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Steve Irwin's Ghosts of War

2001
Documentary
2 x 50mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin's grandfather and great-grandfather were both killed in World War II’s Pacific Theatre. Steve's father-in-law, Clarence Raines, served in the Pacific on the USS Boise through numerous naval battles. The tragedy and triumph of this shared history has linked Steve’s family heritage to the historic events that shaped the world over 60 years ago. In this epic two-part mini-series, Steve revisits some of the notorious and legendary battle grounds of the Pacific conflict between the Allied forces and Japan.

Mungindi with Steve Ellis

2013
Documentary
15mins
Status: Completed

Proud Goomeroi Man grew up in Mungindi moved away at a young age. Loves going back home connecting to the land and being around family. Enjoys Didgeridoo & boomerang making, fishing and walking in the scrub.

Capturing Cricket: Steve Waugh in India

2020
Documentary
57mins
Status: Completed

Steve Waugh, the mastermind behind Australia's golden age of cricket dominance, takes us on a road trip through India, exploring the country's rich diversity of cultures and searching for the true spirit of cricket.

Steve the Queen

2024
Short film
8mins
Status: Completed

Seasoned drag queen, Steve the Queen, is preoccupied with hosting duties at drag bingo and misses his son Davey's all-important apprenticeship meeting. Steve fails to smooth things over and is forced to confront the reality of his shitty parenting. When Davey makes an incredible peace offering, Steve takes his first steps, kicking and screaming, toward better parenting.

Not Without Risk

1981
Documentary
51mins
Status: Completed

Safety has always been of paramount importance in the airline industry, and in the era of wide-bodied jets which are capable of carrying hundreds of passengers, new safety techniques have had to be developed. This program examines the crash monitoring programs run by the US Federal Aviation Agency and Transport Australia. The program looks at fire hazard reduction techniques, new electronic landing systems, and recent crashes.

Man Without Pigs

1991
Documentary
90mins
Status: Completed

In the virgin rainforests of northern Papua New Guinea, wealth is measured by the number of pigs a man owns. The story of a man without pigs. (90 min and 50 min)

Animals Without Backbone

1990
Short film
Experimental
6mins
Status: Completed

'...Given the inherent excitement of the subject, there is no excuse for an introductory biology course to be dull...' 'Animals Without Backbones', the miraculous, mysterious monsters of biological marvel.

Passport Without a Country

1992
Documentary
47mins
Status: Completed

PASSPORT WITHOUT A COUNTRY is about the hearing children of deaf parents and the common experiences they share in growing up in the deaf community amid the hostilities and prejudice of the 'hearing world'. The video provides a glimpse into the private and working lives of seven CODAS (Children Of Deaf Adults) as they search for acceptance.

Without Consent

1992
Documentary
2 x 90mins
Status: Completed

A two part documentary that looks at the impact of sexual violence on the lives of Australian victims and, through the eyes of rapists and other offenders, tries to gain an insight into why it happens. Part One, 'Every Woman's Fear' explores the impact of sexual violence on victim's lives. Part Two, 'The Dark Side' attempts to understand why the incidence of sexual crime is so high in this country.

Without Choice

1994
Documentary
55mins
Status: Completed

A brilliant exposé of a history of people in conflict in a third world country. The strengths of the people and personal consequences of a land in civil war are revealed. Shot over a three year period, WITHOUT CHOICE traces the more recent history of Burma, a country which has suffered 45 years of civil war. Through interviews with guerrilla generals and elected politicians, refugees and remote villagers, the plight of Burma is revealed.

Without Consent

1995
TV drama
100mins
Status: Completed

When a series of rapes occur all fingers point to one of Jane Halifax's patients. This can't be as Jane is his alibi. But why are the rapes exact reenactments of this patient's past attacks?

Words Without Music

1995
TV drama
94mins
Status: Completed

Jane Halifax, forensic psychiatrist, aids in the grief counselling of pupils at Blenheim House, a prestigious boys' school, after the death of a teacher. When a pupil is murdered, Jane suspects that the deaths are related.

Without Direction

1995
Short film
Experimental
9mins
Status: Completed

A young girl will do anything to gain notoriety as an actress in the theatre.

10 Days Without You

1996
Short film
Experimental
7mins
Status: Completed

A woman loves a man: passion and unfulfilled desire. Will time wait for their hearts and souls to unite? Or, are dreams and memories all that can remain?

Without Warning

1997
TV drama
93mins
Status: Completed

It was an ordinary day when successful film producer, Megan Turner, and her director husband, David, were flagged down by a goodlooking highway patrol officer who seemed friendly. WITHOUT WARNING is the story of sexual pursuit and intimidation that almost destroys the Turner's marriage and, in the end, leads to violence and murder.

Without a Sound

1998
Short film
22mins
Status: Completed

Thomas is an insurance investigator. He is called to a small town to investigate an arson in which an unknown five-year-old boy was found burnt to death. Meanwhile, he is awaiting a call from his unfaithful wife, a call that will confirm whether or not she will leave him. As Thomas delves deeper into the case, he unwittingly finds his emotions catching up with him. When he wakes up to find he has mysteriously lost his voice, he is forced to solve everything... without a sound.

Zambezi - Flood without End

1999
Documentary
44mins
Status: Completed

The damming of the Zambezi at the Kariba Gorge and the subsequent flooding of the Gwembe Valley had an extraordinary impact on this wild and remote region. Set against the stunning backdrop of Lake Kariba. ZAMBEZI - FLOOD WITHOUT END captures rare images of the enormous rescue efforts to save thousands of animals from drowning and traces the unique events which have occurred and are still unfolding in this region.

