In Production
Updated July 15, 2010
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Encore’s Production Report lists features and television drama/factual content that are currently in development, pre-production, production and post-production.
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DRAMA
Features in Planning
A Life Half Lived
Writer/Dir: Denie Pentecost Prod: Paul Sullivan Description: When her best friend commits suicide, a 20-year-old girl, Nic, who can only feel emotion through others, realises that the secret to feeling is remembering a forgotten pain that they both shared as children.
The 34th Battalion
Pro Co: ScreenQuest Australia Pty Ltd Prod: Mandie Messenger Assoc. Pro: Ian Sparke, Luke Sparke, Mike Kent Writer: Ian & Luke Sparke Ass. Dir: Joshua Watkins, Nick McKinnon, Tom Hooper DOP: Colin Larsen Loc Mngr: Mandie Messenger, Ian Sparke Prod Des: Ian Sparke Continuity: Karen Mansfield Casting: Terese Redlin Hair/Makeup: Jac Carlton, Karen Kelly, Sharon Robbins Format: HD red X 2 Music: Werhner Pramschufer Filming loc: Queensland and NSW Shoot from: 11th Oct 2010 Shoot to: 17th Dec 2010 Completion: Feb/March 2011 Cast: Tony Bonner, Clare Van der Boom, Jak Wyld, John Reynolds, Glenn Ellis, Ozzie Devrish, Matthew McDowell, Chloe Guymer, Vincent Gorce, Santa Strohfeldt, Dennis Kreusler, Dan Balcaban, Selina Kadell, Hayley Jones, Alex Becconsall, Cpt. Dale Dye, Jacob Kyriakidis Description: A Story of humanity, courage, hope, love and mateship, The 34th Battalion is a tribute to all the ordinary lives interrupted by an extraordinary & horrific war. Contact: screenquest@gmail.com
The Circus
Dir: Emma Freeman Exec Prod: Leah Churchill-Brown Prod: Leanne Tonkes Writer: Emily Ballou Description: The Circus is a haunting story of a family’s struggle to triumph over adversity and rediscover the magic, hope and love that has escaped them. To the father and two children of his grieving family, the circus seems a world of magic and escape, but to a beautiful woman who has spent her entire life travelling in a dusty caravan, a family seems a world of stability and love. Set against the contrasting worlds of the harsh Australian outback and the fantasy magic of the circus, this powerful and unexpected love story will change both circus and family forever.
The Dreaming
Prod co Odin’s Eye, Tokyopop Dir Kate Woods Prod Stu Levy, Michael Favelle Writer Shayne Armstrong, Shane Krause – based on the manga graphic novel series by Queenie Chan Shoot: Early 2011 Fin Screen NSW, private equity, pre-sales Description: When teenage students begin disappearing at an all-girls boarding school in the Australian wilderness, twin students Jeanie and Amber set out to unravel a 100-year-old mystery. A stereoscopic 3D production.
No.3
Pro Co: Hibiscus Films Writer/Dir: Sarah Watt Prod: Bridget Ikin
Description: ‘No. 3’ is a portrait of three generations of women in their evolving roles as daughters, mothers and grandmothers, set over various time periods from the 1970s to the present day.
The Rats of Tobruk
Dir: Phillip Noyce Exec Prod: Jonathan Shteinman Prod: Peter Clifton Writer: Michael Thomas Description: The true 1941 story of the Rats of Tobruk during an eight-month siege when an Australian force took on and deferred the might of Rommel’s Afrika Corps told through Australian General Mushead. Contact js@bluewaterpictures.com.au
The Right Hand
Pro Co: Southern Light Films Writer/Dir: Julius Avery Prod: Timothy White
Description: A young man is sent to prison where he becomes the apprentice to public enemy number one.
The Sapphires
Prod Co Goalpoast Pictures Dir Wayne Blair Writer Tony Briggs, Keith Thompson Prod Rosemary Blight, Kylie Du Fresne Casting www.sapphiresopencall.com Shoot Early 2011 Description Based on a remarkable true story, The Sapphires is a triumphant celebration of youthful emotion, family and music. In the chaos of 1968, the four members of The Sapphires – branded as Australia’s answer to The Supremes – are plucked from the obscurity of a remote Aboriginal mission and, grasping the chance of a lifetime, dropped into the jungles of Vietnam to entertain the troops.
Skin Deep
Prod: Don Linke Writers: James Melchior, Susan Yardley Description: Nicola, desperate to be loved for who she is, suddenly finds herself engaged to two men called Felix, which makes falling in love with Patrick more confusing.
Surrender
Dir: Bruce Hunt Prod: Drew Thompson, Antonia Barnard Writer: Michael Bond Description: Mulyan, NSW 1959. Anwell, a naive loner, meets Finnigan, the wild boy from the woods. The 12-year-olds form a unique friendship and make a pact, sealed in blood – Anwell will only do good, Finnigan promises to act out his bad. Finnigan’s actions take the pact far beyond Anwell’s intentions, soon the angel-child is dragged into a succession of acts of arson he has no control over. His only way out – beat his adversary at his own game. The conflict between the boys leads to a terrifying and violent conclusion.
Valve
Pro Co: Porchlight Films Prod: Vincent Sheehan Exec Prod: Tim White Writer: Liz Doran Dir: Andrew Lancaster Description: A young man discovers he has an exceptional gift – the ability to hear infrasonic sound – and must risk everything when he accidentally hears something he shouldn’t and uncovers a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.
The White Mouse
Writer/Dir: Bruce Beresford Exec Prod: Richard Stewart Prod: Peter Glover, Sue Milliken Description: After living and working in Paris in the 1930s, Nancy Wake married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by World War II and her work with an escape-route network for Allied soldiers. Eventually Nancy had to escape from France herself to avoid capture by the Gestapo.
Features in Pre-Production
A Few Best Men
Prod: Laurence Malkin, Share Stallings, Gary Hamilton, Todd Fellman Dir : Stephan Elliott Exec prod: Dean Craig, Mark Lindsay, John Kesselman Sales agent: Arclight Films Prod loc: Queensland Shoot from: August 2010 Description: A young groom and his three best men travel to the Australian outback for a destination wedding that is as funny as it is disastrous.
Beijing Walkabout
Prod co MMP Group Australia Dir Jonathan Rankin Prod/Writer Russell Buchanan Exec prod Jonathan Rankin, Russell Buchanan Cast Russell Buchanan, Ju Long, Tom Zhang, Ken Roberts Stunts Ju Long, Russell Buchanan, Ken Roberts Filming locations Sydney/Bowral, NSW; Gold Coast, QLD; Beijing, China Shoot 01/09/2010-29/10/2010 Completion 25/01/2011 Gauge HD Post-production Thai Star Media Description An Australian cowboy/farmer goes to Beijing to collect an inheritance from an old Chinese man’s estate who’s life he saved some years earlier. At the reading of the “Will” he finds a quest is set before him to help a poor farming village before he receives the money. An action/adventure/kung fu film.
