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2015 features summary

SINGLE-PROJECT DEVELOPMENT: FEATURE DEVELOPMENT

APRIL 2015

ADDITION
Genre Drama, Romantic Comedy
Producers Bruna Papandrea, Cristina Pozzan
Director Kate Dennis
Writer Harry Cripps
Synopsis A romantic comedy about an extraordinary woman and an ordinary man.

BLUE ROSE
Genre Drama
Producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine, Mark Lazarus, Gary Hamilton
Executive Producer Mike Gabrawy
Director Ben Lewin
Writers Ben Lewin, Wain Fimeri
Synopsis Once regarded as the world’s greatest pianist, an elderly Percy Grainger reflects on his youth, when his young heart yearned for freedom and his Swedish love, Ella, while it was bound to his fragile mother, Rose.

DANCE ACADEMY: THE COMEBACK
Genre Family
Producer Joanna Werner
Director Jeffrey Walker
Writer Sam Strauss
Synopsis Former ballet student Tara Webster needs to find the courage to return from a crippling injury in order to fulfil her destiny as a star ballerina.

HAWKWOOD
Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime
Writer/Director/Producer Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Synopsis Jack is an ageing mercenary at the end of his career – ricocheting from crime to crime in the backwaters of Africa. When he finds work as a domestic body guard for a young family in a gated community, Jack’s struggle with violence slowly begins to devour him. Hawkwood is a visceral, transcendental journey from chaos to grace.

THE HIGH GROUND
Genre Action Thriller
Producers David Jowsey, Stephen Johnson, Witiyana Marika  
Executive Producer Jack Thompson
Director Stephen Johnson
Writer Chris Anastassiades

LOS ALAMOS
Genre Thriller
Producers Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Rachel Gardner
Writer Luke Davies
Synopsis Spring, 1945. Michael Connolly, a disgraced intelligence operative, enters a labyrinth of secrets and espionage when he arrives at the high security military base of Los Alamos. Sent to investigate a seemingly open-and-shut murder case, Connolly is thrown into the heart of the Manhattan Project and must navigate a path through military protocol, political intrigue and personal agendas in order to uncover the truth in the most secretive place in the world.

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.

THE NORTH WIND
Genre Drama
Producers Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Rachel Gardner
Writer Alice Addison

PALM BEACH
Genre Comedy, Drama
Producers Bryan Brown, Deborah Balderstone
Writer Joanna Murray-Smith

PIG’S BLOOD
Genre Black Comedy
Producer Jannine Barnes
Writer/Director Grant Scicluna
Synopsis Sent to Australia from Naples to settle a 22-year-old score, Salvatore’s plans get complicated by a trashy suburban girl who just wants to have a good time and kill her stepfather. Based on the novella by Peter Robb.

PIG WING PIE
Genre Animated action adventure
Producer Martha Coleman  
Director Simon Rippingale
Writer Erica Harrison

PINK MIST
Genre Romance, Action, Drama
Producer Sylvia Wilczynski
Writer/Director Kim Mordaunt
Synopsis The lives of three people, from three corners of the world, collide in Africa.

SALVATION CREEK
Genre Drama
Producer Heather Ogilvie
Writer/Director Megan Simpson Huberman
Synopsis After her husband and brother die within days of each other, a woman throws in her job, sells her house and buys a rundown waterside shack in a tight-knit community on idyllic Pittwater. In a place that demands an open heart, she unexpectedly finds friendship and love. Based on Susan Duncan’s bestselling memoir.

THEFT
Genre Thriller
Producers Alicia Brown, Melanie Coombs, Mish Armstrong
Writer Gerard Lee
Synopsis Theft: A Love Story, adapted from the novel by Peter Carey. Michael ‘Butcher’ Boone springs from jail and in an effort to rekindle his former reputation as a ‘famous artist’ immediately begins a new dark work, a painting based on one of his dead mother’s tea-towels. But times have changed and the only way forward now is scam and forgery.