Principle photography on HOME was originally scheduled for February 2017 on location in the dry wheat-belt town of York, Western Australia. After the set was lost to extreme storms and floods across the region, it would take a full year for cast and crew schedules to realign before cameras finally rolled in early February 2018.
One of the favourite images of director Peter Gurbiel and cinematographer David Eggby ACS was filmed by accident. Actress Janella Nicoli was in the right position at the right time, the camera was rolling and the haunting and magical shot made it into the final film.
A major sequence shot on location in the Darling Ranges, Western Australia, did not make it into the finished film. Featuring extras dressed in period-correct wardrobe, horses, Irish wolf hounds and practical fire and fog effects, the sequence was not included due to pacing and the film's unique point of view, to the great disappointment of cinematographer David Eggby ACS.
HOME is adapted from the 1894 one-act play INTÉRIEUR by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck.