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Kings in Grass Castles

1998
TV drama
2 x 98mins
Status: Completed

When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853 he was to found a dynasty of pioneers and build an empire of cattle-land across great stretches of Australia. His grand-daughter, Mary Durack, with a profound sense of family history, recreated the saga of the Duracks in her bestseller, KINGS IN GRASS CASTLES.

The Irish Empire

1999
Documentary
5 x 55mins
Status: Completed

Traces the Irish diaspora throughout the world.

Foreign Exchange

2004
TV drama
26 x 30mins
Status: Completed

Tells the story of an Australian boy Brett and an Irish girl Hannah who discover a portal that allows them to travel back and forth between each other's countries and experience life from very different, often awkward but always surprising, perspectives. For both kids it's the adventure of a lifetime - and it happens in their own backyards.

Death or Liberty

2015
Documentary
57mins
Status: Completed

200 years ago the British Government banishes thousands of its political radicals to a prison without walls at the very end of the known world. From England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Canada they are transported in shackles to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land but their acts of protest and rebellion help build one of the most robust democracies of the modern age. Revered in their homelands as heroic martyrs, their convict lives are an amazing untold story – until now.

Drop Dead Weird series 1

2017
TV drama
Online
26 x 24mins
Status: Completed

Lulu, Frankie And Bruce are three Aussie siblings who move with their parents to a B&B in Tubbershandy, an isolated seaside village in western Ireland. Fitting in to a new hometown is hard enough without having to hide a secret so huge as zombie parents! And the methods Lulu, Bruce and Frankie must invent on a daily (even hourly!) basis to keep the truth under wraps are a constant source of adventure and hilarity. For the Champ Clan, life in Tubbershandy can get pretty interesting … and weird…Drop Dead Weird!

Animals

2019
Feature
110mins
Status: Completed

After a decade of partying, Laura and Tyler's friendship is strained by Laura’s new love and her focus on her novel. A snapshot of a modern woman with competing desires, at once a celebration of female friendship and an examination of the choices we make when facing a crossroads.

Escape from Pretoria

2019
Feature
100mins
Status: Completed

Two white South Africans, imprisoned for working on behalf of the ANC, determine to escape from the notorious white man's 'Robben Island', Pretoria Prison.

Drop Dead Weird series 2

2019
TV drama
Online
26 x 24mins
Status: Completed

DROP DEAD WEIRD follows the continued hilarious antics of an Australian family who moved to Tubbershandy, an isolated seaside village in Western Ireland, to save the family B&B from the grasping hands of local identity and school principal Bunni Shanahan who is ready to takeover. With three 'fish-out-of-water' Aussie kids, one kooky Irish grandfather and two recently zombified parents, running a B&B in a remote seaside Irish village, things are going to get weird... DROP DEAD WEIRD!

Shane

2021
Documentary
90mins
Status: Production

A character study on Shane Warne, one of the greatest cricket players the world has ever known, as he travels the world revealing all aspects of his extraordinary life and career.

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