Latest Production Funding Approvals - 17 December 2008

 

Features | Documentaries | TV Drama | Indigenous

TV DRAMA

 

Television Drama

RESCUE
Southern Star Entertainment
Producers Sarah Smith and Julie McGauran
Directors TBC
Sales and Distribution Nine Network and Southern Star International
Synopsis Dean Gallagher, 29, and Chase, 26, are brothers. Competitive alpha males, they argue over everything, agree on nothing, but defend each other from outsiders no matter what. They’re also members of the Special Operations Rescue Unit. Together they go about their everyday jobs of saving lives.

Children's Television

CHATROOM CHICKS
Southern Star Entertainment
Supervising Producer Dennis Keily
Producer/ Noel Price
Writers Shelley Birse, John Armstrong, Sue Hore, Kym Goldsworthy, Noel Price
Director Ralph Strasser
Sales and Distribution Nine Network and Southern Star International
Synopsis Chatroom Chicks is about three young teenage girls – one German, one Singaporean and one Australian – who become friends while studying together at an international school in Singapore. The girls are united by their bright, lively personalities and by their common interests in contemporary dance – an activity in which they all excel.

DANCE ACADEMY
Werner Film Productions
Executive Producer Bernadette O'Mahony
Producer Joanna Werner  
Writers Samantha Strauss and Liz Doran
Sales and Distribution ZDF Enterprises and ACTF
Broadcasters ABC and ZDF
Synopsis When Tara Webster leaves her home in the country to be a student at the National Academy of Dance, she is sure all her dreams are about to come true. But does Tara have what it takes to make it in this high-pressured world when sometimes being an ordinary teenager can be difficult enough?