Play Without Words

2003
Short film
Animation
3mins
Status: Completed

PLAY WITHOUT WORDS is dedicated to the memory of Sergey Prokofiev in the year of the 50th anniversary of his death (2003). Excerpts from Prokofiev's famous ballet-music Cinderella are brilliantly interpreted to accompany the protagonist in his humorous attempts to reach his ideals, while the film combines the elements of pantomime, ballet Charlie Chaplin's comic cinema, and Samuel Beckett's theatre of the absurd.

Minister without Money

2005
Documentary
28mins
Status: Completed

In the cut-throat world of tribal politics, a bitter and betrayed politician fights to expose an election scandal…In 2002 Papua New Guinea held one of it’s controversial and violent elections since gaining Independence in 1975. Dr John Waiko lost his electoral seat and his coastal Papuan supporters believe their election was tainted by illegal voting, bribery and voter harassment. MINISTER WITHOUT MONEY offers a rare insight into the explosive tribal hostilities and high stakes of election time in a Melanesian culture striving to balance traditional values with western democratic principles.

Without A Home

2006
Documentary
38mins
Status: Completed

Over the past two decades, homelessness has become a highly visible problem in Australia, a social blight that is in sharp contrast to the country's widespread affluence. In this program five people from Adelaide share their personal stories and offer some insight into the plight of the homeless.

Without Permission

2006
Documentary
4mins
Status: Completed

As the caretaker of sacred lands, a Ngarrindjeri elder fulfils his cultural obligation to expose the truth about stolen Aboriginal remains.

Lost Without You

2006
Documentary
5mins
Status: Completed

Becky, Brittany and Laura are barely in their teens but already mobile phones are as natural a part of their lives as they are a necessity. They use them to flirt, gossip, hate and share their innermost dreams and fears. By their own admission, they'd be lost without them.

My Year Without Sex

2009
Feature
96mins
Status: Completed

One family. One year. No sex. What else is there? Try shopping, singing, sport, storage solutions, Santa, the stock market, spiritual stuff... A wry look at twelve months - from the award-winning writer-director of LOOK BOTH WAYS, Sarah Watt.

Art Without Borders

2013
Documentary
43mins
Status: Completed

Every three years the gallery of modern art or GOMA holds one of the most unique art exhibitions in the world. Showcasing contemporary art from Asia and the Pacific the APT is ambitious and complex. This year we took cameras behind the scenes to see just how many people are needed to pull it off.

Without Consent

2017
Documentary
Experimental
14mins
Status: Completed

Without Consent weaves a young woman's personal account of forced adoption in Australia in the late 1960s. It recounts the legal climate that outcast young unmarried women who were pregnant during these years, the systemized abuse they endured in the name of God as well as the stories they hid.

Song Without Words

2022
Feature
84mins
Status: Completed

Some robots are more real than others.

With or Without You

2025
Feature
114mins
Status: Completed

A daughter, a mother, and a stranger from another land are thrown together on an unexpected road trip.

A Slice of Life

1982
Feature
90mins
Status: Completed

A young man is accidentally given a vasectomy which turns out to be ineffective. He unknowingly fathers seven babies.

For The Term of His Natural Life

1983
TV drama
6 x 60mins
Status: Completed

Based on Marcus Clark's novel about convict life in the early years of white settlement in Australia.

Pintubi, The Life and Fate of a People

1983
Documentary
4 x 25mins
Status: Completed

In 1932, a small group of Pintubi began the long walk East. Unknowingly, they were walking into a strange land which would forever change their lives.

Where There's Life

1984
Documentary
29mins
Status: Completed

Inside the maximum security wing of Victoria's Pentridge Prison. The program features interviews with three prisoners serving life sentences for murder, and looks at the psychological effects on those who have no hope for the future.

Half Life

1986
Documentary
86mins
Status: Completed

With terrifying calm this film examines the facts leading up to the 'Bravo' nuclear test in 1954, when in the name of 'national security' the United States government irreversibly destroyed the fragile world of the Marshall Islanders for countless generations to come. Piece by piece the role of the United States government is uncovered and we discover the deliberate decisions that were made to allow these gentle and trusting people to be expoesed to radioactivity and then used as 'guinea pigs' to test the short and long term effects of nuclear fallout. with cold fard facts HALF-LIFE contructs an account which is far more horrifying than any dramatisation and whose truth haunts our past, present and future.

Real Life

1987
Documentary
7 x 75mins
Status: Completed

What is it really like to be a compulsive pursuer of women, a wealthy surgeon or a novice running for parliament? Drawing on the technique of 'direct cinema', which gives the camera privileged 'fly on the wall' access to the subject, this series presents the daily minutiae that shape human personalities and reveals very immediate situations that are unfamiliar to public audiences.

Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh

1987
Documentary
99mins
Status: Completed

Told in Vincent's letters to his brother, this film explores the places and people who shaped Van Gogh's career.

A Dangerous Life

1988
TV drama
3 x 120mins
Status: Completed

The story of the fall of the Marcos regime in the Philippines.

A Little Life

1989
Documentary
50mins
Status: Completed

A LITTLE LIFE explores the life and death of Ricci Vicenti, a 19-year-old Aboriginal youth who was shot while trying to escape from Canning Vale Remand Centre in Perth. He had been arrested for attempting to steal $75 worth of groceries to feed his wife and baby. Ricci Vicenti lived a remarkable life. This film creates a moving portrait of one individual life behind the stark statistical of Aboriginal deaths in custody.

