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2012 features summary

MAY 2012

BANJO & MATILDA
Genre Action Romance
Producer Bill Leimbach
Writer David Roach
Director Bruce Beresford
Synopsis It’s 1895 in Central Queensland and, with the country in turmoil, a young city poet and journalist travels to a remote sheep station to track down a political agitator. When the clashes between union shearers and landowners turn to violence, a man is found dead in a billabong. Was it suicide or murder? Based on the extraordinary true story of Banjo Paterson, Samuel Hoffmeister and Waltzing Matilda.

CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS
Genre Drama
Producer Marian Macgowan
Executive Producer Jason Stephens
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.

CHRONICAL
Genre Science Fiction
Producer Lisa Shaunessy
Executive Producer Michael Rymer
Co-producer James Whitlam
Writer/Director Seth Larney
Synopsis The son of a scientist is called to the future to solve the world’s oxygen crisis and save the woman he loves.

DISQUIET
Genre Psychological Horror
Writer/Director Julia Leigh
Synopsis A haunting tale of a family in extremis, based on her own novel.

THE GLASS BLOWER
Genre Drama
Producer Paul Sullivan
Writer/Director Denie Pentecost
Synopsis Twenty-year-old Nicole is a cleaner at a prestigious art college but dreams of becoming a glass blower. When a new teacher, Kiera, discovers her talent Nicole accepts her help and they form an unconventional relationship leading Nicole to a buried secret that has been kept from her since she was a child.

JOE CINQUE’S CONSOLATION
Genre Crime Drama
Producer Sue Murray
Writers Matt Rubinstein, Sotiris Dounoukos
Director Sotiris Dounoukos
Synopsis In early 1997, Anu Singh, a young law student at the Australian National University, began to tell many people she was planning to kill herself. As her mental and emotional state disintegrated, her plans grew more bizarre and macabre, concerning her boyfriend Joe Cinque. In October she knocked Joe out with Rohypnol and then injected him with a lethal dose of heroin. Nobody tried to stop her.

KOALA BLUE
Genre Comedy
Writer Duncan Kennedy

NIM’S ISLAND: THE RETURN OF THE PIRATES
Genre Family
Producers Chris Brown, Tom Hoffie
Writer Ray Boseley
Director Brendan Maher
Synopsis A sequel to the hugely popular family film Nim’s Island.

THE POST OFFICE
Genre Romantic Comedy
Producers Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford
Writers Emma Vuletic, Justine Flynn

SYNCHRONICITY
Genre Musical
Producers Leesa Kahn, Catriona Hughes
Executive Producer Greg Coote
Writer Marissa Goodhill
Director Kriv Stenders
Synopsis Set to the hit music of pop star Kylie Minogue, this musical spectacular follows 17-year-old Kylie Power, who, upon moving to her father’s hometown of Sydney, is given one last chance to pursue her dream of becoming a synchronised swimming champion.

UNTITLED AUSTRALIAN PROJECT
Genre Black Comedy
Producer Matthew Reeder
Executive Producer Greg McLean
Writer/Director Abe Forsythe
Synopsis A dark comedy about racism set during the Cronulla riots.

UNTITLED LUCKY PROJECT
Genre Drama
Producer Nash Edgerton
Writers Nash Edgerton, Joel Edgerton
Director Nash Edgerton

 

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