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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.

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!

The Surfer

2025
Feature
100mins
Status: Completed

When a man returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the US, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a group of local surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he defies them and remains at the beach, demanding acceptance. As the conflict escalates, he is brought right to the edge of his sanity and his entire identity is thrown into question.

Chasing Millions

2025
Feature
100mins
Status: Production

Belfast 2004. Northern Ireland has been at peace for six years, but old enmities, and mistrust remain. CHASING MILLIONS tells the story of the biggest bank heist in Irish, British (and Australian) history making reluctant partners of ambitious Australian police officer, Diana, with gruff, veteran Northern Irish detective, Crawford, as they investigate and seek to solve the crime while navigating their way through the minefield of a fragile peace.

Mix Tape

2025
TV drama
Online
4 x 47mins
Status: Completed

1989 Sheffield - Daniel and Alison fall in love against a backdrop of music, family anguish, poverty and changing times. Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape they thought they would be together forever, so why did Alison run away? 20 years later, Daniel remains in Sheffield living a stable, predictable life; Alison a seemingly perfect life in sun-soaked Sydney. When Daniel follows Alison on Twitter, they reconnect to their past by sending each other songs. So begins a new mix tape. They have spouses and families of their own now, but they’re not really breaking any rules, are they? Until one of them does something that will change everything…

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