A Surfer For Life

1988
Documentary
26mins
Status: Completed

A look at three 40-year-old men who still surf and satisfy their spiritual connection with the sea in Western Australia.

A Day in the Life of a Child: Children of Bali

1989
Documentary
27mins
Status: Completed

CHILDREN OF BALI revolves around a 12-year-old Balinese girl, Wayan (the eldest) and her family. We see what she does during the day as well as getting a sense of how children live in Bali. She has a number of duties including preparing the family's breakfast, going to the market, making the little offerings to be left out to the gods, washing clothes in the creek, sweeping the compound. All these things are done with siblings and friends making it a time of laughter and fun. The whole village becomes involved with a visit to the traditional medicine man and out to the rice paddies where the children play, knee deep in mud. The children prepare the school yard for the festival celebrating Saraswati - the goddess of knowledge. Prayers and ceremonial activities are rounded off with a cleansing dip in the river - but that too becomes an exuberant expression of the Balinese spirit and sense of fun.

Life on Earth as I Know It

1991
Short film
8mins
Status: Completed

Lois is depressed about the world. In a fit of despair she moves to the cockroach-ridden claustrophobia of Newtown. Then she meets Kate. LIFE ON EARTH AS I KNOW IT is an imaginative story about the four-letter word – love.

Life In Broome With Malcolm Douglas

1989
Documentary
47mins
Status: Completed

Malcolm lives part of the year at his crocodile farm in the north west. He takes the viewer to his favourite places aroung historic Broome and along the wild and lonely coast.

Catalyst: The Language of Life Genetics

1990
Documentary
6 x 30mins
Status: Completed

A TV series for teenagers about science and technology. It combines comedy sketches and rock clips with stories about communications, the Earth, forces, motion, energy and genetics. The series is presented by rock singer and actor, Kaarin Fairfax and features the talents of comic stars, Peter Rowsthorn and Mandy Salomon.

A Day in the Life of a Woman

1990
Documentary
6 x 30mins
Status: Completed

One of a six-part series looking at the life of women, produced by members of the Asian Broadcasting Union. This episode shows women living in the Australian Outback. Robyn and Kevin Ingram are sheep farmers who lead a self- sufficient lifestyle. Robyn combines the roles of farmer, wife, butcher, cook and hostess. Other episodes were produced in Japan, Bangladesh, Korea, Macau and Sri Lanka.

For a Better Life

1990
Short film
13mins
Status: Completed

A middle-aged migrant receives news from his past home and begins to realize the sacrifices he has made in moving to a new country.

Stan and George's New Life

1992
Feature
102mins
Status: Completed

Forty-year-old Stan still lives at home with his Mum and Dad and works in his Dad's barber shop. As with many 40-year-old males, Stan decides he needs a change of life - he is manipulated into taking a job at the weather bureau where he meets George and falls in love. Underlying this tender romance is an unusual conspiracy which Stan and George uncover together.

Worst Day Of My Life

1991
TV drama
6 x 30mins
Status: Completed

Humourous anthology series for eight to 14-year-olds featuring a central character experiencing the worst day of their life.

The Life and Death of Sandy Stone

1991
TV drama
4 x 30mins
Status: Completed

Sandy Stone muses on his life in Glen Iris in a collection of witty and touching monologues.

The Time Of Your Life

1991
Documentary
80mins
Status: Completed

Another powerful social documentary from David Goldie, producer of NOBODY'S CHILDREN and OUT OF SIGHT OF MIND. This time the focus is on the elderly, and the program looks at what it is like to grow old in Australia, through the experiences of old people themselves. The program examines our needs and fears as we age, and raises questions about the way we care for those of our elderly who are frail and in need of help - particularly in the areas of health and accommodation. Although the program is sometimes confronting, it also shows the strength, dignity and courage of older people, and their potential to live full and purposeful lives. As well as the elderly subjects, others taking part in the program are police officers John Boyling and Bob Pinfold of the New South Wales force and Helen Adams of the Victorian Police; author Leila Friedman; geriatricians Sue Kurrle, Tony Broe and Doctor John Ward; Cherry Russell, senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales; Edith Morgan of the Older Persons Action Centre; sex educator Doctor Rosie King; Margaret Somerville, director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law; Peter Dunn, lecturer at Charles Sturt University; and cardiothoracic surgeon Brian McCaughan.

Life at the Top

1991
Documentary
12mins
Status: Completed

Radiating from a dreary housing estate come the personalities of colourful individuals that have made their own worlds from a potentially depressing situation of high-rise living.

An Anchor Into Life

1992
Documentary
8mins
Status: Completed

Kevin can use his skills with the Handspan Theatre Company when given a chance to do so despite his schizophrenia. It gives him an 'anchor' into life by giving him status and satisfaction. His work colleagues learn to appreciate his skills and qualities and to separate the person from the illness.

Life at Little Lon

1992
Documentary
26mins
Status: Completed

The film is about digging the dirt both literally and figuratively. The area around Little Lonsdale Street (known as 'Little Lon') was notorious for almost a century as Melbourne's red light district. It was also home to thousands of poor working people and to successive groups of migrants from many backgrounds. The film draws on a variety of archival images to illustrate the history of the site as well as contributions made by archaelogists, historians and volunteers working on the site.

Songs Of Innocence: A Child's View of Family Life

1992
Documentary
Animation
55mins
Status: Completed

An exploration of the thoughts of children concerning the diverse family situations in which they find themselves.

