Funding Approvals
IN THE ARCHIVE
2021-2022 TELEVISION development
PREMIUM
FLAMES
Jungle Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Mystery
Writers Marieke Hardy, Celia Pacquola, Nathan Maynard
Producer Fiona McConaghy
Executive Producers Marieke Hardy, Chloe Rickard, Shay Spencer
Synopsis Based on the novel by Robbie Arnott. A young woman with a magical secret flees her cursed family after the death of her mother. In a desperate attempt to bring her home, her unraveling brother hires an eccentric detective to hunt her down.
SPREADSHEET SERIES 2
Northern Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy
Creators Kala Ellis, Darren Ashton
Director Darren Ashton
Writer Kala Ellis
Executive Producer Catherine Nebauer
Synopsis Lauren continues to strive for her right to casual sex whilst juggling an ever increasing list of complications plus a brand new format for her Spreadsheet Version 2.0 (breaking news: it’s now an App). But just when she thinks she’s got it under control, she meets someone she might actually “like”. Uh-oh.
THE ALEX CLAYTON MYSTERIES
Magpie Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Mystery
Writer Giula Sandler
Producers Lois Randall, Rebecca Ingram, Ivy Mak
Synopsis Rebel art dealer Alex Clayton has a strange habit of stumbling upon, and cracking, mysterious art world murders. If only she could solve some of her own life issues!
THE OUTRAGEOUSLY FABULOUS WORLD OF TERRY LOGAN
Tama Films Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Creator/Writer John Davies
Producer Miriam Stein
Synopsis An acerbically astute 14-year-old finds the courage to face up to a world of bullies and oppressors with his very own brand of outrageous fabulousness.
SISTERS
Sweetshop & Green Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Writer Giula Sandler
Producer Gal Greenspan
Executive Producers Ayelet Waldman
Synopsis In a close knit, insular religious community, three sisters discover that each of them was sexually abused by a school staff member. As they fight to bring the accused to court, they must each struggle to reconcile the truth with their families, their community and themselves.
MY BRILLIANT CAREER
Jungle Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Writers Liz Doran, Alice Addison, Larissa Behrendt
Executive Producers Shay Spencer, Chloe Rickard, Liz Doran
Synopsis Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl, must choose between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.
THE LAST GUESTS
Lingo Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller
Writer Giula Sandler
Producer Helen Bowden
Executive Producer Jason Stephens
Synopsis After renting out their vacation home online, faltering newlyweds Cain and Lina undergo a terrifying ordeal that strikes at the heart of their innermost secrets. A piercing dissection of shame, trust and surveillance in our most intimate of spaces. Based on the novel “The Last Guests” by J.P. Pomare.
BRUNY
Film Art Media
Genre Drama, Political Thriller
Lead writer Suzie Miller
Producers Sue Maslin, Charlotte Seymour
Synopsis Bruny is a political thriller/drama about love, loyalty and the new world order.
IMMERSION
I Am That Pty Ltd
Genre Crime, Science Fiction, Neo Noir
Director Garth Davis
Writer Matt Vesely
Producer Samantha Lang
Executive Producers Garth Davis, Emile Sherman
Synopsis When an investigation into his daughter's illness leads to signs of a shadowy government Agency experimenting with the subconscious, a police detective becomes trapped in an immersive reality.
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
See-Saw Films Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller
Writer Andrew Bovell
Producer Emile Sherman, Iain Canning
Executive Producers Liz Watts, Emilie Sherman, Iain Canning, Jan Chapman
Synopsis Interconnected lives are thrown into turmoil when a woman goes missing in mysterious circumstances.
RANK
Wheelhouse Productions
Genre Comedy
Writer Brendan Berne
Producer Matthew Gledhill, Ailish McElmeel
Development Executive Julia Flaster
Synopsis Western diplomats courageously decide to put self-interest before world peace after a dictator with a complex captures a North Korean scientist, looking to go nuclear.
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October 2021 announcement
THE PASTOR’S WIFE
Jungle Entertainment Pty Ltd / About Premium Content
Genre Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Creator/Writer Romina Accurso
Producer Bridget Callow-Wright
Executive Producers Romina Accurso, Shay Spencer, Laurent Boissel
Synopsis An out-of-character snap leads a dutiful pastor's wife to murder. Desperate to evade capture, she sets her faith aside in order to lie, cheat, and manipulate only to discover that an unruly teen has uncovered some pretty damning evidence. Blackmail leads to extortion which leads to an unlikely friendship as together they go down a rabbit-hole of some seriously ungodly behaviour in order to get away with murder.
