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2016–2017 production funding

TV Drama Production | Special Initiatives


June 2017

BLUEY
Ludo Studio Pty Ltd
Producer
Charlie Aspinwall
Executive Producer Daley Pearson
Director / Writer Joe Brumm
Broadcaster ABC Kids, BBC Worldwide Channel: CBeebies
International Sales BBC Worldwide
Synopsis Bluey is a loveable, ruff-and-tumble little six-year-old cattle dog girl whose wild imagination brings her family and the whole neighbourhood into her world of fun and games…

APRIL 2017

DEAD LUCKY – 4 Part Crime Thriller
Subtext Pictures Pty Ltd
Producers
Ellie Beaumont, Diane Haddon, Drew Proffitt
Executive Producers Ellie Beaumont, Drew Proffitt, Greg Sitch, Nina Stevenson
Director David Caesar
Writers Ellie Beaumont, Drew Proffitt
Broadcaster SBS
International Sales DRG International, Binge Distribution
Synopsis On a perfect Sydney day, the lives of two feuding detectives, a share-house of international students, a pair of corrupt shop owners, a grieving widow and a gunman all collide, leaving one dead and another missing.

RIOT
Werner Film Productions Pty Ltd
Producers
Joanna Werner, Louise Smith
Director Jeffrey Walker
Writer Greg Waters, Carolyn Anderson (story by)
Broadcaster ABC
International Sales NBCU
Synopsis Riot shines a spotlight on Australia’s 1970s Gay Rights Movement and the passionate individuals who were unwavering in their fight for decriminalisation, recognition and equality.

ROMPER STOMPER NEXT GEN
Roadshow Rough Diamond
Producers
John Edwards, Daniel Edwards
Directors Geoffrey Wright, Daina Reid, James Napier Robertson
Writers Geoffrey Wright, James Napier Robertson, Malcolm Knox, Omar Musa
Broadcaster Stan
International Sales DCD
Synopsis A generation on, the violent tumult of Romper Stomper returns. Kane is the heir to Hando's violent legacy from the original film. He joins an inept far right movement, takes it over, and as events accelerate finds himself on a runaway train he can't get off. His natural mother and old members of Hando's crew have surprising new functions in this Trump/Brexit milieu – but it's not just their clashes with crazy fringe dwellers on the left, Antifa, and the Muslim recipients of their hatred – their violence has brought them to the centre of political life.

SISTERS
Shine Productions 3 Pty Ltd
Producers
Imogen Banks, Nicole O’Donohue
Director Emma Freeman
Writer Jonathan Gavin
Broadcaster Network Ten
International Sales Endemol Shine International Ltd
Synopsis When Julia Bechly, a 30-something only child discovers that her Nobel Prize-winning father secretly used his own sperm in numerous IVF procedures, she decides to track down her siblings. 

THE STRANGE CHORES
SPV TBC
Producers
Charlie Aspinwall, Colin South
Director Scott Vanden Bosch
Writer Daley Pearson (showrunner)
Broadcaster ABC ME
International Sales Boat Rocker Rights Inc.  
Synopsis Two teenage wannabe warrior-heroes and a spirited ghost girl master the skills they need to replace an ageing monster-slayer by doing his strange, supernatural chores…

UNDERBELLY FILES: CHOPPER
Screentime Pty Ltd
Producer
Kerrie Mainwaring, Karl Zwicky 
Executive Producer Rory Callaghan
Director Peter Andrikidis
Writer Justin Monjo
Broadcaster Nine Network
International Sales ScreenTime Commercial 
Synopsis CHOPPER is the untold story of the last great mystery of the infamous standover man and criminal fabricator's life: Whatever ever happened to Sid Collins?  Was Chopper able to resist vengeance?  Did Chopper kill Sid or had he - as he swore - gone straight?