Fury Road
Prod co: Kennedy Miller Mitchell Dir: George Miller Description: The fourth film in the Mad Max franchise, after pervious instalments Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. George Miller will again be at the helm. Contact: rust.bucket.production@gmail.com
Iron Sky
Prod co New Holland Pictures Energia Productions, Blind Spot Pictures, 27 Films Dir Timo Vuorensola Prod Cathy Overett, Mark Overett, Tero Kaukomaa, Oliven Damian Writer Johanna Sinisalo VFX Samuli Torssonen DOP Mika Orasmaa Budget 6.5m euros Cast Julia Dietze, Gotz Otto, Tilo Pruckner, Udo Kier Description A science fiction comedy; towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity. From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base was to build a powerful invasion fleet and return to take over the Earth once the time was right. Now it’s 2018, the Nazi invasion is on its way and the world is goose-stepping towards its doom.
Lore
Pro Co: Porchlight Films Dir: Cate Shortland Prod: Liz Watts, Karsten Stöter, Benny Drechsel, Paul Welsh, Gabriele Kranzelbinder Writers: Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee Sales: Memento Films International Distribution: Transmission Description: In spring 1945, the German army collapses. As the Allied forces sweep across the Motherland, five children embark on a journey, which will challenge every notion we have of family, love and friendship.
Say Nothing
Pro Co: Aquarius Films in association with Blue Tongue Films Dir: Kieran Darcy-Smith Prod: Angie Fielder Writers: Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price Distribution: Hopscotch (Aus), LevelK (Denmark) Description: Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy’s mysterious disappearance. When Alice’s sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?
Snowtown
Prod Co: Warp Films Prod Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw Dir: Justin Kurzel Writer: Shaun Grant. Post-production: Digital Pictures Sales & Distribution: Madman (Aus), Protagonist (ROW) Shoot From: 01/08/2010 Description: A feature film about the Snowtown murders in South Australia. When 15-year-old Jamie Vlassakis meets a man who pledges to protect him, a friendship begins. As the relationship grows so do Jamie’s suspicions, until he finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father figure, John Bunting, Australia’s most notorious serial killer.
Features in Production
Bait
Prod off: Queensland Prod co: Arclight Films, Story Bridge Films, Pictures in Paradise Dir/writer: Russell Mulcahy Budget: $30m Funding: Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, Singapore Media Development Authority 3D: Widescreen Media Post-production: Blackmagic Design Shoot From: July 5 2010 Description: This shark thriller is set in a sleepy coastal town where a freak tsunami floods and traps shoppers in a supermarket with an armed maniac and a pack of hungry tiger sharks that have been washed into the building.
The Cup
Prod Co Silver Lion films, Myriad Pictures Dir Simon Wincer Prod Simon Wincer, Jan Bladier, David Lee Writer Eric O’Keefe, Simon Wincer Exec prod Lance Hool, Kirk D’Amico, Greg Sitch, Joel Pearlman, Peter de Rauch, James M. Vernon Prod des Liz Thomas DOP David Burr Costume des Julie Middleton Horse trainer Evanne Chesson Gauge Sony S35, GoPro sports cameras Post-production Horizon Films, Soundfirm Budget $15m Fin Screen Australia, Film victoria, Village Roadshow, Ingenious, private investors Cast Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Curry, Daniel MacPherson, Bobby Fox, Tom Burlinson, Bill Hunter, Shaun MIcallef, Jodi Gordon, Alice Parkinson, Colleen Hewett, Andrew Curry, Lewis Fitzgerald, Rodger Corser Description At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, Damien teams with Irish trainer Dermot Weld, and triumphs at the 2002 Melbourne Cup in one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history.
The Eye of the Storm
Prod Off: Melbourne Prod: Antony Waddington, Gregory Read and Fred Schepisi Exec Prod: Jonathan Shteinman, Edward Simpson, Bob Marcs and James Vernon. Co-Prod: Sally Ayre-Smith Dir: Fred Schepisi Writer: Judy Morris, based on the novel by Patrick White Shoot from April 19 Locations: Melbourne, Sydney, far north Queensland Distribution: Transmission Films Fin: Film Victoria, Media Funds Management, private investment Sales: The Little Film Company Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Charlotte Rampling, Alexandra Schepisi, Robyn Nevin, Colin Friels, John Gaden, and Helen Morse. Description: The story is set in Sydney’s Centennial Park, where two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed.
Half Empty / Half Full
Prod Off Queensland Prod co Lemon Twist Productions/Pforma Holdings Dir Daniel Wieland Prod Daniel Atherton, Walter Lago Writer Daniel Atherton DOP Jeremy Dore Costume des Rebecca Olive Cast Daniel Atherton, Maria Mejia, Walter Lago, James Mallon, Alex Forero, Christian Pardo De Figuero, Sylvia Flores Filming location Brisbane, QLD Shoot July 2010-September 2010 Gauge HD Description A bored Australian guy meets an exotic international student newly arrived in Australia. They find that while they are from different backgrounds, with different upbringings, they bond over their similar ideas and opinions on the world. Through their differences they find what they are both missing in their own lives Contact lemontwistproductions@gmail.com
The Hurtin’ Kind
Dir Frank Howson Shoot July 2010 Shooting locations Melbourne, Victoria; Los Angeles, USA; Albania Cast Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, Al Rama Description A gangster film loosely based on Melbourne’s seedy underworld. Mark ‘Chopper’ Red will play himself as a man who is called on to bash and shoot people. Rama’s character will be sent to LA to collect a debt that many before him have failed to get.
Little Johnny
Pro Co: Instinct Entertainment in association with Studio Moshi Dir: Ralph Moser, Dean Murphy Exec Prod: Scott Andrews Prod: Dean Murphy, Shana Levine, David Redman Writers: Dean Murphy, Ralph Moser, Stewart Faichney Animation Prod: Andrew Davis Animation Dir: JC Reyes Shoot from: 04/04/2010-24/12/2010 Fin: The Little Johnny Trading Company, Film Victoria Sales: Instinct Eden Rock International Distribution: Instinct Distribution Cast: Genevieve Morris, Stewart Faichney, Hamish Hughes, Bev Killick, Abbe Holmes, Peter Kent, Matt King, Brett Rutledge, Anthony Hammer, Eloise Grace, Eliza Szonert, Deborah Tabone, M.K., and Kevin “Bloody” Wilson as Uncle Kevin Description: Little Johnny jokes are famous the world over. They have been shared by generations but the source of these jokes has, until now, been a mystery. This animated mockumentary discovers that Little Johnny was indeed a real person, a feisty redhead boy, and we meet him and his simple yet hilariously dysfunctional family and friends and discover where these jokes originated from.
Happy Feet 2
Prod co: Kennedy Miller Mitchell Dir/prod: George Miller Prod: Doug Mitchell Description: A follow-up to the singing penguins smash directed by George Miller.
