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Features - 9 April 2009
Production Approvals
BENEATH HILL 60
The Silence Productions
Producer Bill Leimbach
Writer David Roach
Director Jeremy Sims
Sales and Distribution Transmission, Intandem
Synopsis The gripping story of Australia’s secret silent war beneath the Western Front.
Features - 6 May 2009
Production Approvals
THE REEF
Prodigy Movies
Producer Michael Robertson
Writer/Director Andrew Traucki
Australia and NZ Distribution Polyphony Entertainment
International Sales Lightning Entertainment
Synopsis When their boat capsizes on the Great Barrier Reef, four friends swim for land, stalked by a Great White Shark.
SWERVE
Duo Art Productions
Producers Helen Leake, Kent Smith, Craig Lahiff
Writer/Director Craig Lahiff
Distributor Kojo Pictures
Sales Agent Moviehouse Entertainment
Synopsis A fast-paced film noir set in the South Australian outback, in the hands of an experienced feature team.
features - 16 June 2009
TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN
Ambience Entertainment/Omnilab Media
| Producer |
Andrew Mason |
| Executive Producers |
Christopher Mapp, Matthew Street and David Whealy |
| Writer/Director |
Stuart Beattie |
| Sales and Distribution |
Paramount |
| Synopsis |
When their country is invaded and families taken, eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight. |
WOG BOY 2: KINGS OF MYKONOS
See-Saw Films Pty Ltd and G.O. Films Pty Ltd
| Producers |
Emile Sherman and Nick Giannopoulos |
| Executive Producers |
Iain Canning and Andrew Penney |
| Co-Producer |
Sally Ayre Smith |
| Writers |
Chris Anastassiades and Nick Giannopoulos |
| Director |
Peter Andrikidis |
| Cast |
Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo |
| Sales and Distribution |
Arclight Films International and Transmission/Paramount |
| Synopsis |
Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis inherits a beach on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he’s never met. |
UNINHABITED
Uninhabited Films Pty Ltd
| Producers |
Bill Bennett, Silvana Milat, Paul Quin |
| Writer/Director |
Bill Bennett |
| Sales and Distribution |
SC Films International Limited and Polyphony Entertainment Pty Ltd |
| Synopsis |
A young couple goes to a remote and deserted coral island for a holiday. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when they discover that the island is not uninhabited after all. |
Completion Loans
MISSING WATER
Imaginefly Pty Ltd
| Producer/Writer/Director |
Khoa Do |
| Synopsis |
Missing Water tells the story of four refugees fleeing Vietnam in 1980, but in a most unusual way. The present melds with the past as a quiet factory worker recalls the time she took to the sea in a creaky riverboat in search of a better life. But what she experienced on that journey haunts her still... |
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
Noise and Light Pty Ltd
| Producer |
Maggie Miles |
| Writers |
Jonathan auf der Heide, Oscar Redding |
| Director |
Jonathan auf der Heide |
| Sales and Distribution |
Bavaria Film International and Madman |
| Synopsis |
Based on the true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict, whose confessions were so confronting and horrific they were not at first believed. |
features - 5 August 2009
RED DOG
Woss Group Film Productions Pty Ltd
Executive Producers Graham Burke, Joel Pearlman, Aaron Ryder, Su Armstrong
Producers Nelson Woss, Julie Ryan
Writer Daniel Taplitz
Director Kriv Stenders
Sales and Distribution Essential Entertainment, Roadshow
Synopsis Set in Western Australian's Pilbara, Red Dog is based on the Louis de Bernières novel about a dog who brings together a community.
features - 7 September 2009
ORANGES AND SUNSHINE
See-Saw Films Pty Ltd and Sixteen Films
Producers Camilla Bray, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning
Writer Rona Munro
Director Jim Loach
Sales and Distribution Icon Film Distribution (Australia, UK and International)
Tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children in care to Australia from the United Kingdom. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own wellbeing, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Magic Films Pty Ltd
Executive Producer Tim White
Producer Jessica Brentnall
Writer/Director Julia Leigh
Sales and Distribution Transmission, E1 Films and UTA
Lucy, a disenchanted and financially strapped university student, accepts work as a sleeper in a ‘Sleeping Beauty’ chamber: “You will go to sleep, you will wake up. It will be as if the hours never existed.” The first man to visit Lucy venerates her youth and beauty. The second is sadistic. Nonetheless she returns ...
features - 25 September 2009
THE CUP
The Cup Pty Ltd
Executive Producers Greg Sitch, Lance Hool
Producers Simon Wincer, Jan Bladier and David Lee
Writers Eric O’Keefe and Simon Wincer
Director Simon Wincer
Sales and Distribution Roadshow, Myriad
Synopsis Probably no race had a more extraordinary effect on a nation than the running of Australia’s 2002 Melbourne Cup. At the heart of this true story is a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident just days before the race, suffers through a series of discouraging defeats only to triumph in one of the most thrilling finales in all sport.
features - 28 OCtober 2009
Low-budget Feature Film Fund (Completion Funding)
THE HORSEMEN
Kastle Films Pty Ltd
Producers Steven Kastrissios, Rebecca Dakin
Director/Writer Steven Kastrissios
Sales and Distribution Media 8 Entertainment and Umbrella Entertainment
Synopsis A revenge-thriller that tears open an unflinching study of grief and retribution.
LITTLE DEATHS
The Difference Engine
Executive Producer Jason Byrne
Producers Marni Holuigue, Nina Hutchinson, Lacey Fitzgerald, Chris Kamen, Nina Hutchison, Helene Nicol, Jonathan Finney, Kate Hagar and Darran McFarlane
Writer Guila Sandler
Directors Geoff Hitchens, Sian Davies, Toby Angwin, Chris Benz, Ben Chessell, Genevieve Bailey, James Teh, Jarrah Gurrie, Fin Edquist, Giula Sandler and Melanie Brunt
Sales and Distribution Odin’s Eye and Madman
Synopsis Eleven stories about love, loss, music and sex.
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