THE WRONG GIRL – SEASON 2
Playmaker Media Pty Ltd
Producer
Tom Hoffie, Jessica Marais (co-producer)
Executive Producers David Maher, David Taylor
Directors Mat King, Jen Leacey, Darren Ashton, Peter Templeman
Writers Samantha Strauss, Michael Lucas, Claire Phillips, Ian Meadows, Vanessa Alexander, Sarah Walker, Josh Mapleston 
Broadcaster Network Ten
International Sales Sony 
Synopsis A contemporary romantic comedy, The Wrong Girl follows Lily Woodward (Jessica Marais), a modern woman caught between two guys – one too good to be true and the other so wrong he just might be Mr. Right.

March 2017

JUSTINE CLARKE’S TA DA!
Fredbird Entertainment
Producer
Sarah Dabro
Executive Producers Craig Graham, Sarah Dabro, Justine Clarke
Director Justine Flynn
Writers Bruce Griffiths, Clare Madsen
Australian Distributor ABC TV
International Sales ABC Commercial
Synopsis A preschool series featuring Australia’s most loved Children’s Presenter, Justine Clarke that captures all of the backstage drama, excitement and collaboration of putting on a live musical show.

November 2016

THE BUREAU OF MAGICAL THINGS
Jonathan M Shiff Productions
Executive Producers
Julia Adams, Jonathan Shiff
Producers Jonathan Shiff, Stuart Wood
Director Evan Clarry
Writer Mark Shirrefs
Australian Distributor Network Ten
International Sales ZDF Enterprises
Synopsis A children’s drama told through the eyes of a teenage girl called Kyra who uncovers a magical world.

FIGHTING SEASON
Goalpost Pictures
Executive Producers
Ben Grant, Rosemary Blight
Producer Kylie du Fresne
Writers Blake Ayshford, Kylie Needham, Tommy Murphy, Belinda Chayko
Australian Distributor Foxtel
International Sales Sky Vision
Synopsis Fighting Season is a timely and emotionally resonant series that follows the lives of a group of Australian soldiers, and their families, returned home suddenly after their commander is killed in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan. Part mystery thriller, part relationship drama, it asks us to examine the human costs of war.

FRIDAY ON MY MIND
Playmaker
Executive Producers
Sally Riley, Kym Goldsworthy
Producers Dianne Haddon, David Maher, David Taylor
Director Shaw Seet
Writer Christopher Lee
Australian Distributor ABC, Sony 
International Sales Sony
Synopsis Before INXS...before ACDC...five migrant boys took Australian music to the world.

GRACE BESIDE ME
Magpie Pictures

Producers Lois Randall, Dena Curtis
Directors Beck Cole, Adrian Russell Wills
Writers Danielle MacLean, Jon Bell, Sue McPherson, Briar Grace-Smith, Adrian Russell Wills, Tristan Savage, Erica Glynn
Australian Distributor NITV (premiere), ABC ME (second window), Disney
International Sales 9Story
Synopsis Fuzzy Mac just wants to be an ordinary teenager and have fun with her mates… but when the Ancestors have other plans and you keep seeing ghosts, that’s not so easy!

SAFE HARBOUR
Matchbox Pictures
Producer
Stephen Corvini
Director Daniel Nettheim
Writers Belinda Chayko, Phil Enchelmaier, Matt Cameron
Australian Distributor SBS
International Sales Universal Media Studios International
Synopsis Four years after six Australians on a yachting holiday came to the aid of an asylum seeker boat, a tragic series of events return to haunt them.

THE SECRET DAUGHTER Season 2
Screentime
Executive Producer
Rory Callaghan
Producers Kerrie Mainwaring, Lauren Edwards 
Director Paul Moloney, Geoff Bennett
Writers Stuart Page, Eloise Healey, Jessica Bookman, Niki Aken
Australian Distributor Seven Network, Screentime
International Sales Banjay International
Synopsis After the events of series 1, Billie Carter has committed herself to a new policy of absolute honesty, but this will be put to the test once she discovers she actually is Jack Norton’s secret daughter – and she’s not the only one.

SUNSHINE
Essential Media
Producers
Ian Collie, Sarah Shaw, Anna McLeish
Director Daina Reid
Writers Matt Cameron, Elise McCredie
Australian Distributor SBS, Roadshow 
International Sales FremantleMedia
Synopsis When a privileged suburban teen is critically assaulted, the blame is quickly laid on a group of young men from Melbourne’s South Sudanese community – jeopardising the dreams of 18-year-old star basketballer Jacob Chagai. But the truth is never black and white.