Killer Elite, The
Prod Co: Ambience Entertainment Dir: Gary McKendry Cast: Jason Statham Financing: Shoot From: April 2010 Prod off: Melbourne and regional Victoria Post-Production/VFX: Digital Pictures and Iloura Description: The Killer Elite follows the activities of two secret organisations: The Clinic, consisting of three contract killers, and The Feather Men, an underground group of vigilante killers who protect former and present members of the Special Air Service (SAS) and their families. It is based on the book The Feather Men, by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Six Lovers
Prod Off: Melbourne Prod Co: Intermedia Arts Prod: Joel Mielle Writer: Laurent Boulanger Format: 90 min Cast: Cameron Daddo, Peter Kalos, Maria Fernandez, Constance Washington, Adam Turnbull, Audrey Lamont, Alex Kadamani, Colin Masters Description: Nathan loves Lucia, who is having an affair with Lorenzo, who is seeing Tom, who has a relationship with Walter, who’s separated from Marilyn, who wants to save her relationship. Hearts will break. One will die. It’s all on tape. Are you willing to share your innermost secrets? Contact: joel@intermediaarts.com.au, (03) 5975 8881, http://sixloversmovie.blogspot.com, facebook.com/SixLovers
Triple Happiness
Dir/Writer Aaron Wilson Prod Katrina Fleming DOP Stefan Duscio Consultant prod Margot McDonald Co-prod Mabelyn Ow (Singapore), Tom Booth Editor Cindy Clarkson Casting dir Jane Norris, Mullinars Prod des Tim Burgin Sound Des: Andrew Neil & Soundfirm Composer Rob MacKenzie VFX Supervisor/ post pathway manager Marcus Herrick Gaffer David Parkinson, Bert Tan (Singapore) Singaporean production support Chuan Pictures, Royston Tan Post-production Infinite Frameworks (Singapore), Deluxe Melbourne Publicists Limelight PR Gauge Red One Format 100 minutes Shoot: December 2009-early 2011 Filming locations Cobram, Victoria; Tocumwal, NSW; Singapore Fin Private Description The story of Jim, an Australian man who is sent to Singapore during World War II and, upon his return to Australia, is unable to continue his life from where he left it. The film explores the resonating effects of Jim’s experience on his family across three generations, set against the backdrop of cultural divisions and unifications in 1942, 1970 and 2010.
Trouble Down Under
Pro Co: Fastlane Entertainment, Madcow Pictures Dir: Steve Trenbirth Prod: Tony Findlay, Steve Trenbirth Exec Prod: Frank Miniaci, Tony Findlay Line Prod: Karen Emery Asst. Dir: Mark Sontag Writer: Tony Finday, Howard Jackson Editor: Scott Henry Prod Mngr: Gary Page Prod Des: Rod Wong
Shoot from: August 2010 Shoot to: October 2012 Completion: Oct 2012 Format: 1:85 Gauge: CGI HD Digital, output to 35mm film Cast: Rove McManus, Cameron Daddo, Andrew Daddo, Ernie Dingo, Tony Bonner Description: Peace reigns in the Australian Outback until a lost mob of African meerkats causes tension with the local red and gray Kangaroo mob families. Their accidental arrival triggers chaos when a white wallaby rogue named Al Bino, returning from exile overseas, creates further confusion seeking revenge. Trouble, with a capital T, runs amuck as word spreads.
The Tunnel
Pro Co: Distracted Media Dir: Carlo Ledesma Prod: Enzo Tedeschi, Julian Harvey Cast: Bel Delia, Andy Rodoreda Description: Follows a news film crews’ journey into Sydney’s underground hunting for a story, until the story starts hunting them. The film will be distributed through controversial internet piracy networks in a bid to reach out to the increasingly dominant online audience.
Features in Post-Production
Big Mamma’s Boy
Pro Co: Valarc Films Dir/Script Ed: Franco di Chiera Prod: Matteo Bruno Writer/Prod: Frank Lotito Assoc. Pro: Joe Accurso Asst. Dir: Jason Faulkner DOP: Judd Overton Editor: Beckett Broda Prod Mngr: Maggie Miles Costume Des: Gale Pether Casting: Maura Fay Hair/Makeup: Liddy Reynolds Format: 35 mm Gauge: F35 HD Post: Digital Pictures Sound post: Music and Effects Filming loc: Melbourne Cast: Holly Valance, Frank Lotito, Carmelina Di Guglielmo, Sachin Joab, George Kapiniaris, Maria Venuti, Jim Russell, Pia Miller, Costas Kilias, Steve Mouzakis, Cassandra Magrath, Nick Farnell, Natalie Gauci, Kristie Jandric, Simon Palomares, Joe Avati, Vince D’Amico Description: A comedy about life, love and lasagna. Contact details: Matteo Bruno mb@valarcfilms.com
Burning Man
Prod co Meercat/Archer Street Dir/Writer Jonathan Teplitzky Prod Andy Paterson Exec prod Daria Jovicic, Cedric Jeanson and Sam Tromans Filming locations Sydney Fin Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Standard Chartered Bank Sales Filmbox Dist Transmission Films Cast Matthew Goode, Bojana Novakovic, Rachel Griffiths, Essie Davis, Kerry Fox, Kate Beahan and Gia Carides Description Tom is an English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach. He’s a man behaving badly, surrounded by women trying in their own ways to help him put his life back together.
The Place Between
Prod co Scarlett Pictures Dir/writer Beck Cole Prod Kath Shelper DOP Warwick Thornton Prod mng Fiona Pakes Prod des Sam Wilde Costume des Heather Wallace Hair/Make-up Carol Cameron Editor Rolan Gallois Shooting locations Port Adelaide, South Australia Shoot 24/05/2010-02/07/2010 Cast Shai Pittman Description The Place Between is driven by three generations of Aboriginal women – 28-year old Karen Burden, her mother Lois and her daughter Rosie. When Karen is released from prison, through a series of chance encounters the women learn that freedom is hard to find when the hearts are still broken. Contact (08) 8447 8966
Red Dog
Prod off: Pilbara, WA Prod co: Woss Group Films Prod: Nelson Woss, Julie Ryan Dir: Kriv Stenders Fin: Screen Australia, ScreenWest, Rio Tinto, Woodside, WesTrac Budget: $8.5m Format: 90 mins Shoot From: May Shoot To: June Description: Based on the true story of a nomadic red kelpie dog that won the hearts of hundreds of isolated West Australian outback residents and brought the local community together.
Toomelah
Pro Co: Bunya Productions Writer/Dir: Ivan Sen Prod: David Jowsey Completion: Oct 2010 Distribution: Bunya Productions, Visit Films Description: Toomelah is a feature film about a boy called Kiren, who wants to be a gangster and his daily life growing up in a remote Aboriginal community – a provocative and yet comic story that transports audiences inside the community, creating an authentic world and way of life that is Toomelah Contact: david.jowsey@bigpond.com
Thirst
Pro Co: Imagine Films Writer/Dir: Robert Carter Prod: Mark George, Megan George, Robert Carter DOP: Nicola Daley Cast: Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Tom Green, Myles Pollard, Victoria Haralabidou Description: Four very different people, trapped together in the desert, come to find that sometimes we can be heroes just for one day.
