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FEATURES - 8 March 2011

THE 20-SOMETHING SURVIVAL GUIDE
Eddie Wong Films Pty Ltd
Producer Jodi Matterson
Executive Producers Bruna Papandrea, Simon Bosanquet, Mark Huffam
Writer Michael Lucas
Director Peter Templeman
International Sales Marble Hill/SC Films International
Australian Distributor Icon
Synopsis A freewheeling 20-something guy learns he will be infertile in a month, so he has to find someone to conceive with before it's too late.

BIG MAMMA’S BOY
Valarc Films
Producers Matteo Bruno, Frank Lotito
Writer Frank Lotito
Director Franco Di Chiera
Australian Distributor Madman
Synopsis A comedy about life, love and lasagna.

THE KATH AND KIM FILUM
Riley Turner Productions Pty Ltd
Producers Rick McKenna, Jane Turner, Gina Riley
Writers Jane Turner, Gina Riley
Director Ted Emery
International Sales Royalty & Distribution Services
Australian Distributor Royalty & Distribution Services/Roadshow
Synopsis A Fountain Lakes Fairytale. Kath and Kim’s whirlwind trip OS becomes a vajazzling tale of love, lust and revolution… What’s not to like?

THE LAST GREAT APES
Visionquest Entertainment
Producer Norm Wilkinson
Director Jeremy Hogarth
Writers Norm Wilkinson, Jeremy Hogarth
International Sales Park Entertainment, NWave (Imax)
Australian Distributor Pinnacle, NWave (Imax)
Synopsis The world’s great apes are in desperate trouble. Their very survival is under threat. They now have a new champion – someone prepared to stand on the barricades and fight for them.

FEATURES - 16 March 2011

DRIFT
World-Wide-Mind Films Pty Ltd
Producer Michele Bennett, Tim Duffy, Myles Pollard
Executive Producer Joan Peters
Writer Morgan O’Neill
Co-directors Morgan O’Neill, Ben Nott
International Sales TF1
Distributor Hopscotch
Synopsis It’s 1972 and after escaping their brutal past, the Fisher brothers start a new life in a remote Australian coastal town. Now they must battle suspicious locals, killer waves and ruthless bikers as they struggle to kick-start a business from their greatest passion – surfing.

SATELLITE BOY
Satellite Pictures Pty Ltd
Producers David Jowsey, Sue Seeary
Writer/Director Catriona McKenzie
International Sales Celluloid Dreams
Distributors Hopscotch, ABC TV
Synopsis Satellite Boy is a film about a small boy, Pete, who tries to save his home from developers. It's a story about courage and friendship that reveals how powerful a dream can be… if you don’t understand it's meant to be impossible.

FEATURES - 30 May 2011

MENTAL
Story Bridge Films Pty Ltd and Zucker Productions
Producers Todd Fellman, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker
Writer PJ Hogan
Director PJ Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
International Sales Arclight
Distribution Universal (Australia, New Zealand and UK)
Synopsis When local politician Barry Moochmore commits his wife to a mental hospital he suddenly finds himself alone and with five teenage daughters that he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hitchhiker named Shaz and installs her as the nanny in their home. Shaz is charismatic, hot-tempered, inspiring and completely crazy… and the best thing that’s ever happened to the Moochmore family.

FEATURES - 23 JULY 2011

JUNGLE
Pictures in Paradise Pty Ltd, See-Saw Films and Locomotion Pictures
Producers Chris Brown, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Dana Lustig
Writers Justin Monjo, Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Directors Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Australian Distributor Transmission Films
Synopsis What begins as a dream adventure for three backpackers and their enigmatic guide, quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the wilderness. Jungle is the incredible true story of Yossi Ghinsberg’s triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. It is a tale of survival, human fortitude and social manipulation, against the wildest backdrop on the planet.

LAST DANCE
Ulah Pty Ltd
Producer Antony I Ginnane
Writers Terence Hammond, David Pulbrook
Director David Pulbrook
International Sales Highpoint Media Group
Australian Distributor Becker Film Group
Synopsis Last Dance is a taut human story, torn from today’s headlines but touching on themes as old as the human condition itself – faith, freedom, love, loss and hope.

THE ROCKET
Red Lamp Films
Producer Sylvia Wilczynski
Executive Producer Bridget Ikin
Writer/Director Kim Mordaunt
International Sales Memento Films International
Australian Distributor Curious Films
Synopsis A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey, to prove he’s not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.

SAVE YOUR LEGS
Save Your Legs
Producers Robyn Kershaw, Nick Batzias
Writers Brendan Cowell
Director Boyd Hicklin
International Sales Protagonist Pictures
Australian Distributor Madman Entertainment
Synopsis When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realises his best mates are growing up and moving on, he grasps at a boyhood dream and leads his mates and their D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it’s time to start playing shots for himself.

