bought up by a mining company and is to be demolished, things change. Realising that his home is under threat, Peter refuses to accept the destruction without a fight. He and Kalmain set off for town with every intention of getting the company boss to change his mind. When the two of them get lost in the desert, Pete discovers that the knowledge his granddad wants to pass on is suddenly of real value.
Two boys come of age, growing up from little rascals into genuine adventurers, in order to defend their home. A film with spectacular landscape photography that brings home to us the culture of the Aborigines and their situation in modern-day Australia.

Awards for ›Satellite Boy‹
Lobende Erwähnung, Kinderjury der Internationalen Filmfestspiele Berlin 2013