X
Prod Co: Circe Films, Rough Beast Exec Prod: Peter Castaldi Prod: Lizzette Atkins Prod/Dir/Writer: Jon Hewitt Writer: Belinda McClory, John Hewitt Gauge: Red One HD Fin: private investment, Screen Australia, Film Victoria Distributor: The Pack Cast: Viva Bianca, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence Description: A jaded callgirl and a fledgling streetwalker are thrown together on the night from hell.
Telemovies in Pre-Production
The Man Who Got Away
Network: Nine Pro Co: Screentime Dir: Cherie Nowlan Exec Prod: Des Monaghan, Jo Horsburgh, Greg Haddrick Prod: Peter Gawler, Elisa Argenzio Writer: Kris Mrksa Description: The third film in the Underbelly Files recounts the incredible tale of British-Australian drug smuggler David McMillan, the only man ever to escape from Bangkok’s Klong Prem prison.
Panic At Rock Island
Network: Nine Pro Co: Goalpost Pictures Dir: Tony Tilse Prod: Rosemary Blight, Dave Gibson Writer: Matt Ford Description: An action-paced disaster thriller set on Sydney Harbour during a three day rock music festival. Great music, DJ’s, sunshine and gorgeous young people from all over the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Sisters of War
Pro Co: Pericles Films Dir: Brendan Maher Prod: Andrew Wiseman Line Prod: Yvonne Collins Writer: John Misto Asst. Dir: Peter McLennan DOP: Ben Nott Cast: Claire van der Boom, Sarah Snook, Gerald Lepowski, Susie Porter Description: A 90-minute history drama is inspired by the true story of a small group of Australian nurses and nuns who found themselves in the eye of the storm when the Japanese military made them prisoners of war on the remote island of New Britain in 1942. Contact julian@periclesfilms.com
Telemovies in Production
Infiltration
Network: Nine Pro Co: Screentime Dir: Grant Brown Exec Prod: Des Monaghan, Jo Horsburgh, Greg Haddrick Prod: Peter Gawler, Elisa Argenzio Writer: Graeme Koetsveld Filming loc: Melbourne Cast: Sullivan Stapleton, Jessica Napier, Valentino del Toro, Buddy Dannoun, Henry Nixon, Totti Goldsmith Description: Infiltration is the second telemovie in the new Underbelly Files. Based on the best-selling book of the same name by former Victoria Police detective Colin McLaren, Infiltration recounts McLaren’s time as an undercover operative who, together with a female colleague, infiltrated the N’Drangheta – the Calabrian mafia – based in Griffith in NSW. Posing as a dodgy art dealer, McLaren and his partner risked their lives daily as they ingratiated themselves with their targets, becoming trusted friends and business acquaintances.
Telemovies in Post-Production
Tell them Lucifer Was Here
Network: Nine Dir: Shawn Seet Exec Prod: Des Monaghan, Jo Horsburgh, Greg Haddrick Prod: Peter Gawler, Elisa Argenzio Writer: Peter Gawler Cast: Brett Climo, Greg Stone, Paul O’Brien, Todd Lasance, Jane Allsop and Annie Jones Description: The two-hour telemovie tells the tragic story of the 1998 murders of Victoria Police officers Rod Miller and Gary Silk. It centres on the enormous efforts of the Lorimer Task Force in tracking down the killers. The two policemen were brutally gunned down in the course of duty by petty criminals Bandali Debs and his young accomplice, Jason Roberts.
Children’s/Youth in Pre-Production
Dance Academy-Series 2
Network: ABC Pro Co: Werner Film Productions Exec Prod: Bernadette O’Mahony, Joanna Werner Prod: Joanna Werner Writers: Samantha Strauss, Liz Doran, Greg Waters Sales: ZDFE, ZDF, ACTF Description: Tara returns to the National Academy of Dance with the goal of representing Australia in the world’s most prestigious ballet competition. But perhaps she should be more focused on just surviving Second Year, where having climbed to the top in her first year at the Academy – in dance, in life, in love – she now has a very long way to fall. Contact info@wernerfilmproductions.com.au
Lightning Point
Network: Ten, Nickelodeon Australia Pro Co: Jonathan M Shiff Productions Pty Ltd Dir: Colin Budds Exec Prod: Jonathan M Shiff, Julia Adams Prod: Jonathan M Shiff Co-prod: Stuart Wood Story Prod/Script Editor: Chris Roache Assoc. Story Prod: David Hannam Writers: Simon Butters, Sam Carroll, Carine Chai, Max Dann, David Hannam, Anthony Morris, Chris Roache Sales: ZDF, ZDF Enterprises Description: Zoey and Kiki are two irrepressible girls from another galaxy who become castaways in a small Australian surf town. But even with the help of local girl Amber, how long can these alien surf girls keep their identity secret? Contact info@jmsp.com.au
My Place – Series 2
Prod Co: Matchbox Pictures Prod: Penny Chapman Co-Prod: Helen Panckhurst Writers: Alice Addison, Blake Ayshford, Leah Purcell, John Alsop, Wayne Blair, Nicholas Parsons, Gina Roncoli, Greg Waters, Dallas Winmar Dir: Jessica Hobbs, Catriona McKenzie, Sam Lang, Michael James Rowland, Shawn Seet Sales & Distribution: ABC, ABC Commercial & ACTF Description: Continues the story of 26 children who live in the one spot in Australia over 260 years. Part 2 tells their tales from 1878 to Beforetime (before white settlement). Based on the award-winning book for children by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins.
Children’s/Youth in Production
Me and My Monsters
Network: Ten, Nickelodeon, BBC, ZDF Germany Prod Co: Sticky Pictures M&MM Pty Ltd and Tiger Aspect Productions Dir: Martin Dennis, Lynn Hegarty Prod: Justine Flynn, Pete Coogan, Martin Baker Exec Prod: Donna Andrews, Greg Brenman Prod Des: Roger Ford Assist Dir Jeremy Grogan Writer Mark Grant Script editor Stu Connolly Editor Que Minh Luu, Prod mgr Sam Thompson Cost des Gypsy Taylor Hair/make-up Catherine Brown Casting Maura Fay Casting, Marianne Jade, Sound post Labsonics, Post-production The Editors – David Jaegar Format: 26×25min Gauge: HD Cam Filming Locations: Fox Studios Australia Shoot from: 21/05/2010-08/10/2010 Description: The story of the Carlson family who have recently relocated from Australia to a smart townhouse in the UK. They picked their new home up for a knock down price, because, as it turns out, there are monsters in the basement. The youngest Carlson, Eddie, is the happiest boy in the world because of his naughty new friends who don’t think or behave like human beings. Contact: (02) 8353 3633.