GENERATE
BARREN BY CHOICE
Nudge Co Studio Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Creator/Director Jo-Anne Brechin
Writers Jo-Anne Brechin, Jo Gowda, Michelle Law, Kirsty Webeck
Producer Janelle Landers
Synopsis Three female friends who are barren by choice try to find love in a land of hot baby mamas and men who yearn to spread their seed, amidst social and cultural pressures and their desperate-to-be-grandma mothers who will do anything to unearth their maternal instincts.
FUTURE GIRL
Orange Entertainment Co
Genre Action adventure, Drama, Romance, YA
Writers Asphyxia, Jane Allen
Producers Asphyxia, Stephanie Westwood
Executive Producers Kurt Royan, Dan Lake
Synopsis In an unstable future where major corporation Organicore mass-produces artificial food for every Australian, a naive Deaf teenage girl discovers a community of rebellious environmentalists and becomes an unlikely leader - despite being the daughter of Organicore’s top scientist.
HOW DID WE F*CK THIS UP?
Linda Chen
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer Linda Chen
Synopsis When Margot, a modern-day, 'hypermarginalised' and deeply malcontent costume designer is thrown into memories of her past life as a suffragette, she must face up to her past to work out why she's been experiencing symptoms of PTSD, and to find out what progress truly means to her in a world that feels stubborn, stuck and often f*cked up.
LUCKY COUNTRY
Naomi Telushkin & Chris Squadrito
Genre Drama, Psychological horror, Romantic comedy
Writers Chris Squadrito, Naomi Telushkin
Synopsis When highly-strung New York advertising executive Emma Izgi returns home to her native Australia for a new job and a new life, she is enchanted by the laidback breeziness of life down under - until she discovers the reality of ‘she’ll be right’ may be far darker than she ever imagined.
SALTY
Orange Entertainment Co
Genre Drama, Horror, Supernatural
Writers Shannan Tamby Lim, Stuart Page, Marisa Nathar
Producers Stephanie Westwood, Dan Lake
Executive Producer Kurt Royan
Synopsis Salty is a supernatural drama about multiple generations of a migrant family in Melbourne, navigating careers, love, life, and their salt importing business, while hiding the fact that they are demonic entities from Malay folklore.
TALES FROM THE CRIPS/THE WHEELHOUSE
A2K Media Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy
Director Colin Cairnes (Tales from the Crips) Jason Marion (The Wheelhouse)
Writers Ade Djajamihardja, Belinda Aitken, Madeleine Stewart, Jason Marion, Sarah Barton, Colin Cairnes (Tales from the Crips), Phineas Meere (Tales from the Crips), Jamie Aditya (The Wheelhouse)
Producers Ade Djajamihardja, Kate Stephens
Synopsis The Wheelhouse is current affairs in high-speed chairs and Tales from the Crips is a freewheeling comedy series destined to disable discrimination!
THE ASTROGIRL COLUMN
Film Camp
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer Alies Sluiter
Producers Philippa Campey, Molly O'Connor
Synopsis A philandering housewife navigates her way from small town obscurity to psychic stardom, leaving a tsunami of emotional debris in her wake.
UNLOVEABLE
Sophie Smyth
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer Sophie Smyth
Synopsis Based on a true story, Sophie, a 20-something almost-not-a-virgin, is dumped on her birthday because of her autism (well, according to her) and flung headfirst into the throes of modern dating in Melbs — and she’ll do ANYTHING to prove that she! is! loveable!! damnit!!!
JOURNEY TO THE STONE COUNTRY
Ambience Entertainment
Genre Drama, Mystery
Writers Katherine Thomson, Chantelle Murray, Wesley Enoch, Isaac Drandic
Producers Michael Boughen, Matthew Street, Daryl Sparkes
Synopsis After her marriage dissolves, Annabelle Beck moves back to her hometown of Townsville, Queensland. She joins her archaeologist friend, Susan, exploring the mining fields of central Queensland and meets up again with a long lost childhood friend Indigenous officer, Bo Rennie. Bo takes Annabelle on his exploration of his traditional lands, the area she left as a young girl, and tells her of the secret "Elder's Playground" deep in the Stone Country. Their professional relationship soon develops into a personal one. But both are historically interconnected in ways they could never imagine, a connection that could rip their relationship apart.
REJECTING ELLE
Confidante Pictures
Writers Lauren Rowe, Mansoor Noor, Steve Anthopoulos
Producer Belinda Dean
Synopsis In this anti inspiration-porn comedy, a young woman with cystic fibrosis faces the wrath of everyone she loves when she impulsively decides to reject lifesaving treatment and face an early death.