Shelf Life

1992
Short film
Animation
15mins
Status: Completed

SHELF LIFE is an affectionate look at George Akindoni, the proprietor of an old style corner grocery store - a species whose use-by date has arrived. It follows George through the course of what starts out as a normal day, as he tries to understand the changes to his world and comes to the final realisation that everything has an expiry date.

Life at O'Malley's

1992
Documentary
30mins
Status: Completed

At a time when massive unemployment leaves young people stranded in life, O'Malley's in Sydney's Kings Cross creates an oasis for a few carefree hours. Examines the Australian pub entertainment scene.

Life Support

1993
Documentary
60mins
Status: Completed

This documentary looks at how modern medicine deals with the frail, the elderly and the dying, contrasting three communities to explore how medicine might be used in the last stage of life. It tells the stories of Harold Chinlund, an 82-year-old fighting pneumonia and pancreatic cancer in Sun City, Arizona, America's oldest retirement community; Bernadette Mannion of Clifden, Ireland, struggling to care for her 94-year-old mother; and Mata Shukla, a 94-year-old woman whose children have taken her to a hostel in Benares, India, to die.

Friends For Life

1993
Short film
Animation
15mins
Status: Completed

The Kangaroo Creek Gang explore health, friendship and HIV/AIDS preventative behaviour.

Still Life

1993
Short film
50mins
Status: Completed

Francis embarks on a role in a new play, but he can't shake off Vincent Van Gogh, the character of his last play.

Life Forms

1993
Short film
38mins
Status: Completed

LIFE FORMS tells the story of 14-year-old Emily and her mother Mel who live in a large rambling house in country Victoria. The story takes place over a year of changes in their lives. Emily's father Gerard is often absent on working trips so the two women are very much left to their own devices. When Gerard begins to stay away longer, Mel becomes moody and nervous. Then a car swerving to miss a dog changes their lives forever.

A Slice of Life or the Crumbs of Existence

1993
Short film
Animation Experimental
15mins
Status: Completed

'I do not cut my life up into days, but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.' The romantic myths of Paris are deconstructed and a vision of the city reformed through the fragments of ritual, memory, rhythm and the minutiae of daily life.

Still Life: The Taxidermy of Sammy Furnari

1993
Documentary
Experimental
9mins
Status: Completed

Amongst the suburban sprawl of Western Sydney lies a small garage. Inside, the bodies of deceased pets and other animals are given new life. This is the work of Sammy Furnari – taxidermist.

Muttaburrasaurus: Life In Gondwana

1993
Documentary
Animation
27mins
Status: Completed

This film brings to light a number of Australian dinosaurs that inhabited the Australian continent many millions of years ago.

My Life as I Live It

1993
Documentary
55mins
Status: Completed

An update on Essie Coffey's earlier film 'My Survival as an Aboriginal', made in 1978. It incorporates some of the 1978 footage and characters from the earlier film, showing how life has changed for the Aboriginal community of Brewarrina, in far north-west NSW.

art ads life

1994
Short film
15mins
Status: Completed

A formalist and structuralist look at the changing relationship between artwork, advertising and people since the 1940s. Advertisements from each era are brought to life; art-works are shown in unfamiliar forms; and a picture of life in each decade is painted in anecdotes of the times. Documentary and drama combine to form an unusual vista of the recent past and an opportunity to explore the changing styles and biases of the times.

Flight For Life

1994
Documentary
Status: Completed

Twenty ultralight aircraft travel from Sydney to Australia's Cape York Peninsula to raise money for children dying with cancer. Along the way they encounter crocodiles, sharks, and explore wilderness areas along the Eastern Australian coastline. FLIGHT FOR LIFE is a fun adventure filled with excitement and wildlife.

Life Chances

1994
Documentary
56mins
Status: Completed

LIFE CHANCES takes us into the homes of seven children from different cultures, educations and income levels, focusing on the parents' expectations for their child in the future, and revealing the discrepancies in the choices and opportunities offered to each child. A powerful and well observed evocation of the stresses placed on the family today, and how they may impact on the child in the future.

Temptations Of Life

1994
Short film
Experimental
4mins
Status: Completed

A visual expression of feelings, emotions and visions of life that affect the time of childhood, adulthood and old age.

A Life Apart

1994
Short film
15mins
Status: Completed

An elderly man loses his wife in a boating accident. Left with pain and guilt, he tries desperately to keep a grasp of his valuable memories.

The Life of Harry Dare

1996
Feature
90mins
Status: Completed

Harry Dare's troubles began the day he first set eyes on that kombi van. He should have thrown it back in the river, but he didn't. He should have listened to the warnings of 'bad-spirit trouble', but he didn't. It was as if that kombi had a hold on Harry and wouldn't let go. After it's stolen he treks off to find it: lucky his son Jim is around to help. Together they search and discover what they were really looking for ... each other. And without that kombi, they wouldn't have gotten into half the trouble they did!

Country Life

1994
Feature
117mins
Status: Completed

Life on the Dickens' Australian sheep station is disrupted by the arrival of a long-lost son-in-law whose arrogant demands, European standards and young English wife overturn the family's orderly routine.

The Secret Life

1995
Short film
20mins
Status: Completed

Sigrid was born in Berlin (1925). Spending the latter part of her youth between East Prussia and Berlin there would be two men who would play a significant role in Sigrid's youth. One would be Hitler, who with the Nazi party would attempt to change the nature of German society. The other would be her father....

It's A Dog's Life

1995
Short film
8mins
Status: Completed

It's a dog's life all right, but just who is the dog?