Mini-Series in Pre-Production
The Slap
Network: ABC Prod co: Matchbox Pictures Exec prod: Penny Chapman Story prod: Tony Ayres Assoc prod: Christos Tsiolkas Prod: Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon Script: Emily Ballou, Alice Bell, Michael Miller, Kris Mrksa, Cate Shortland Story cons: Christos Tsiolkas Format: 8×1 hour Description: At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event and what follows, ricochets through a tight-knit group of family and friends to shocking effect.
Mini-Series in Production
Killing Time
Pay Channel: TV1 Prod off: Melbourne Prod co: FremantleMedia Australia Exec prod: Jason Stephens Prod: John Wild Format: 10×60mins Fin: TV1, Film Victoria Sales: FremantleMedia Enterprises Shoot From: 06/04/2010 Shoot To: 15/07/2010 Writer: Ian David, Mac Gudgeon, Katherine Thompson Cast: David Wenham Description: Follows the story of Andrew Fraser’s rise from small time lawyer to successfully defending the most infamous criminals this country has ever seen, and then his ultimate downfall and imprisonment for five years in maximum security. His clients included Dennis Allen, Jimmy Krakouer, Alan Bond and those accused of the Walsh Street murders.
Series in Pre-Production
Blood Brother
Network: Nine Pro Co: Playmaker Media Pty Ltd Prod: David Taylor, David Maher Writer: John Misto Sales: ITV Studios Global Entertainment Description: A dramatic account of the Gilham family murders which occurred in Sydney in 1993.
Cleo
Network: ABC Pro Co: Southern Star Entertainment Pty Ltd Dir: Emma Freeman: Prod: John Edwards, Imogen Banks Writer Christopher Lee Sales: Endemol Worldwide Distribution Description: The Whitlam era as seen through the eyes of Cleo magazine and its young editor, Ita Buttrose.
Offspring
Network Ten Prod Co Southern Star Entertianment Prod John Edwards, Imogen Banks Writers Debra Oswald, Jonathan Gavin, Chris Hawkson, Kylie Needham, Michael Lucas, Margaret Wilson Directors Kate Dennis, Darren Ashton, Sian Davies, Glendyn Ivin Cast Asher Keddie, Don Hany, Kat Stewart, Eddie Perfect, Richard Davis, John Waters Description This 13-part fiction series from the team behind Tangle and Dangerous follows the life of obstetrician Nina Proudman, her boisterous family and her chaotic romances.
Outland
Network ABC1 Prod Co Princess Pictures Prod Laura Waters, Andrea Denholm Co-prod Dan Cadone Writers John Richards, Adam Richard Dir Kevin Carlin Description From the award-winning team behind Summer Heights High, this series explores the idea of belonging, and how to find a place in the world if you grew up pimply, unpopular, geeky and gay.
Spirited-Series 2
Network: Foxtel Pro Co: Southern Star Entertainment Pty Ltd Dir: Jessica Hobbs Prod: John Edwards, Jacquelin Perske, Claudia Karvan Writer: Jacquelin Perske Sales: Endemol Worldwide Distribution Description: Spirited 2 is the second series about a fantastical, eternal love story between a rock star ghost and a dentist who will fight the living, the dead and anything in between to stay together.
Series in Production
Bed of Roses – Series 3
Network: ABC Prod co: ABC TV, Hugh Marks and Ruby Entertainment Prod: Mark Ruse, Stephen Luby Dir: Ted Emery, David Cameron, Daina Reid. Writers: Deborah Parsons, Max Dann, David Hannam, Ysabelle Dean, John Reeves, Josephine Dee Barrett and Ellie Beaumont Created by: Jutta Goetze and Elizabeth Coleman. Prod loc: regional Victoria, Melbourne, ABC studios at Ripponlea Fin: Film Victoria Shoot from: May 4 Shoot to: September 2010 Format: 12×50min Cast: Kerry Armstrong, Julia Blake, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence along with Jay Laga’aia, Caroline Gillmer, Kaarin Fairfax and Andrew S. Gilbert. Description: In series three, Louisa Atherton, (Kerry Armstrong) has finally found her place in the town of Rainbow’s End. Now 50something, Louisa’s life finally seems to be on track; she is head over heels in love; she is the proud new co-owner of the Echo newspaper; and is managing to negotiate her affectionate, if often exasperating family. It just could be a Bed of Roses… but then again it is Louisa Atherton we are talking about!
City Homicide
Network: Seven Prod off: Melbourne Prod co: Seven Productions Exec prod: John Holmes Prod: MaryAnne Carroll Assoc prod: Pennie Brown Dir: Pino Amenta, Nicholas Bufalo, David Cameron, Kevin Carlin, Richard Jasek, Jet Wilkinson, Kate Woods, Karl Zwicky DOP: Craig Barden Script exec: Bevan Lee Cont: Paul Harding, Carmel Torcasio Creator: John Hugginson Script ed: Alix Beane, Mia Tolhurst Script: John Banas, Alix Beane, John Hugginson, Kelly Lefever, Michaeley O’Brien, Mia Tolhurst, Jeff Truman Cam op: Peter Stott Art dir: Colin Robertson, Kate Saunders Cost des: Katrina Pickering Prod mgr: Anna Molyneaux Post prod spv: Sue Washington Editor: Philip Watts, Nathan Wild Prod des: Peta Lawson Unit mgr: Toby Granger Casting dir: Lou Mitchell, Andrew Thompson Cast: John Adam, Shane Bourne, David Field, Nadine Garner, Noni Hazlehurst, Aaron Pedersen, Damien Richardson, Nadia Townsend Casting cons: Ann Fay, Maura Fay Casting Creator: John Banas Music spv: Tom Andrews, Mana Music Dist: Seven Network Int Sales: Southern Star International Format: 1 hour Gauge: DVC Pro 50 Shoot From: 15/02/2010 Shoot To: 12/11/2010 Description: Against a city backdrop, the Homicide squad continue to relentlessly follow every lead, chase down every witness and interview every suspect until the case is solved. This is City Homicide, where every victim counts and every survivor matters. No greater commitment. No greater duty. No greater honour.
Cops L.A.C.
Network: Nine Shoot from: May 2010 Format: 13×52min Cast: Kate Ritchie, Martin Dingle Wall, Gary Sweet, Denise Roberts, Tom O’Sullivan, Ria Vandervis, Kelly Paterniti, Graeme Squires, Roy Billing, Damian de Montemas.Description: The fast-paced working life and complicated relationships of a diverse range of uniformed cops and plainclothes detectives. These police officers working in a busy Local Area Command are the new frontline of law and order. Their brief is to fight and control crime on their turf; from shoplifting to murder, small-time drug deals to major organised crime, these cops see it all every day.
