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4 on the Floor - Hear No Evil
- 1997
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
HEAR NO EVIL is a documentary that tells the story of 'Catwitch', a Gothic heavy-metal band, battling to bust out of unemployment and poverty. It revolves around the trials and tribulations of its new manager, the impact of some newly arrived band members, and the behind-the-scenes antics of family and friends.
Alter Ego
- 2008
- Documentary
- Animation
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
A challenged muso takes his music out to the world, a wolf-man finds his pack, a 42-year-old woman lives her life as a child, a mother of three makes a new perfect virtual family and a grandma becomes a supermodel. What sort of world is this? As the popularity of virtual worlds explode ALTER EGO weaves in and out of both the real and virtual lives of a cast of fascinating characters in the virtual world of Second Life - a world that gives people a platform to explore their darkest desires.
Australia On Trial
- 2011
- Documentary
- 3 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
AUSTRALIAN ON TRIAL is a thought-provoking series that provides snapshots of colonial Australia through the prism of three pivotal and controversial criminal trials. At stake were not just the lives of the defendants, but the very identity of Australia. Combining courtroom drama with stylised flashbacks, the series provides a unique take on how Australia’s national identity evolved – and how the moral, social and political questions raised by these three trials still resonate in the present day. The three trials featured are The Eureka 13 Trial (1855), The Mount Rennie Rape Trial (1886) and The Myall Creek Massacre Trial (1838).
Auto Stories
- 1999
- Documentary
- 4 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
A character-driven series which explores themes of vanity, responsibility, deception, pride, obsession and love through our relationship to the car. In Australia there is a car for nearly every man, woman and child, causing traffic congestion, accidents and environmental nightmares. No one is immune from the pleasures and dangers of the car. Every one has an auto story to tell.
Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery
- 2007
- Documentary
- 4 x 53mins
- Status: Completed
High adventure, triumph and tragedy as we journey around the world in the wake of one of the greatest explorers of all time - James Cook.
Carbon Cops
- 2007
- Documentary
- 6 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
CARBON COPS is a hybrid series that blends science, the environment and observational documentary - tackling what we can all practically do about global warming. In each episode, the Carbon Cops lead a household through a step-by-step process that demonstrates how their current use of energy is contributing to global warming, and what changes they can make to end their wasting ways.
Catching Cancer
- 2009
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
We set off in global pursuit of cancer, not just any cancer, but the infectious kind. It's an epic investigation across for continents and 150 million years. There's a classic mystery to be solved, a strange cluster of disease that defies all odds. There are surprising facts and shocking truths… one in three of us will get cancer - we show you how to stack the odds in your favour. And ultimately, armed with new understanding, we reveal that infectious cancers are not bad news but a cause for hope.
Chris Humfrey's Wild Life
- 2011
- Documentary
- 13 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
Meet Chris Humfrey, he’s a zoologist who lives with his family and share their home with other pets – around 2000 of them in fact! This isn’t your average family home; it’s a private zoo where human and animal sagas unfold daily. Each week Chris will share with us this extraordinary life and his amazing knowledge of Australia’s fauna. Follow Chris in this chaotic, animal-crazy series that captures the drama, the journeys, and the sheer exhilaration of CHRIS HUMFREY'S WILD LIFE.
The Extraordinary Tale of William Buckley
- 2009
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
On a stifling hot Christmas Eve in 1803 William Buckley, an English 23-year-old court-martialled soldier, transported to Australia on Victoria's first fleet, escaped the doomed settlement of Sorrento in Port Phillip. Buckley exhausted and near death, took a spear from an Aboriginal grave to help him walk - the luckiest decision he ever made in his life. Thirty-two years later at 2pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambles into the camp recently established by John Batman at Indented Head near Geelong. This is his story.
Family Footsteps
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2008 - 2008
- Documentary
- 8 x 55mins
- Status: Completed
FAMILY FOOTSTEPS is an immersive documentary series which provides a 'sliding doors' experience for Australians to live the life they might have lived, had their parents or grandparents not immigrated to Australia.
Family Footsteps series 2
- 2008
- Documentary
- 4 x 55mins
- Status: Completed
FAMILY FOOTSTEPS is an immersive documentary series which provides a 'sliding doors' experience for Australians to live the life they might have lived, had their parents or grandparents not immigrated to Australia.
For the Defence
- 1998
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
FOR THE DEFENCE explores the Victorian criminal justice system via the experiences of three criminal defence lawyers. Two barristers and one solicitor, their case load covers everything from unpaid parking fines to murder and rape. Their journey takes us from interview room to supreme court, and into their own lives as they strive to maintain the principles of the right to defence and the presumption of innocence in an increasingly pressurised legal system.
Grey Nomads
- 1997
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
This is a documentary about the caravan's of older, retired Australians who move about the country in search of experience and new life.