Beneath The Blue - The Marine Life Of Sydney

1995
Documentary
46mins
Status: Completed

BENEATH THE BLUE shows the little known beauty and diversity of the underwater marine life around Sydney Harbour.

Into Each Life

1995
Short film
21mins
Status: Completed

David, a 30-year-old vet, remains detached from his present life, unable to communicate with his young son, and alienated from others around him. The film proceeds in a series of flashbacks, as he searches for something in his own childhood, a memory or image, on which to build a relationship with his son.

Rhythms of Life

1995
Documentary
53mins
Status: Completed

This is the story of life from the perspective of the solar system. The rhythmic behaviour of both plants and animals is fundamental. All life moves, grows, wakes and sleeps to some heat regulated by the changing influences of the sun and the moon upon our earth. RHYTHMS OF LIFE uses time lapse motion control photography and high resolution computer graphics combined with real time footage in a sophisticated and imperceptible manner to explore daily, tidal, lunar, seasonal and annual cycles which affect all ecosystems, from the forests to the oceans and from the equator to the poles.

A Life

1995
Documentary
17 x 55mins
Status: Completed

Profiles the lives of prominent Australians including Weary Dunlop, Kath Walker, Dr H.C. Coombes, Dame Mary Durack, Mark Oliphant, Sir Sidney Nolan, B.A. Santamaria, John Gorton, Max Harris, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Judy Cassab, Gordon Chater, Harry Seidler, Bill Wentworth, Sir Hubert Opperman, Don Dunstan, Sir Charles Mackerras, Patsy Adam-Smith, Dame Beryl Beaurepaire, Sir Garfield Barwick, Ann Moyal, John Olsen, R.M. Williams.

The Chronicle Of Life

1996
Short film
Animation
4mins
Status: Completed

An old book, thrown out by an older woman, is found by a little girl. As she goes through its pages her life is revealed from beginning to end. Was the older lady also young when she found the book?

Still Life

1996
Short film
11mins
Status: Completed

Carmel blames the world and it's social structure for her problems. Her refusal to wear glasses has cost her pain and money for all the car accidents she's had. Through an unexpected car accident Carmel learns that there is humanity left in today's society.

Wild Life

1996
Documentary
52 x 60mins
Status: Completed

WILD LIFE is an international television documentary series which focuses on the unique and multi-faceted relationships between man and nature and the ways they interact.

Floating Life

1996
Feature
95mins
Status: Completed

An Asian family migrates from Hong Kong to Australia and finds it is caught between two cultures. A compelling, poignant story about how to be a family in a new land.

Life

1996
Feature
85mins
Status: Completed

As night falls two men face their mortality in a prison cell. Both of different ages and backgrounds. Both prisoners of the past and the pain of unresolved memories. Des and Ralph fear a future that may never come... For them life on the inside is a life only half lived - but only time will tell.

I've Made Some Smart Decisions in My Life

1997
Short film
3mins
Status: Completed

A light-hearted tale of a male youth reflecting on his introduction to the 'rawer' side of life. Set in and around Hindley Street, Adelaide.

The Fabric of this Life

1997
Short film
12mins
Status: Completed

Work and life in a small clothing factory collide with the politics of 1973 Australia. Through the eyes of Bill, a mechanic. THE FABRIC OF THIS LIFE reveals an intimate vision of how we really are in relation to the things we make.

Shadow Life

1997
Short film
9mins
Status: Completed

SHADOW LIFE, the director's first film, is a stark B/W film with a subtle soundtrack that looks at the 'Jungian' concept of the 'shadow' and the consequences of its repression. The visual style, pacing of actors and editing create an interesting hybrid of the director's strongest cinematic influences - Japanese cinema and certain European directors.

Still Life with Aeroplane

1997
Short film
20mins
Status: Completed

'A tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing' - Macbeth. STILL LIFE WITH AEROPLANE is a surreal comedy set around an aeroplane or is it a film shoot? A sequence of events structured strangely.

Life and Death

1997
Short film
6mins
Status: Completed

Five minutes in a man's life that happen to be his last...

An Imaginary Life

1997
Documentary
55mins
Status: Completed

An illuminating profile of the writer David Malouf, recognised as one of Australia's finest novelists and poets. Shot in Australia, Italy, England and Ireland, this film uses a combination of interviews, integrated dramatisations, archival footage and cinema verité sequences to explore the work of this complex man. It reveals a writer who looks closely into ordinary lives and events and finds something precious in them, giving those mundane moments meaning and making them into art.

Mabo: Life of an Island Man

1997
Documentary
87mins
Status: Completed

On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo's tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction that Australia was empty when first occupied by white people had been laid to rest. MABO - LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN tells the private and public stories of a man so passionate about family and home that he fought an entire nation and its legal system. Though his greatest victory was won only after his death, it has forever ensured his place - on Murray Island and in Australian history. Also available on SP Betacam.

Life in the City

1998
Documentary
7mins
Status: Completed

In order that they are allowed to become sole owners of their deceased Aunty's haunted castle, Craig and Bryan attempt to make a cutting edge documentary about life in the city.

Flight for Life

1999
Documentary
5 x 27mins
Status: Completed

Shot over a six month period in the spectacular scenery of remote Australia, FLIGHT FOR LIFE follows the lives of the doctors, nurses, patients and families dependent on organisations like the Royal Flying Doctor Service and tiny hospitals, to cope with everything from life threatening emergencies to basic human contact in the hot and sometimes perilously dry outback.