Laid
Network: ABC Pro Co: Porchlight Films Dir: Trent O’Donnell Exec Prod: Debbie Lee Prod: Liz Watts Writers/Co-Prod: Marieke Hardy, Kirsty Fisher Assoc. Prod: Linda Micsko Line Prod: Ally Henville 1st AD: Dimitri Ellerington DOP: Justin Bricke Editor: Julie-Anne De Ruvo Loc Mngr: Peter Hicks Prod Des: Pete Baxter Costume Des: Ingrid Weir Casting: Anousha Zarkesh Hair/Makeup: Jen Lamphee Format: 6 X 30 min Gauge: Panasonic P2 Post: Spectrum, E Film Sound Post: Huzzah Sound Music: Dan Luscombe Filming loc: Sydney Shoot from: 5th July 2010 Shoot to: 6th August 2010 Completion: Oct 2010 Cast: Alison Bell, Celia Pacquoala, Toby Truslove, Abe Forsythe Description: Laid is a black comedy about a woman who faces an unenviable situation when men she has had sexual relationships with mysteriously begin dying off, one by one. It’s about sex, death and valour. And the moment when a woman is dragged back to her chequered bedroom past to preserve her chances of true love.
Packed to the Rafters-Series 3
Prod Off: Sydney Network: Seven Prod: Seven Prod: Jo Porter Format: 22×60 min Description: Would-be empty-nesters Dave and Julie Rafter find their home once more packed to the rafters, as their extended family return home and they must all learn to live together again.
Rescue Special Ops-Series 2
Network: Nine Network Prod off: Sydney Prod co: Southern Star Entertainment Exec prod: Jo Horsburgh, Hugh Marks Dir: Peter Andrikidis, Ian Barry, Geoff Bennett, Garth Maxwell Prod: Julie McGauran, Sarah Smith DOP: Russell Bacon Script ed: David Ogilvy Script: Liz Doran, Chris Hawkshaw, Michaeley O’Brien, John Ridley, Sarah Smith, Dave Warner Line prod: Kerrie Mainwaring Sound rec: Grant Shepherd Art dir: Scott Bird Cost des: Jan Hurley Post prod spv: Peter Powell Editing: Nicole La Macchia Editor: Tony Mestres Prod des: Tim Ferrier Unit mgr: Djuro Bandur Casting dir: Tim Littleton Cast: Daniel Amalm, Gigi Edgley, Katherine Hicks, Les Hill, Andrew Lees, Peter Phelps, Libby Tanner 1st AD: Scott Hartley, Russell Whiteoak Composer: Nerida Tyson-Chew Gaffer: Martin Perrott Key grip: Simon Duggan Stunt co-ord: Tony Lynch Fin: Screen Australia Dist: Southern Star International Format: 13×1hr Shoot From: 15/02/2010 Shoot To: 19/8/2009 Description: Brothers Chase and Dean Gallagher are living together, Lara is married to Hamish and boss Michelle juggles motherhood, her relationship with Detective Ian Johnson and her job as Rescue unit manager. On the job, the Rescue team will respond to a mine collapse, a child abduction, a marina fire, a train wreck, a light plane crash and much more.
Series in Post-Production
Rake
Network: ABC Prod co: Essential Media and Entertainment Prod: Ian Collie, Peter Duncan, Richard Roxburgh Dir: Peter Duncan (Episodes 1 & 2), Rachel Ward (Episodes 3 & 4), Jeffrey Walker (Episodes 5 & 6), Jessica Hobbs (Episodes 7 & 8 ) Assist dir: Matt Enfield, John Martin Filming locations: Sydney Shoot from: April 27 Shoot to: July 20 Format: 8 x 1 hr Gauge: HDCAM-SR Writer Andrew Knight & Peter Duncan DOP: Robert Humphreys, Anna Howard Editor: Suresh Ayyar & Henry Dangar Music: Antony Partos Prod man: Kerrie Mainwaring Loc man: Gabrielle Sinclair Prod des: Laurie Faen Cost des: Nina Edwards Hair/Make up: Wizzy Molineaux Cast dir: Anousha Zarkesh Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day, Adrienne Pickering, Russell Dykstra, Danielle Cormack, Caroline Brazier Description: A comedy drama series chronicling the trials and tribulations of criminal barrister, Cleaver Greene – defender of the indefensible and champion of the lost cause … both in the court room and the bedroom.
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Lifestyle/Reality In Production
The Circle
Network/Distributor: Ten Exec Prod: Pam Barnes Supervising & Line Prod: Mark Gibson Stby Line Prod: Will Roncon Supervising Prod: Lucy Roach Segment Prod: Cesira Colleluori, Brooke Campbell, Timothy Powell, Simon Chapman, Tom Fahey, Kate Uebergang , Karla Burt, Jen Lenne, Becky Zack Advertorial & Promo Prod: Kate Waterson Advertorial Prod (Syd): Rebecca Marsh Dir: Mark Hopinitch Dir Assistant: Vassy Kirtharelis Designer/Art: Angel Christa & Troy Raabe Video Prod: Nick Orchard Graphics: Tom Walter Audio: Matt Eldridge Prod Man: Jo Casanelia Cast: Denise Drysdale, Chrissie Swan, Yumi Stynes and Gorgi Coghlan Description: Take four talented and diverse women – Denise Drysdale, Chrissie Swan, Yumi Stynes and Gorgi Coghlan – throw in a live studio audience, the news of the day and the very best of food, fashion and lifestyle going around and you have arrived – welcome to The Circle.
Lifestyle/Reality In Post-Production
Australia’s Next Top Model – Series 6
Network: FOX 8 Production co: Granada Series prod : Pete Tame Exec prod: Duane Hatherly and Josie Mason-Campbell Director: Various Prod manager: Rani Seckold Fin: Foxtel Filming locations: Various ,Australia and international Shoot from: May 1 Shoot to: July 14 Completion date September 2010 Format: 16:9 Gauge: Digital Betacam
Cast: Sara Murdoch, Charlotte Dawson and Alex Perry Description: A ten-part series. Hosted by Sarah Murdoch, Australia’s Next Top Model is a the hit reality series that follows a group of young women as they try to prove they have what it takes to make it in the high stakes world of modelling. Contact: Donna Foster , Josie Mason –Campbell
The Boss Is Coming To Dinner
Network Nine Prod co Shine Australia Description A classic nightmare scenario – inviting your boss to dinner. In the past, entertaining your superiors was always considered an essential part of business practice. Now it’s being used by enterprising companies to transform the interview process. In each episode three candidates seeking a new career opportunity host a dinner party for their potential employers in their own homes. After each dinner the boss will then invite two preferred candidates home for dinner and the final judgment.