SANCTUARY
Mad Dan Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Family
Creator Rowena Mohr
Directors Madeleine Dyer, Rachel Griffiths
Writers Madeleine Dyer, Daniel Mulvihill, Hannah Belanszky, Sam Carroll
Script Producer Sam Carroll
Producers Daniel Mulvihill, Madeleine Dyer, Rowena Mohr
Executive Producer Rachel Griffiths
Synopsis As four orphaned kids fight to save their family’s wildlife park from threatening outside forces, they come to realise that the greatest threats don’t always come from outside their sanctuary.
GIRL, INTERPRETED
NG Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writers Grace Feng Fang Juan, Nikki Tran
Synopsis On an expiring visa, a desperate Chinese graduate picks up easy work as a Mandarin interpreter hoping to stay in Australia, only to find herself ungracefully stomping on cultural landmines and confronting her definition of home and success.
TRIPLE X
Glace Chase
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Writer Glace Chase
Story Consultants Vanessa Alexander, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Davey Thompson
Synopsis Charismatic trans performer Dexie and straight wall-street banker bro Scotty battle the world and themselves in an explosive, sexy & illicit dramedy charting the impossibility of trans love. Based on Glace Chase’s hit play Triple X.
THE INTERLOPER
Luke Ryan
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Ben Chessell
Writer Luke Ryan
Synopsis A downtrodden library clerk trades places with his charismatic doppelgänger, starring in a theatre production that delivers him adulation and a renewed sense of potency, yet confounds his sense of identity and endangers almost all that he has.
WORMIE
Unless Pictures
Genre Comedy, Drama
Creators Beatrix Christian, Meg O'Connell
Writers Meg O’Connell, Beatrix Christian, Boyd Quakawoot, Stuart Page
Development Producer Sanja Simić
Synopsis Una is a scientist. Has never been interested in giving birth. Sure, she’ll study the biology of other animals, but a stranger developing inside her? Nope. That’s a 40 week experiment she’s not keen to run. But then an ill-timed passion brings the experiment to her; a short-term lover gets long-term ideas; and a neighbourhood cat develops troubling symptoms that mirror her own. Now Una is convinced that a deadly parasite is using her to breed.
SILENT RETREAT
Unless Pictures & Audiocraft
Genre Action Adventure, Disaster
Writer/Creator Meg O’Connell
Executive Producer Kate Montague
Development Producer Sanja Simic
Audio Producer Jessica Hamilton
Synopsis The silence at a meditation retreat is interrupted.
PHI AND ME TOO
Northern Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy
Creators Fiona Chau, Diana Nguyen
Writers Diana Nguyen, Chi Nguyen
Script Producer Kelly Lefever
Producers Serena Hunt, Joe Weatherstone
Executive Producer Catherine Nebauer
Synopsis Phi and Me Too is a relationship comedy between a Vietnamese refugee mother Kim Huong and her Australian raised teenage daughter Phi. Kim Huong goes to outrageous lengths to give her daughter a better life, to love her and protect her from the big scary western (suburban) world. A beautiful balance of humour and heart - it’s tough love - The Viet Way!
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October 2021 announcement
BETH (WORKING TITLE)
Whitefalk Films Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Creators Alex White, Eden Falk, Charlie Garber, Lexi Freiman, Yael Stone
Director Eden Falk
Writers Charlie Garber, Lexi Freiman
Producer Alex White
Executive Producers Katja Blichfeld, Ben Sinclair, Russell Gregory
Synopsis BETH is a half hour comedy series that follows Beth, a feisty, freewheeling thirtysomething dog walker just returned to Sydney after ten wild years in New York.
FOURTEEN
Orange Entertainment Co
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
Writer Jane Allen
Producer Dan Lake
Executive Producers Kurt Royan, Jane Allen
Synopsis When the Molloy family are publicly humiliated by their dad walking out on them, all their deeply hidden issues come to light and they have to do the one thing they suck at to get through it - rely on each other. Based on Shannon Molloy’s memoir 'Fourteen: My Year of Darkness and the Light that Followed.’
SHE’S GOT BALLS
Northern Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy
Director Marni Little
Writers Marni Little, Lisa Hughes, Christine Milo
Producers Lisa Hughes, Darren Ashton
Executive Producer Catherine Nebauer
Synopsis She’s Got Balls is a female-centric comedy that follows a social basketball team as they compete in the unnecessarily high stakes world of mixed C-Grade community sport, and attempt to apply the universal lessons of team sport to their dysfunctional personal lives.
TROUBLED YOUTH
Vanessa Bates
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writers Vanessa Bates, Ross Mueller
Synopsis three suburban middle-aged women reform their teenage rock band, Troubled Youth, to rage against the dying of the light.