Grey Voyagers
- 2000
- Documentary
- 6 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
GREY VOYAGERS follows six highly motivated older travellers on unique odysseys to parts of the world of special significance to them.
The Hillmen - A Soccer Fable
- 1996
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
Follows the adventures of a Greek junior soccer club in Melbourne which has opened its doors to kids of all cultural backgrounds, among them Vietnamese. In accompanying Clifton Hill United through its winter campaign we meet the adolescent youngsters who dream of heroism but must often cope with failure.
The Hit Game
- 2005
- Documentary
- 4 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
'The Hit Game' is a four-part series that intimately reveals the journey of four very different aspiring recording artists as they try to achieve stardom. The artists and their producer, Bazz Palmer, take the audience into the back rooms and boardrooms of the music industry.
Hollywood Hotel
- 1995
- Documentary
- 32mins
- Status: Completed
A documentary that offers an insight into the lives of the residents who call Hollywood Hotel home. Once a silver service establishment, Hollywood Hotel has approximately 70 residents, most of whom receive some form of government support. Gone are the waiters and silver service. In place is a strong sense of community complete with the constant struggle for survival. These are people living on the fringe of society - the elderly, the unemployed, the de-institutionalised - who rely heavily on their fortnightly pension. The film focuses on the lives of four individuals set against the backdrop of pre-pension and pension day.
Hospital - An Unhealthy Business
- 1997
- Documentary
- 57mins
- Status: Completed
HOSPITAL - AN UNHEALTHY BUSINESS is the story of an institution challenged to reconcile its mission to serve the public with the economic reality of limited finance. This documentary examines the inner sanctums of an institution wrestling with key survival issues at a time of profound change. HOSPITAL - AN UNHEALTHY BUSINESS weaves together the stories of financial administrators, doctors and nurses as they struggle to find ways to deliver more with less.
Immortal
- 2010
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
Astonishingly, science has uncovered the key to unlimited life - and a secret of endless youth. Deep in the DNA of a humble pond creature an Australian-born scientist co-discovered an ‘immortalising’ enzyme, a chemical catalyst that can keep cells young, forever. In 2009 this discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. But, this is no simple ‘cure’ for ageing. For the same enzyme that fuels endless youth, also fuels cancer. IMMORTAL reveals the inner workings of this biological paradox and its remarkable impact on ageing, stress, disease and cancer.
Li'l Horrors
- 2001
- TV drama
- 52 x 11mins
- Status: Completed
A 52 part live action puppet series set in a spooky Gothic school run by a retired movie actress. It features the (mis)adventures of a group of children who just happen to be rather familiar monsters as well.
Li'l Monsters
- 1997
- TV drama
- Animation
- 4 x 12mins
- Status: Completed
LI'L MONSTERS is a four-part pilot for a new children's live action puppet series. Set in a spooky Gothic school run by a retired horror movie actress the series will feature the antics and adventures of a group of children of classic monsters.
Mama Tina
- 1998
- Documentary
- 53mins
- Status: Completed
MAMA TINA looks at the life of Irish woman, Christina Noble who overcame a lifetime of neglect and violence to become a champion of the street children of Ho Chi Minh City.
Out of the Ashes
- 2010
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
The devastation of the Victorian bushfires in February 2009 made headlines around the world. A world previously occupied by koalas in the tree tops, wombats in their burrows below, and dancing lyrebirds mimicking the sounds of the forests. Our strategically located, satellite controlled time lapse cameras, will not only serve to visually enhance the production but for the first time record how the flora and fauna of these forests deals with such adversity.
Revealing Gallipoli
- 2005
- Documentary
- 2 x 52mins
- Status: Completed
REVEALING GALLIPOLI goes beyond the usual view that somehow Gallipoli is solely an ANZAC story. It will not only tell stories of the Australian soldiers but stories from the Turkish, French, English, Irish, Welsh, Indian and New Zealanders. This account will reveal the Gallipoli campaign as even more extraordinary and tragic when not seen through the myopic prism of nationalism.
Valentine's Day
- 2007
- TV drama
- 98mins
- Status: Completed
In the mould of The Full Monty and Brassed Off, VALENTINE'S DAY is a tale of hope and redemption. Ben Valentine (Rhys Muldoon) has totally lost his way in the world when he finds himself in a strange country town. With a sentence of 200 hours of community service, Valentine must coach the town's 'no-hoper' football team, who are teetering on the brink of demise. If the team don't win three out of the next four games, they'll be merged with their arch rivals and the town will also lose its precious pie factory. Valentine is embraced, heart and soul by the townsfolk. This one-time drifter learns how to live and hope again - and so does the town.
What's So Funny?
- 1994
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
Vietnamese stand-up comic Hung Le is one of the ethnic comedians profiled in this look at 'wog' humour as a reflection of today's multicultural Australia. There will be jokes that make you laugh and jokes that make you squirm.

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