Game Show In Production
Deal or No Deal
Network: Seven Prod off: Melbourne Prod co: Endemol Southern Star Exec prod: Deb Stewart Dir: Richard Franc Assoc prod: Elaine May, Beth Wallis Prod: Susannah Mott Cost des: Valerie Nelson Post prod spv: Editel Music: Endemol Host: Andrew O’Keefe Product mgr: Elspeth Iredale Dist: Southern Star International Format: 215×30 mins Shoot From: 1/11/2009 Shoot To: 1/11/2010
Game Show In Post-Production
Beat the Star
Network: Seven Dir Mark Adamson Series prod Rob Menzies Exec prod Stevie K Murray Producer Anna Scarff Assoc prod Kellie Kellie Williams, Kerrie Kerr, Alan Thorpe, Graham Watson Assist dir Debbie O’Hara Writer SallyHeron, David Lawrence Prod mng Di Nickel Prod des Peter Disney Costume des Valerie Nelson Hair/Make-up Marg Annessley, Tas Tsipouras Host Daniel MacPherson Filming locations: Melbourne Central City Studios Shoot 13/04-01/05, 2010 Post-production Editel Description Skill, athletic prowess, knowledge and the ability to embrace the inner dag are as critical as bravery and willpower in Beat the Star. Each episode sees the entire show based around one showbiz personality or high-profile sports person as they take on a viewer and their family vying for big $$. Contact Seven Network (03) 9697 7777
Comedy/Variety In Production
Gruen Transfer, The-Series 3
Network: ABC Prod off: Sydney Prod co: Zapruder’s Other Films Shoot From: 31/5/2010 Shoot To: 13/8/2010 Description: If advertising didn’t work, it wouldn’t be everywhere. The Gruen Transfer will once again revel in the brilliance and unlock the secrets of advertising. Hosted by Wil Anderson, TGT will ask a panel of ad geniuses to explain the thinking behind their work and share the tricks of the trade.
Yes We Canberra!
Network: ABC1 Exec Pro: Julian Morrow Description: The Chaser team will return to ABC TV with their satirical take on the 2010 federal election, with an all-new format which showcases them in their current occupation – as warm-up guys for the network’s current affairs flagship Lateline. The fictional setting of the Lateline warm-up is a departure from the Chaser’s previous election special, which was set in the national tallyroom.
Children’s/Youth in Production
Prank Patrol-Series 2
Pro Co: ActiveTV Series Dir: Peter Lawlor Prod: Kylie Washington Co-series prod: Shona Van Lieshout Description: Prank Patrol is back, riding the wave of success series 1 created when it became the most watched television show on ABC3. Host Scotty Tweedie, his sidekick Ninjas and guest experts, help Aussie Pranksters pull off big time pranks with all the action captured on hidden cameras.
Documentary in Planning
Arthouse
Pro Co: Mago Films Pty Ltd Dir: Britt Arthur Writer/Prod: Martin Bartsch Description: Arthouse looks at the changing face of architecture, innovation and design in Australia through the eyes of Melbourne-based husband and wife team, architect Robert McBride and interior designer Debbie Ryan. The documentary follows this stellar design team over eight months, while examining the intricacies of their working relationship, and the inspiration behind their iconic and at times controversial works.
Australia: The Land That Time Forgot
Pro Co: Essential Media Exec Prod: Chris Hilton Prod: Andrea Gorddard Dir: Richard Smith Description: Takes us from the birth of the Solar System to the modern world, an amalgam of natural history, science and adventure, revealing the diversity of the Australian continent, meeting not only the creatures in question, but also the people unravelling their secrets. Contact: info@essential-media.com
Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey
Pro Co: Bearded Lady Productions Dir: Janine Hosking Prod: Todd Abbott Writer: Judith Lucy Description: Judith Lucy is lost. So now, ready or not, she’s going on a journey to find herself. Over six episodes she’ll explore what’s on offer for the spiritually curious and relive the hilarious, bizarre and profound moments that have shaped her spiritual belief system.
Miss South Sudan Australia
Network: ABC Pro Co: Matchbox Pictures Writer/Dir: Shannon Owen Prod: Michael McMahon, Polly Staniford DOP: Jody Muston Editor: Mark Atkin Prod Mngr: Phillipa Kelly Description: Miss South Sudan Australia is a joyful and exuberant half-hour documentary following the journey to pull together the premiere event for Australia’s Sudanese community – the Miss South Sudan Australia beauty pageant – and the lives of the organisers and participants Contact: Jack Hayox – (03) 952 7222
Show Me The Magic
Prod Co: Virgo Productions & Freshwater Pictures Prod: Cathy Henkel and Trish Lake Dir: Cathy Henkel Description: Show me the Magic is the story of a young boy who grew up in a one-horse town in country NSW and ended up working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. At the age of 74, Don McAlpine is shooting his 50th film, Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Gavin Hood. Show me the Magic takes the audience up close and personal and behind the scenes with this master cinematographer as he creates magic for an epic blockbuster. The film charts Don’s inspirational life story through dramatic recreations and his own rich personal archive of unseen on-set footage. The audience joins Don and his wife Janette in Hollywood, where he will receive the 2009 American Society of Cinematographer’s International Achievement Award. The film reveals the life events, attributes and magic that led Don to achieve this seemingly impossible dream. Contact: Tara Wardrop – admin@virgoproductions.com.au
Trafficked – The Reckoning
Pro Co: Fair Trade Films Pty Ltd Writer/Dir/Prod: Luigi Acquisto Prod: Stella Zammataro Description: The inspiring, courageous story of a young woman’s quest to bring the man who enslaved her in a Sydney brothel to justice. Contact stella@abrafilms.com
Who’s Been Sleeping In My House
Network: ABC Pro Co: Joined Up Films Exec Prod: Dan Brown, Jacqueline Willinge and Anthony Willinge Series Prod: Andrew Saw DOP: Jim Frater Presenter: Adam Ford Format: 8×30 min Fin: ABC, Screenwest Shoot from: Oct 2010 Shoot to: Feb 2011 Completion: April 2011 Description: Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? is an eight-part series where each week we visit an Australian house and its owners in a quest to uncover the stories and history of their home. We follow Adam as he zigzags his way through archives, family albums, interviews, data bases, and home movies. Meeting social historians and relatives of past owners along the way, he pieces together a past that isn’t recorded in the history books.
Documentary In Production
Addiction
Network: ABC Prod off: Sydney Prod co: Beyond Productions Exec prod: David Alrich, Michael Gudinski, John Luscombe Format: 2×1hour Gauge: HDV Shoot From: 1/10/2009 Description: For everyday non-celebrities, substance addiction, detox, and rehab are taboo subjects, pushed to the background by a general social consensus that “they brought it on themselves”. Addiction is an observational documentary series focussing on the private battles of ordinary men and women in their battle to overcome their addictions.
Broken Roads
Prod co: Myrmidon Enterprises Dir: Jonathan Nolan Prod: Zac Ezzy, Jonathan Nolan, Zoe Scott Cast: Zac Ezzy, Kate O’Hagan, Dave Smith, Greg Smith Shoot Format: 89 mins Description: The documentary-story of four young Australians as they take a charity motorcycle journey from Sydney to Darwin. By nature all four riders are individuals; but their story, with its humour, loyalty and courage, shows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Four paths. Four riders. One journey. When you’re lost, all you can find is yourself.