Life in a Datsun

1999
Documentary
7mins
Status: Completed

With no talent or money Bryan and Craig attempt to make a cutting edge documentary about the Datsun 120Y.

The Secret Life of Us

2000
TV drama
90mins
Status: Completed

THE SECRET LIFE OF US is a sexy one and a half hour drama about a group of 20-somethings living in the urban environs of St Kilda. They have yet to make it, but know it's just a matter of time.

Life in a Volkswagon

2000
Short film
7mins
Status: Completed

Australia's sickest sequel! Bryan and Craig foolishly attempt to create a sequel to their film LIFE IN A DATSUN, however their concept of making an 'anti-film' is railroaded by the industry.

Hybrid Life

2000
Documentary
13 x 26mins
Status: Completed

A series of 13 half-hour dramas and documentaries exploring the experience of Australians of second and third generation migrant background. HYBRID LIFE screened in mid-2001, and represents SBS Television's major contribution to the Centenary of Federation.

The Love of Lionel's Life

2000
TV drama
90mins
Status: Completed

Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.

Life is too Serious

2000
Documentary
54mins
Status: Completed

An arts biography about the life and work of German born, Jewish Australian composer George Dreyfus. With a career spanning over half a century, Dreyfus is one of Australia's most successful, innovative, and prolific composers. He is also an idiosyncratic and perplexing figure as he still chases the recognition that some feel has unfairly eluded him. Featuring wonderful musical performances staged especially for the film, this is a rich exploration of a man who is as colourful as his music. As he wrote on the score of his second symphony - 'life is too serious, to be taken seriously'.

Shanti Life

2000
Documentary
27mins
Status: Completed

SHANTI LIFE is about the pursuit of happiness through looking at the lives of westerners in the East. Through five characters who have been living in either India or Nepal for more than ten years, we look at some of the various styles of life available to foreigners in these countries and the different motivations that guide them. The filmmaker has a subtle presence as protagonist and with her we travel within these two countries, questioning the nature of happiness and where it can be found. Seeing the choices this diverse range of characters have made, from a businessman to a Buddhist monk, reminds us of the choices we all have wherever we are.

Life Drawing

2000
Short film
12mins
Status: Completed

Straight, hard, urban lines consume the life of Mitch, a 30-something architect. He burns the midnight oil at his draftsman's desk and when satisfied, retreats to his favourite cafe. On this night however, He'll experience more than his usual latte. A past love will reappear and make him remember...

Life After Birth

2000
Short film
Animation
4mins
Status: Completed

Twin girls, faced with the prospect of their imminent birth become very anxious about what happens after birth. They doubt if there is a mother, a world and even LIFE AFTER BIRTH.

Detour on the Wheelie of Life

2001
Short film
Animation
4mins
Status: Completed

Three redneck youths go for a joyride in their new car, seeking their first roadkill. Things go astray when, after hitting a wallaby, they crash.

Island Life

2001
Documentary
6 x 50mins
Status: Completed

A series exploring the interaction between people and wildlife on a range of Australia's truly spectacular islands.

Steve Myhill

Steve Hartley

Steve Hughes

Steve Adam

Steve Alfred

Steve Allrich

Steve Annis

Steve Anthopoulos

Steve Aranguren

Steve Arnold

Steve Atkin

Steve Baker

Steve Ball

Steve Barrett

Steve Bartlett

Steve Best

Steve Bibb

Steve Birdsall

Steve Browne

Steve Bruce

Steve Burnell

Steve Burns

Steve Callen

Steve Campbell

Steve Carter

Steve Chasman

Steve Christiansen

Steve Coates

Steve Cooper

Steve Cosh

Steve Crombie

Steve Daniel

Steve Dart

Steve Davis

Steve Dixon

Steve Doig

Steve Dundon

Steve Eleftheriadis

Steve Ellis

Steve Elphrick

Steve Feke

Steve Fitz-Maurice

Steve Fleming

Steve Francis

Steve French

Steve Gardner

Steve Gates

Steve Griffiths

Steve Hadley

Steve Harrison

Steve Hawke

Steve Hayden

Steve Hewlett

Steve Hill

Steve Hodgins

Steve Hope

Steve Hopkins

Steve Hutensky

Steve Irwin

Steve Isaac

Steve J Spears

Steve Jacobs

Steve Jaggi

Steve Jeffares

Steve Jodrell

Steve Joe

Steve Johnson

Steve Johnston

Steve Jones

Steve Kearney

Steve Kilbey

Steve Knapman

Steve Krantz

Steve Lane

Steve Levitan

Steve Lewis

Steve Little

Steve Lucas

Steve Lynch

Steve Lyons

Steve MacDonald

Steve Mann

Steve Marshall

Steve Martin

Steve Matthews

Steve McCall

Steve McNaughton

Steve Middleton

Steve Mitchell

Steve Moltzen

Steve Mortimer

Steve Murray

Steve Newman ACS

Steve Newnham

Steve Norris

Steve Nossiter

Steve Oemcke

Steve Parker

Purple Haze

1998
Documentary
56mins
Status: Completed

Katherine Hynes (narrator), real life candidates of the Jacaranda Queen competition

Police Rescue series 3

1993
TV drama
13 x 60mins
Status: Completed

Gary Sweet, Sonia Todd, Steve Bastoni, Steve Bisley, John Clayton, Tammy MacIntosh, Jeremy Callaghan, Belinda Cotterill

Stationery

1995
Short film
14mins
Status: Completed

David Pidd, Steve Whittaker, Christie Sistrunk, Steve Adams, Peter Green, Dave Grant