September 2016

HERE COME THE HABIBS SERIES 2
Ronde Pty Ltd, Jungle FTV Pty Ltd
Executive Producers 
Ben Davies, Jason Burrows
Producer Chloe Rickard
Writers Phil Lloyd, Rob Shehadie, Tahir Bilgic
Australian Distributor Nine Network
International Sales Nine Films
Synopsis Lebanese migrant family, 'The Habibs', continue to turn life in Australia's poshest suburb, upside down.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
FremantleMedia Australia Pty Ltd
Executive Producers 
Jo Porter, Anthony Ellis
Producer Antonia Barnard
Writers Beatrix Christian, Alice Addison
Australian Distributor Foxtel
International Sales FremantleMedia Ltd
Synopsis A trailblazing re-imagining of the iconic and timeless Australian novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic At Hanging Rock plunges viewers into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine’s Day 1900 and the far-reaching aftermath. 

PULSE
Clandestine TV, Beyond Entertainment Pty Ltd
Executive Producers 
David Ogilvy, Ron Saunders
Producers Kristine Wyld, Antony I Ginnane
Director Peter Andrikidis, Ana Kokkinos, TBC
Writers Michael Miller, Kristine Wyld, Melanie Wyld, Kristen Dunphy, Mandy McCarthy
Australian Distributor ABC
International Sales ABC Commercial
Synopsis A transplant patient becomes a doctor in the life and death world of the cardio-thoracic ward of a major teaching hospital, where she and her colleagues have to face the political, personal and professional realities of working at the coalface of an ailing medical system.

WAKE IN FRIGHT
Lingo Pictures Pty Ltd
Executive Producers
Jason Stephens, Carl Fennessy, Mark Fennessy
Producers Helen Bowden, Kristian Moliere
Director Kriv Stenders
Writer Stephen M. Irwin
Australian Distributor Network Ten
International Sales Endemol Shine International
Synopsis A young schoolteacher descends into his own personal nightmare after being marooned in a small mining town.

WARNIE
Screentime Pty Limited
Executive Producer
Rory Callaghan
Producer Kerrie Mainwaring
Writer Matt Ford
Australian Distributor Seven Network
International Sales Banjay, Screentime Commercial
Synopsis Rocked by scandal and struggling with injury, Shane battles to stay on top.
Production funding for this title was revoked in August 2017.

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Special initiatives

'Girls' Season

A FIELD GUIDE TO BEING 12
Closer Productions Pty Ltd

Producer Katrina Lucas
Director / Writer Tilda Cobham-Hervey
Synopsis Created by Tilda Cobham-Hevery and a collection of twelve, 12-year-old girls, this episode is a cross between a documentary and a devised performance piece. It’s stylised and curated but made using real 12-year-olds and their real responses to questions about who they are and what they think about the world.

FIRST DAY
Epic Films Pty Ltd
Producer Kirsty Stark
Director / Writer Julie Kalceff
Synopsis It’s Hannah’s first day of high school. It's also the first day she’ll wear a girl’s school uniform and go by her chosen name rather than the boy’s name she was given at birth.

SHAME
Karla Hart Enterprises Pty Ltd

Producer Paloma Bartsch
Director / Writer Karla Hart
Synopsis Three Aboriginal girls from Noongar country share just how embarrassing it is to be a 12-year-old girl.

SUMMER’S DAY
Summer's Day Film Pty Ltd

Producer Di Robertson
Director / Writer Hattie Dalton
Synopsis Summer navigates getting her first period with the help of her best friend Mackenzie in Byron Bay.

THE FUNNY ONES
unko Pty Ltd

Producer Belinda Dean (creator)
Director Genevieve Bailey
Writer Belinda Dean
Synopsis The Funny Ones introduces four girls with a passion for making people laugh, and connects them with the young stars of Australian comedy; Veronica Milsom and the Skit Box troupe, for performances and behind-the-scenes conversations around being young, female and funny.

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