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2014 features summary

JULY - SEPTEMBER 2014

SINGLE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT: FEATURE DEVELOPMENT


ALI’S WEDDING (AKA A GOOD LIE)
Genre
Comedy
Producers Sheila Jayadev, Helen Panckhurst
Executive Producers Tony Ayres, Michael McMahon
Director Wayne Blair
Writers Osamah Sami, Andrew Knight
Synopsis After a reckless lie sets off a catastrophic chain of events, Ali, the son of a Muslim cleric, finds himself caught between his sense of duty to his family and following his heart.

BANG BANG MING WANG
Genre
Action Comedy
Producer Samantha Jennings
Executive Producer Sheila Hanahan-Taylor
Writers Will Kuether, Paul Sammes
Synopsis A hapless but good-hearted waiter becomes an unwitting hero when he is forced to protect a beautiful heiress from the Chinatown underworld.

BEREFT
Genre
Crime, Thriller
Producers Sheila Jayadev, Lyn Norfor
Executive Producers Greg Sitch, Nina Stevenson, Prue Williams
Writers Andy Cox, Ranald Allan
Synopsis 1919. A suicidal young soldier hiding in the hills surrounding his home town, meets an orphan girl who helps him unlock the truth behind his sister’s murder – a crime for which he was wrongly accused. Based on the novel by Chris Womersley.

THE CHILDREN
Genre
Family Drama
Producers Sue Taylor, Tenille Kennedy
Writer/Director Claire McCarthy
Synopsis Hard-bitten war correspondent, Mandy Connelly, reluctantly returns home to Australia only to discover that some of the most challenging stories are found within her own family.

CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Producer Marian Macgowan
Executive Producer Jason Stephens
Director Jonathan Teplitzky
Writer Pip Karmel
Synopsis A choir that brings together the disparate and the desperate provides its reluctant choirmaster with unexpected discoveries, not the least himself.

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OTTO BLOOM
Genre
Mystery
Producers Melanie Coombs, Alicia Brown, Mish Armstrong
Writer/Director Cris Jones
Cast Xavier Samuel
Synopsis A fictional documentary about a man who experiences time in reverse, and his impact on the world around him as he passes backwards through the years.

LOST CAT
Genre
Comedy Romance
Producers Julie Byrne, Andy Cox, Kristian Moliere
Writer Andy Cox
Synopsis When Katherine’s cat, Tibby, disappears and then returns sleeker and healthier than before, Katherine’s world is turned upside down sending her on a cat’s-eye-view-of-the-world adventure with new lover, Annie. Based on the comic memoir by Caroline Paul and illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton.

LUCY, LUCY
Genre
Science Fiction, Thriller
Producer Stuart Parkyn
Writers Adam Spellicy, Penelope Chai
Synopsis Years after a plague kills every woman on Earth, the world is repopulated with identical, submissive female clones. Now, one of them wants her independence.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Producer Marian Macgowan
Director Gillian Armstrong
Writer Lally Katz
Synopsis Cathy, a 27-year-old woman with a secret heartbreak, is lost until she meets her neighbour Anna, a cantankerous 80-year-old Hungarian woman, equally crippled by history. They begin a friendship that will ultimately save them both.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
Genre
Drama
Producers Michael Cody, Katja Adomeit
Director Sam Holst
Writers Sam Holst, Danielle Harris
Synopsis Rene and Nadine – a young European couple travelling on the other side of the world – suffer a sudden trauma that throws their relationship into chaos. But far away from home, it is each other they will need most in order to survive.

PINK MIST
Genre
Romance, Action, Drama
Producer Sylvia Wilczynski
Writer/Director Kim Mordaunt

SHADOW WARRIOR
Genre
Drama
Producer Emile Sherman
Writer Beatrix Christian

TABOO
Genre
Drama
Producers Carolyn Johnson, Bentley Dean, Martin Butler
Writers John Collee, Bentley Dean, Martin Butler
Directors  Bentley Dean, Martin Butler
Synopsis A ground-breaking glimpse into life, love, war and peace on the Island of Tanna, one of the last tribal societies on earth.

UNTITLED GC PROJECT
Genre
Drama
Producers Christopher Sharp, Timothy White
Writer Natasha Pincus

WAKE WITH ME
Genre
Romantic Comedy
Producers Lauren Edwards, Rosemary Blight
Director Maia Horniak
Writer Joshua Tyler
Synopsis A pair of unlikely and seemingly incompatible soul mates meet for the first time on the night they get engaged to other people. Each morning from then on, they magically wake up together, no matter where they had gone to bed the night before.

 

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