Sundance TV has become the new American home for the Australian and New Zealand co-production, and the high-concept series Cleverman is scheduled to premiere in 2016, and will also appear at the Cannes TV Festival's Fall Film and Television Fair in October. Cleverman is set in a near-future era, where humans are increasingly uncomfortable with their living environment and want peace and quiet, so they provoke war against non-human creatures in the hope of enslaving or killing non-human creatures, and non-humans struggle to survive in the hardships of war. The original concept of the series was proposed by Ryan Griffen, telling the story of two native but emotionally estranged brothers who are forced to unite to fight for their own survival; these extraterrestrial creatures also have a dystopian sentiment towards the "real world". The series stars Scottish actors Iain Glen (Game of Thrones), Frances O'Connor (The Missing), Deborah Mailman (The Sapphires), Hunter Page-Lochard (The Sapphires), Rob Collins (The Lion King) and Stef Dawson (The Hunger Games). "Sundance TV has become the home for some of the most interesting TV shows in the world right now in the United States," said Joel Stillerman, head of original series development for AMC and Sundance TV. "We hope that Cleverman will join the Golden Globe Awards like Carlos did, and bring American audiences TV shows that they can't see anywhere else, like the French version of The Returned won an International Emmy. We have already started the original production of Cleverman and created character storylines and thought-provoking consequences, and the quality of the series will be as good as other Sundance TV series."