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St Kilda South Vic 3182
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Anatomy
- 2012
- Documentary
- 12 x 30mins
- Completed
ANATOMY is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories.
Anatomy series 1
- 2008
- Documentary
- 3 x 30mins
- Completed
ANATOMY is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories – Skin, Heart and Muscle – which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process. They all touch upon a wide range of human experience and emotion well beyond the boundaries of traditional arts documentary.
Anatomy series 2
- 2010
- Documentary
- 3 x 26mins
- Completed
The second series of ANATOMY explores the ways artists/performers deal with the subject of sex and the human body to give us an insight into how sexuality and the body work as driving forces in the creative process. However, there is a stronger thematic integrity as each episode deals (quite differently) with the central theme of identity. The series looks at how artists tackle questions about gender identity (MIND), sexual identity (FACE) and racial identity (EYE) within their divergent artistic practice.
Bogan Pride
- 2008
- TV drama
- 6 x 30mins
- Completed
BOGAN PRIDE is about Jenny Cragg, a smart, endearing teenage fugly living in Boonelg. Her aunty Cassandra's become extremely annoying since her gay husband left. Her best friends Amy Lee and Nigella are extremely religious. And her neighbour Nick is extremely good looking. What's a bogan girl to do? She'll enter a dance battle to win $10,000 for her Mum's stomach stapling operation and hopes to impress her crush, become closer to God, and get revenge on the school skanks.
Call Me Mum
- 2005
- TV drama
- 76mins
- Completed
When Kate decides to reunite her Torres Strait Islander foster son with his birth mother, dangerous family and racial tensions surface.
Cosenza Vecchia
- 2000
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Completed
Australian theatre director David Pledger embarks on an expedition into the memory of his past by visiting his mother's birthplace in Calabria, Italy.
Exposed
- 1995
- Documentary
- 8mins
- Completed
A filmmaker makes a documentary about a photographer. David Edwards has been taking photographs of naked men for the past 11 years. But in this case, who is the voyeur and who is the exhibitionist? An examination of the nature of looking.
Heart
- 2008
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Completed
Shot with rare intimacy, HEART reveals the origins of creative inspiration as artist Jacqui Stockdale embarks on a portrait of her long-time muse, Rose. As past storms of their personal life break around them, we witness the changing nature of love within the artistic process.
The Home Song Stories
- 2007
- Feature
- 105mins
- Completed
The story of Rose, a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, and her struggle to survive in Australia with her two young children. An epic tale of mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, unrequited love, betrayal and hidden secrets that spans continents and decades.
Lou
- 2010
- Feature
- 85mins
- Completed
The tender story of the relationship between 11-year-old Lou and her grandfather. Not long after Lou’s father walks out of her life, her grandfather crashes in. But when Doyle comes to stay Lou discovers, against all her expectations, the healing power of love.
Man Made: The Story of Two Men and a Baby
- 2003
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Completed
Tony and Lee, a gay male couple from Melbourne, wanted a family. IVF and adoption were not possible so Tony and Lee merged their sperm and using an egg from a separate donor placed a fertilised embryo in the womb of a US surrogate.
Mrs Craddock's Complaint
- 1996
- Short film
- 10mins
- Completed
Mrs Craddock discovers why the toilet block around the corner is so busy.
Muscle
- 2008
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Completed
MUSCLE explores the strength and fragility of the human body as Jo Lancaster, Simon Yates and Mozes, the three members of performance troupe Acrobat, reveal their emotional and physical struggles with illness, injury and motherhood.
Saved
- 2009
- TV drama
- 100mins
- Completed
Centring on Julia Weston, an advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention and her increasing attraction towards him.
Skin
- 2008
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Completed
SKIN is an intimate and confronting film exploring art, the body and mortality. Ex de Medici is an artist and tattooist whose work is influenced by a deeply philosophical approach to the world. Geoff Ostling is an elderly gay man whose extreme approach to beauty, sexuality and his body seems to be at odds with what he projects to the outside world. Together they are forced to confront profound issues of mortality, how our society deals with and defines what can be called art, and where the power and ownership lies when it comes to our own body.
Two Men and Two Babies
- 2007
- Documentary
- 60mins
- Completed
A unique insight into the fascinating 'brave new world' of reproduction and parenthood, tracing the conception, birth and life experiences of a new generation of children born into alternative family structures.
Whatever Happened To Brenda Hean?
- 2008
- Documentary
- 90mins
- Completed
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRENDA HEAN? tells the remarkable story of Brenda Hean- one of the first leaders of an environmental political party in the world- whose fight to save Tasmania's Lake Pedder lead to her mysterious disappearance in 1972. Thirty-five years later a filmmaker undertakes a quest to discover the truth.

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