Production Funding Approvals - 19 August 2008

 

Features | Documentaries | TV Drama | Indigenous

 

FEATURES

 

Letter of Intent

END OF ANXIETY
Agenda Film Productions Pty Ltd
Executive Producer Michelle Harrison
Producer Ian Iveson
Writer/Director Marty Murphy
Synopsis The End of Anxiety is an ironic comedy about life, love and the pursuit of happiness in our post-September 11 world.

MAD BASTARDS
Bush Turkey Films Pty Ltd
Executive Producer Martin Fabinyi
Consultant Producer David Jowsey
Producers Alan Pigram, Stephen Pigram
Director/Producer Brendan Fletcher
Synopsis Mad Bastards is a feature drama set on Australia’s last frontier – the vast and remote Kimberley region, WA. A raw, gutsy character film, it’s a meditation on violence, community and the living spirit of contemporary Aboriginal people of the Kimberley. It features performances and stories from real people in the Kimberley rather than actors, all weaved through the music of Broome legendary musicians The Pigram Brothers.

Production approvals

CHARLIE AND BOOTS
Instinct Entertainment
Executive Producers Thomas Augsberger, Andrew Mackie, Richard Payten
Producers Shana Levine, Dean Murphy, David Redman
Writers Stewart Faichney, Dean Murphy
Director Dean Murphy
Sales and Distribution Instinct Eden Rock International, Transmission
Synopsis Boots McFarland and his estranged dad Charlie head off to Cape York Peninsula to drop a line off the northern most tip of Australia

THE CUP
The Cup Pty Ltd
Executive Producers Kirk D’Amico, Greg Sitch, Joel Pearlman, Omnilab
Producers Jan Bladier, David Lee, Lance Hool
Producer/Director Simon Wincer
Writers Eric O’Keefe, Simon Wincer
Sales and Distribution Village Roadshow, Myriad
Synopsis Probably no race had a more extraordinary effect on the nation than the running of the 2002 Melbourne Cup. At the heart of this true story is a young jockey, Damien Oliver, who having lost 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 of all sport.

LOVE AND MORTAR
Cascade Films Pty Ltd
Producers David Parker, Richard Keddie, Nadia Tass
Writers Lynne Renew and David Parker
Director Nadia Tass
Sales and Distribution Fox (Aust/NZ), Content (ROW)
Synopsis A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.

MAD BASTARDS
Bush Turkey Films Pty Ltd
Executive Producer Martin Fabinyi
Consultant Producer David Jowsey
Producers Alan Pigram, Stephen Pigram
Director/Producer Brendan Fletcher
Sales and Distribution Mushroom Pictures, Hopscotch, Maximum
Synopsis Mad Bastards is a feature drama set on Australia’s last frontier – the vast and remote Kimberley region, WA. A raw, gutsy character film, it’s a meditation on violence, community and the living spirit of contemporary Aboriginal people of the Kimberley. It features performances and stories from real people in the Kimberley rather than actors, all weaved through the music of Broome legendary musicians The Pigram Brothers.