Broke

2016
Feature
102mins
Status: Completed

Steve Le Marquand, Max Cullen, Claire Van der boom, Brendan Cowell, William Zappa, Steve Bastoni

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

2002
Feature
89mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham, Kate Beahan, Kenneth Ransom, Lachy Hulme, Steve Bastoni, Aden Young, Steve Vidler

Trip For Biscuits

2017
TV drama
Online
18 x 10mins
Status: Completed

Steven O'Donnell, Paul Verhoeven, Charlotte Nicadao, Kate Mylius, Reef Ireland, Mansoor Noor

The Suicide Theory

2015
Feature
100mins
Status: Completed

Steve Mouzakis, Leon Cain

Damage Control

2015
Short film
5mins
Status: Completed

Matt Doran, Steve Bastoni, Anni Finsterer, Millie Spencer-Brown

Leonids

2015
Short film
12mins
Status: Completed

Trevor Major, Tom Saxton, Steve Condron

Kill Your Dinner

2015
Short film
12mins
Status: Completed

Steve Rodgers, Sacha Horler, Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke

Scission

2015
Short film
15mins
Status: Completed

Steve Hayden, Jessica Gower, Emily Wheaton, Lucia Emmerichs, Rachel Soderstrom, John Flaus

Wanted series 1

2016
TV drama
6 x 45mins
Status: Completed

Rebecca Gibney, Geraldine Hakewill, Nicholas Bell, Steve Peacocke, Ryan Corr

Criticism

2014
Short film
14mins
Status: Completed

Craig Behenna, Rhys Bobridge, Steve Greig

Not Real

2016
Short film
6mins
Status: Completed

Thomas Stanton, Steve Hayden, Rachel Soderstrom, Daphne Tankard

How 'Mad' Are You?

2018
Documentary
2 x 53mins
Status: Completed

Narrator: Judy Davis, Presenter: Dr. Steve Ellen

Australian Gangster

2018
TV drama
2 x 90mins
Status: Completed

Alexander Bertrand, Louisa Mignone, Rahel Romahn, Steve Bastoni

Book Week

2018
Feature
100mins
Status: Completed

Alan Dukes, Susan Prior, Airlie Dodds, Toby Schmitz, Nicholas Hope, Khan Chittenden, Steve Bastoni, Tiriel Mora, Steve Le Marquand, Matilda Ridgeway, Vanessa Buckley

Plonk series 1

2014
TV drama
Online
3 x 24mins
Status: Completed

Chris Taylor, Joshua Tyler, Nathan Earl, Susie Porter, Steve Bisley, Veronica Milsom, Matt Moran

Brock

2016
TV drama
2 x 88mins
Status: Completed

Matthew Le Nevez, Ella Scott Lynch, Brendan Cowell, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Steve Bisley

Muirhouse

2012
Feature
Status: Completed

Iain P.F. McDonald, Kate Henderson, Steve Lynch, Libby Ashby, David Saporito, Jordie McKay, Lewis Ryan

Event Zero

2012
TV drama
Online
7 x 5mins
Status: Completed

Damian Walshe-Howling, Zoe Carides, Bel Delia, Steve Davis

Bondi Vet series 5

2013
Documentary
30 x 50mins
Status: Completed

Dr Chris Brown, Dr Lisa Chimes, Dr Andrew Marchevsky, Tim Faulkner, Steve Oemcke (narrator)

One Eyed Girl

2015
Feature
101mins
Status: Completed

Mark Leonard Winter, Steve Le Marquand, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Craig Behenna, Kate Cheel, Matthew Crook

Small Time Gangster

2011
TV drama
8 x 28mins
Status: Completed

Steve le Marquand, Sacha Horler, Gia Carides, Gary Sweet, Geoff Morrell, Jared Daperis, Samuel Johnson

Wasteland

2010
Feature
80mins
Status: Completed

Keiren King, Michael Williams, Tui simmons, Steve Wardle, Matt Bolger Hobson, Megan Chippendale

The Tunnel

2011
Feature
90mins
Status: Completed

Bel Deliá, Andy Rodoreda, Steve Davis, Luke Arnold

Arrivals and Departures

2009
Short film
10mins
Status: Completed

Steve McCall, Alan Chambers, Kathryn Delaney

Birth of a Warrior

2011
Feature
90mins
Status: Completed

Tonny White, Kee Chan, Pat Thompson, Kate Ryerson, Chan Griffin, Rob Flanagan, Steve Morris, Matt Rudduck

Into My Arms

2009
Short film
12mins
Status: Completed

Steve Le Marquand, Kate Mulvany, Matilda Tordoff

Behind Mansion Walls series 1

2011
Documentary
13 x 60mins
Status: Completed

Steve Liebmann (host)

Joey

2011
Short film
17mins
Status: Completed

Steve Mouzakis, Tony Nikolakopoulos, Anthony Taufa, Katerina Kotsonis, Claudio Carelli, Rob Morgan, Sarah McPherson

Bondi Vet series 4

2012
Documentary
16 x 21mins
Status: Completed

Dr Chris Brown, Dr Lisa Chimes, Steve Oemcke (narrator)

Living Country

2006
Documentary
23mins
Status: Completed

Steve McCormack, Allcoota Community

The Central Link

2006
Short film
7mins
Status: Completed

Gideon Jennings, Steve Mossman, Ted Wasiewits

Whingeing Bastard

2006
Short film
Experimental
1mins
Status: Completed

John Rogers, Jon Garland, Brendan Hawke, Steve Kennedy

Men's Group

2008
Feature
104mins
Status: Completed

Grant Dodwell, Paul Gleeson, Steve Le Marquand, Don Reid, Steve Rodgers, Paul Tassone, William Zappa, Matthew Waters, Maria Simpson, Lily Kate Simpson, Louise McCabe

Traveller: Curse of the Del Garria

2004
Short film
28mins
Status: Completed

Andrew Merkelbach, Joanne Rose, Lawrence Cumming, Maureen Lesjak, Sam Mellor, Steve Simpson, Nicholas Cameron

The Funk

2008
Short film
Animation Experimental
7mins
Status: Completed

Steve Adams, Trudy Hellier, Jacek Koman (narrator)

Did You Know?