STORM SURFERS 3D
6ixty Foot Productions in association with Firelight Productions
Producers Ellenor Cox, Marcus Gillezeau
Writer Chris Nelius
Directors Chris Nelius, Justin McMillan
International Sales RedBull Media House & 6ixty Foot Productions
Australian Distributor Madman
Synopsis Storm Surfers 3D follows the story of big wave Australian surfers Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time surfing world champion Tom Carroll, as they work with surf forecaster Ben Matson to track massive Australian weather systems, hunt down big waves and surf the most dangerous breaks of their careers.

WOLF CREEK 2
Emu Creek Pictures / 403 Productions
Producers Greg McLean, Matt Hearn
Writers Greg McLean, Aaron Sterns
Director Greg McLean
International Sales Arclight
Australian Distributor Roadshow
Synopsis The Outback once more becomes a place of mind-bending horror, action and suspense as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-shooter, Mick Taylor.

FEATURES - 21 september 2011

100 BLOODY ACRES
Cyan Films Pty Ltd
Producers Julie Ryan, Kate Croser
Executive Producer Jonathan Page
Writer/Directors Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes
International Sales The Works
Australian Distributor Hopscotch
Synopsis They’re not psycho killers... they’re small business operators.

THE RAILWAY MAN
Archer Street and Pictures in Paradise
Producers Andy Paterson, Chris Brown
Writers Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson
Director Jonathan Teplitzky
International Sales Lionsgate International
Australian Distributor Transmission/Paramount
Synopsis An extraordinary true story of heroism, inhumanity and the redeeming power of love based on Eric Lomax’s best-selling account of confronting his WWII torturer 30 years on, starring Oscar®-award winning actor Colin Firth.

REKINDLING VENUS
Felix Media
Producer John Maynard
Writer/Director Lynette Wallworth
International Sales Maze/Sky Skan (co-venture)
Australian & UK Distributor Footprint
Synopsis A fulldome film experience and multi-platform work immersing the viewer in the spectacle of fluorescent coral reefs and marine life as the pivot point for global co-operation in the face of climate change.

FEATURES - 5 DECEmber 2011

2:22
Lightstream Pictures Pty Ltd
Producer Jackie O’Sullivan
Executive Producers Garrett Kelleher, Bruce Davey, Paul Brooks, Lawrence Inglee
Co-writer/Director/Co-producer Paul Currie
Co-writer Todd Stein
International Sales Gold Circle Films, Lionsgate International
Australian Distributor Icon Productions
Synopsis Dylan Boyd’s life as an air traffic controller is permanently derailed when an ominous pattern of events begins to permeate his life, funnelling him into Grand Central Station every day at 2.22pm. When he falls for a beautiful woman, it seems their lives were meant to intertwine long ago. With a grim fate looming, Dylan must solve the riddle of 2.22 to preserve a love that’s second chance has finally come.

THE GRANDMOTHERS
Hopscotch Features, Ciné-@, Mon Voisin Productions, Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma
Producers Andrew Mason, Philippe Carcassonne, Michel Feller, Dominique Besnehard, Francis Boespflug
Writer Christopher Hampton
Director Anne Fontaine
International Sales Gaumont
Australian Distributor Hopscotch/eOne
Synopsis Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing’s beautiful and heart-wrenching story of two lifelong friends who fall in love with each other’s teenage sons. The Grandmothers is an erotic tale of misguided love and a celebration of the enduring nature of female friendship.

THE MULE
The Mule Development Co.
Producer Paul Clarke
Writer/Co-producers Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson
Executive Producer Bruce Kane
Director Tony Mahony
International Sales eOne
Australian Distributor Hopscotch
Synopsis Ray Jenkins, an unlikely drug mule from Sunshine, Victoria, takes on all the authority figures in his life using the only option within his control – holding on!

THE PAPPAS BROTHERS
Pank & Martin
Producers George Pank, Eddie Martin, James Gay-Rees
Executive Producers Jude Troy, Rachel Okine, Paul McGowan
Director Eddie Martin
Editor Chris King
International Sales eOne, Cinetic
Australian Distributor Hopscotch/eOne
Synopsis Blood may be thicker than water but in the case of Tas and Ben Pappas who rose from the western suburbs of Melbourne to become the #1 and #2 skateboarders in the world, it was not sufficient to prevent both brothers from falling into a drug-fuelled spiral to hell from which only one returns.

PATRICK
FG Film Productions (Australia) Pty Ltd in association with Rising Sun Pictures
Producer Antony I Ginnane
Writer Justin King
Director Mark Hartley
International Sales Bankside Films
Australian Distributor Umbrella Entertainment
Synopsis For three years Patrick has been lying mute and immobile, a patient in Dr Roget’s clinic for the comatose. Dr Roget has been discharging increasingly large doses of electricity into Patrick’s brain, hoping for a sign of brain function. When young nurse Kathy starts working at the clinic, Patrick figures out how to utilise all that pent up power with deadly effect. A reimagining of Richard Franklin’s 1970s chiller.

THESE FINAL HOURS
8th In Line Pty Ltd
Producer Liz Kearney
Executive Producer Robert Connolly
Writer/Director Zak Hilditch
International Sales Maze Film Sales, Celluloid Nightmares, XYZ
Australian Distributor Footprint Films
Synopsis A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.