Charles Bean’s Great War
Prod Co: 360 Degree Films Prod: John Moore Dir: Wain Fimeri Writer: Wain Fimeri Description: A dramatised documentary about Charles Bean, renowned writer and editor of the 12 volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, using dramatic recreation and archival images to allow Bean to tell the story of his remarkable life.
Chris Humfrey’s Wild Life
Prod: Regional Victoria Prod Co: December Films Prod: Tony Wright Dir: Max Walker Format 13×60 min Description: A series about 36-year-old zoologist and wildlife fanatic Chris Humfrey and the life he leads with his family, a team of young and passionate zookeepers and over 2,000 animals, in country Victoria.
Dr. Mary Goes Bush
Network: SBS, BBC Scotland. Prod Co: Artemis International Exec Prod: Brian Beaton, Celia Tait Prod Brian Beaton Dir Stuart Grieg Sales & Distribution SBS Content Sales Description Outspoken and zealous, Dr Mary Fortune leaves Scotland to take up the challenge of working in one of the most remote medical posts on the planet. With her fresh eyes we discover the realities of Australian health delivery in a new light.
Driving to D-Day
Network The History Channel Prod Co: Intomedia Pty Ltd Prod/Writer/Dir Stuart Scowcroft Sales & Distribution Intomedia Description: Across a continent to the invasion beaches of Normandy, 30 eccentric Australians drive through history in antique military vehicles to commemorate the landings that liberated Europe.
The Family
Network: SBS Prod co: Shine Australia Exec Prod: Mark Fennessy and Carl Fennessy Format: 8×30 mins Sales & Distribution: SBS Content Sales, Shine International Description: An observational series which documents the universal themes of family life and sees an Australian household open its doors to viewers, 24 hours a day for 12 weeks of on-camera surveillance. The casting of the series is expected to take several months and the producers will be looking for a multi-generational family, with kids and lots going on in their lives.
The First Interview
Network ABC1 Prod co Jungle Pictures Prod Fiona Cochrane Dir/writer Dennis Tupicoff Description Takes us back to Paris, 1886, to a conversation between great French scientist Michel-Eugene Chevreul and famous photographer Nadar – the first on camera interview in history.
Kangaroo Mob
Network: ABC, RTBF Belgium, YLE and SVT Prod Co: 360 Degree Films Prod/Writer: Sally Ingleton Dir: Simon Target Sales & Distribution: NGTI Description: A natural history programme that takes an intimate look at the kangaroos taking over the suburbs of Canberra and the team of ecologists who follow them.
The Last Waltz
Network ABC1 Prod Co Waterbyrd Filmz Prod Nickolas Bird Writer Dennis K Smith Dir Nickolas Bird, Eleanor Sharpe Description The owner of Melbourne’s only gay and lesbian ballroom dancing studio Anny Salerni unites her students in their passion for dance as they battle injury, personal drama and discrimination from the mainstream dancing community.
Life in Movement: Tanja Liedtke’s Story
Prod Co: Closer Productions Prod: Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason Dir Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde Description: At 29, Tanja Liedtke was appointed as the director of Sydney Dance Company; she never started the job. Her sudden death brings life into sharp focus.
Paul Cox
Broadcaster: ABC Prod Co: Rebel Films, Frontline Films Prod: Jeni McMahon, David Bradbury Dir: David Bradbury: Writer: David Bradbury Description: A portrait of one of Australia’s most important and prolific film directors, Paul Cox. After a life-saving liver transplant, Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life’s work.
Railroad Man
Network: ABC Prod Co: Closer Productions Funding: ABC TV, Adelaide Film Festival Fund, South Australian Film Corporation Prod: Sophie Hyde, Caroline Man Dir: Matt Bate Writer: Matt Bate Budget: $150,000 Format: 1×30 min Description: A celebration of the life and work of South Australian-born Hollywood pioneer J.P. McGowan.
Recipe for Murder
Network: ABC Prod Co: Stray Dog Pictures for Jumping Dog Productions Prod: Susan Lambert Co-prod: Frank Haines Writer/Dir: Sonia Bible Sales & Distribution: ABC Commercial Description: Sydney, 1953… Women went on a killing spree. Their weapon… one lethal ingredient in a Recipe for Murder.
Scarlet Road
Network SBS Prod Co: Paradigm Pictures Prod: Pat Fiske Dir/Co-prod: Catherine Scott Description Follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, she specialises in a new and emerging clientele – people with disability.
Second Australians
Prod Off: Victoria Prod Co: Renegade Films Prod: Alex West, Lucy Maclaren Writer: Alex West, Sara Tiefenbrun Dir: Ben Shakleford Fin: Film Victoria Description: This three-part documentary series will draw on a host of historians to chronicle Australia’s story of immigration, of its initial restriction and subsequent liberalisation, and how the Australian dream unfolded.
Documentary in Post-Production
Jandamarra’s War
Network: ABC Prod Co: Electric Pictures and Wawili Pitjas Prod: Eileen Torres and Andrew Ogilvie Dir/Writer: Mitch Torres Prod Off: Kimberley, WA Post-production: Perth, WA Shoot: 16 – 20 November 2009, 29-30 March and 17 -31 May 2010 Completion: October 15 Gauge: HDCam Format: 55 min Description: In the pantheon of Australian outlaw heroes there are no Aborigines. The time has come to add the name of Jandamarra. The one time friend of white station owners, Jandamarra a Bunuba warrior of the West Kimberley, turns against the invading pastoralists to defend his land and culture from decimation. His tactics of retaliation bring him admiration from his own and retribution from the colonists, writing his name into the history books as one of Australia’s unsung outlaws. Contact: Electric Pictures – 33 Canning Highway, East Fremantle WA, (08) 9339 1133, admin@electricpictures.com.au; Wawili Pitjas – PO Box 468, Broome WA 6725, (08) 9192 8588, admin@wawili.com.au
Masterminds: The State of the Union
Prod Off: Melbourne Prod Co: Radiant Films Prod/Dir: Corey Baudinette DOP: Daniel Graetz Fin: Independent/Private Filming locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, New York, Wellington, Adelaide Shoot 15/02-30/05, 2010 Gauge: Red One HD 4K Cast : Bruce Beresford, Eva Orner, Robert Connolly, Jan Chapman, Scott Hicks, Lawrence Turman, Lynda Obst, James McTeigue, David Court, Marian Macgowan, Kerry Heysen, Adam Elliot Description: An interactive feature documentary looking at the evolving Director – Producer relationship, and how a rapidly changing industry impacts the creative process of feature film making. Featuring in-depth interviews with leading Australian producers and directors working independently and in the studio system, authors and industry commentators. Contact : corey@radiantfilms.com