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2013 features summary

AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2013

SINGLE-PROJECT DEVELOPMENT: FEATURE DEVELOPMENT

ALI'S WEDDING
Genre Drama, Comedy
Producers Helen Panckhurst, Michael McMahon
Executive Producer Tony Ayres
Writers Andrew Knight, Osamah Sami

B MODEL
Genre Drama
Producer/Writer/Director Rachel Griffiths
Producer Louise Smith
Writer Samantha Strauss

BERLIN SYNDROME
Genre Thriller
Producers Polly Staniford
Executive Producer Angie Fielder
Writer Shaun Grant
Director Cate Shortland
Synopsis A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

BOYS IN THE TREES
Genre Drama
Producer John Molloy
Executive Producer Michael Gudinski
Writer/Director Nicholas Verso
Synopsis Two estranged teens begrudgingly find themselves walking home together on Halloween, 1997, embarking on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.

CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS
Genre Comedy, Drama
Producer Marian Macgowan
Writer Pip Karmel
Director Jonathan Teplitzky
Synopsis A disparate and desperate group of people transcend their hopelessness and band together to find their voice, rediscovering, under the baton of their choirmaster, a dignity and purpose that their ravaged lives had threatened to destroy.

EM
Genre Romantic comedy
Producers Matthew Dabner, Karen Radzyner, Anna Vincent
Writers Matthew Dabner, Emma Jensen
Director Kate Riedl
Synopsis Jane Austen's Emma down under.

THE END OF EVERYTHING
Genre Thriller, Crime
Producer Kristian Moliere
Writer Andy Cox
Synopsis When Lizzie's best friend, Evie, disappears, Lizzie takes up her own pursuit of the truth, pushing herself into the dark centre of Evie’s teenage world until she begins to wonder whether she really knew her friend at all.

GREYLANDS
Genre Drama
Producer Tara Morice
Executive Producer Martin Fabinyi
Writer Isobelle Carmody
Director Luke Doolan
Synopsis Struggling to cope with his mother’s death, Jack enters a strange, grey world and begins to write a story for his little sister.

NYMPHAEA
Genre Animated feature
Producer Jessica Brentnall
Executive Producer Timothy White
Writers Ari Gibson, Eddie White

PALM BEACH (THOSE WERE THE DAYS)
Genre Dramatic Comedy
Producers Bryan Brown, Deb Balderstone
Writer Joanna Murray-Smith

THE RATS OF TOBRUK
Genre Action Adventure
Writer Max Mannix
Director Greg Mclean
Synopsis North Africa, 1941. Four young mates fighting in World War II make history by stopping Erwin Rommel’s dreaded Panzer Divisions at Tobruk.

REMARKABLE CREATURES
Genre Drama
Producers Heather Ogilvie, Sarah Radclyffe
Executive Producer Bruce Davey
Writer Jan Sardi
Synopsis On a windswept English beach, what two women discover will challenge the way we see the world and ultimately test their friendship. Based on the acclaimed novel by Tracy Chevalier.

SALVATION CREEK
Genre Drama
Producer Heather Ogilvie
Writer Ross Grayson Bell
Director Megan Simpson Huberman
Synopsis A high-flying magazine editor turns her back on her career after the sudden death of her husband and brother. Sometimes salvation turns out to be a place of unexpected beauty.

SERIOUSLY RED
Genre Comedy
Producer Matt Reeder
Writer Krew Boylan
Synopsis A self-confessed clown decides to take herself seriously by becoming a Dolly Parton impersonator. To find who she really is she first has to become someone else.

THIS YEAR’S ASHES
Genre Drama
Writer Jane Bodie
Synopsis A touching urban fable of connection and redemption, adapted from the 2011 stage play of the same name.

TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG
Genre Thriller, Western
Producers Liz Watts, Hal Vogel, David Aukin
Executive Producer Vincent Sheehan
Writer Joe Penhall
Director Justin Kurzel
Synopsis Based on Peter Carey’s award-winning novel, Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang is a fresh and startling take on this familiar tale.

TURKEY SHOOT RESURRECTED
Genre Action Adventure, Thriller
Producer Antony I. Ginnane
Writers Belinda McClory, Jon Hewitt
Director Jon Hewitt
Synopsis Disgraced ex-Navy SEAL Rich Tyler is the next contestant – number #777 – in the kill-or-be-killed smash hit TV reality show, Turkey Shoot.

ZEBRAS
Genre Drama
Producers Jim McElroy, Marta McElroy
Co-Producer Michael S Murphey
Writer David Williamson
Director Bruce Beresford
Synopsis In South Africa in 1983, one man defies racist Apartheid laws when he coaches a multi-racial team to a championship. Based on a true story.