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After Six Four
- 2014
- Documentary
- Online
- 30mins
- Status: Completed
AFTER SIX FOUR is a multi-narrative online documentary, which is a personal exploration of how the Tiananmen Square movement of 1989 has changed China and rippled across time and space to shape the lives of ordinary contemporary Chinese-Australians.
Bush Slam
- 2009
- Documentary
- 6 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
BUSH SLAM brings together Australia’s top poets, songwriters and comedians in a performance best described as a poetry brawl. Two poets, one town, capturing the heartbeat of the nation in verse.
Honey We're Killing the Kids
- 2006
- Documentary
- 6 x 46mins
- Status: Completed
HONEY WE'RE KILLING THE KIDS is an observational reality series aimed at identifying ways in which parents may improve the dietary and lifestyle habits of their children. It provides an opportunity for parents to fast forward into their children's future and actually come face to face with them in middle age. For many, the rosy future they had pictured for their children doesn't match the image before their eyes. Presented by a child psychologist, HONEY WE'RE KILLING THE KIDS will take six families and predict their children's lives to the age of 40.
Micro Nation
- 2012
- TV drama
- Online
- 15 x 5mins
- Status: Completed
The forgotten island nation of Pullamawang has seceded from mainland Australia and is home to a cast of larger-than-life characters including young citizen Emma who desperately wants to leave. The absurd habits and comfortable lives of the islanders are thrown into disarray and conflict by the discovery of diamonds, thwarting Emma’s dreams of escaping to the wider world.
Missing Persons Unit
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2006 - 2009
- Documentary
- 49 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
MISSING PERSONS UNIT explores the emotionally charged world of the New South Wales Missing Persons Unit (MPU). Unfolding over months of dramatic filming, our cameras record the real-time detective work of the MPU as they search for missing people. In each episode, this unique insight into the MPU and its field plays out against the intimate pleas for help from the devastated families of missing people. (Series 1 also available, 11 x 30 minute.)
Missing Persons Unit series 1
- 2006
- Documentary
- 11 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
MISSING PERSONS UNIT, a new 8 part series premiering on Channel 9, explores the emotionally charged world of the New South Wales Missing Persons Unit (MPU). Unfolding over months of dramatic filming, our cameras record the real time detective work of the MPU as they search for missing people. In each episode, this unique insight into the MPU and its field and forensics investigators plays out against the intimate pleas for help from the devastated families of missing people.
Missing Persons Unit series 2
- 2007
- Documentary
- 12 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
MISSING PERSONS UNIT, a new 8 part series premiering on Channel 9, explores the emotionally charged world of the New South Wales Missing Persons Unit (MPU). Unfolding over months of dramatic filming, our cameras record the real time detective work of the MPU as they search for missing people. In each episode, this unique insight into the MPU and its field and forensics investigators plays out against the intimate pleas for help from the devastated families of missing people.
Missing Persons Unit series 3
- 2007
- Documentary
- 10 x 44mins
- Status: Completed
Every 18 minutes someone is reported missing, this is the story of the men and women of the police force who find these people.
Missing Persons Unit series 4
- 2008
- Documentary
- 9 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
MISSING PERSONS UNIT explores the emotionally charged world of the New South Wales Missing Persons Unit (MPU). Unfolding over months of dramatic filming, our cameras record the real time detective work of the MPU as they search for missing people. In each episode, this unique insight into the MPU and its field and forensics investigators plays out against the intimate pleas for help from the devastated families of missing people.
Missing Persons Unit series 5
- 2009
- Documentary
- 7 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
MISSING PERSONS UNIT explores the emotionally charged world of the New South Wales Missing Persons Unit (MPU). Unfolding over months of dramatic filming, our cameras record the real time detective work of the MPU as they search for missing people. In each episode, this unique insight into the MPU and its field and forensics investigators plays out against the intimate pleas for help from the devastated families of missing people.
Monster Croc Wrangler
- 2019
- Documentary
- 8 x 43mins
- Status: Completed
Set in the dramatic scenery of Australia’s Northern Territory, animal expert and professional chopper pilot Matt Wright, along with his best mates Jono and Willow, track down a diverse range of dangerous animals with the aim of relocating and preserving the magnificent predators.
The Nest
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2008 - 2009
- Documentary
- 10 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
THE NEST follows three very different Australian families as they participate in a social experiment to find out how prepared (or unprepared!) they are for living sustainable, independent lives.
The Nest series 1
- 2008
- Documentary
- 6 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
THE NEST follows three very different Australian families as they participate in a social experiment, to find out how prepared (or unprepared!) They are for living sustainable, independent lives.
The Nest series 2
- 2009
- Documentary
- 5 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
THE NEST follows three very different Australian families as they participate in a social experiment, to find out how prepared (or unprepared!) They are for living sustainable, independent lives.
Outback Wildlife Rescue
- 2008
- Documentary
- 13 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
Sometimes nature needs a helping hand. OUTBACK WILDLIFE RESCUE tells the incredible stories of everyday heroes bound by a single mission: to save wildlife, anywhere, anytime. From the tropical Queensland coast to monsoonal Darwin, to the red deserts of Alice Springs and beyond, OUTBACK WILDLIFE RESCUE hosted by Ernie Dingo features breathtaking scenery, colourful characters, dramatic rescues, thrilling crocodile patrols and heartfelt emotion as animals are saved and returned to the wild.
Outback Wrangler
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2011 - 2019
- Documentary
- 20 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
Australia's Northern Territory wetlands are home to one of the largest crocs on earth, saltwater crocodiles. From November to March, these crocs lay their eggs. Matt Wright and his mates have just three months to collect 20,000 crocodile eggs. It's a job that gives value to the crocs so that locals don't want to kill or cull them. Using commando-like precision, Matt and his egg collecting team - Mick "the Professor" Burns, Craig Moore, and his trusty pilot, Mick Burbidge, will descend onto the most dangerous of all places in croc territory - the mother croc's nest.
Outback Wrangler series 1
- 2011
- Documentary
- 4 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
Welcome to the extraordinary every day life of dangerous animal expert, Matt Wright. Matt uses his unique skills and perspective to solve problems with animals that no one else can. Fusing blue chip with ob-doc and wildlife adventure, IN THE WILD will follow Matt as he finds, captures and safely relocates some of the world’s most fascinating and dangerous animals with the simple objective of keeping us humans safe from them and just as importantly - keeping them safe from us.
Penelope K By the Way
- 2010
- TV drama
- 25 x 12mins
- Status: Completed
Penelope K would happily help any child to answer their– if only she had a clue. Penelope K runs the Information Station, a place that contains all the answers to any question a child might have. While Penelope K knows she once knew the answer to a question, when asked it invariably vapourises like a dream. In every episode the child helps the confuddled Penelope K to sort out the facts and discover the answer.

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