2007
TV drama
Animation
13 x 1mins
Status: Completed

Steve Baker

Ocean's Deadliest

2007
Documentary
52mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin, Phillipe Cousteau

Crikey! What an Adventure

2007
Documentary
48mins
Status: Completed

Terri Irwin, Bindi Irwin, Steve Irwin

15

2007
Short film
3mins
Status: Completed

Gillian Emmett, Steve Nation, Jasmine Serveding, Georgii Speakman

Secrets of the Crocodile

2007
Documentary
43mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

2007
Documentary
10 x 23mins
Status: Completed

Narrator: Steve Bisley

My Country

2007
Short film
11mins
Status: Completed

Steve "Mullawulla" Dodd, Roxanne Mcdonald, Samson Page, Cate Feldman

Oh, Monah

2006
Short film
3mins
Status: Completed

Steve Berriman, Romany Lee

He. She. It.

2008
Short film
16mins
Status: Completed

Steve Abbott, Sophie Lowe, Albert Potestas

The Limited Adventures of Philo Fish

2007
Short film
Animation
5mins
Status: Completed

Steve Daniel, Rob Seip, Jo Seip

Animal

2007
Short film
9mins
Status: Completed

Kiah Baxter, Phoebe Gulpilil Marson, Steve Adams, Jack Walker, Matt Boesenberg, Paul Cousins, Carter Doyle

Steve Anthopoulos

Woolooware

Steve Irwin Productions

Kenmore

The Steve Jaggi Company

For The Life Of Me

Kat Life Films

Balaclava

Life At 9 Pty Ltd

Life Force Films

Gordon

Life Of Jess Productions Pty Ltd

Life On The Reef Pty Ltd

See-Saw (Life) Productions Pty Ltd

Still Life Pictures Pty Limited

Doncaster East

Steven Bond

Three Steve's Productions

Osborne Park

Great Urban Myth

Lifestyle Channel

Sydney

Military Myths Defeated

Myriad Pictures

Los Angeles

Mysterious Light Pty Ltd

Mystery Clock Cinema Pty Ltd

Camperdown

Mystery Road Films Pty Ltd

Mystery Road Media Pty Limited

Stone Age Mystery Pty Ltd

The Role Of A Lifetime Pty Ltd

Urban Myth Pictures

Middle Park

Torn

2007
Feature
90mins
Status: Completed

What if a stranger decides to ruin your life? Daniel, a timid bookseller, has a random encounter with Steve, a successful real estate agent. In Steve, Daniel suddenly sees all that is wrong in the world, and sets out to destroy him. When Steve realizes that his unknown enemy wants him to spend the rest of his life as a frightened, hunted man, Steve decides to defend those dear to him, before they are taken from him.

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

2002
Feature
89mins
Status: Completed

He's Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter. He's Steve Irwin: wildlife crusader. He's Steve Irwin: real-life action hero. But Steve Irwin: international spy? Crikey! That's the absurd assumption that lands the world's favourite adventurer smack in the middle of an espionage incident that goes from the Aussie outback all the way up to the White House.

Hitch Cock

2005
Short film
10mins
Status: Completed

Steve has the perfect fifties lifestyle: a great job, a beautiful apartment, a loving wife and great friends. However, upon returning home from work one evening, Steve looks through his telescope and accidentally witnesses something which could change his life forever. Unable to forget what he has seen, Steve discovers the effect this has on his psyche is far more than he can deal with as he comes to terms with his dark secret.

Baxter and Me

2015
Documentary
80mins
Status: Completed

BAXTER AND ME - one independent woman's life with and without men, but always with dogs.

An Evergreen Island

2000
Documentary
45mins
Status: Completed

In 1989 the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that was destroying their land. As a result a blockade was imposed around the island. This is a film about a people who survived for nine years without assistance from the outside world. From scratch they built their own schools and colleges. Without Western medicines or health professionals they turned to their traditional bush medicine, without weapons they made their own guns out of water pipe, without communications they charged batteries using solar power to run satellite telephones and 2-way radios, and without a power station they generated their own electricity by harnessing water energy.

Wog Boys Forever

2022
Feature
100mins
Status: Completed

The once infamous Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis is now in his mid-life years, still single and working as a taxi driver. His sad and lonely life continues to pass him by until one day his ex-girlfriend Cleo unexpectedly jumps into his cab and he quickly realises she might be the one that got away all those years ago. But just when he thought life couldn't get more complicated, Brianna Beagle-Thorpe, the Minister for Immigration, hatches out a plan with her brother Clayton to exact their revenge on Steve for destroying their late mother Raelene's political career, 20 years earlier.

The Crocodile Hunter series 3

1999
Documentary
18 x 45mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin – 'The Crocodile Hunter' travels the globe in search of some of the worlds most amazing, deadly and unusual wildlife. From the remote Galapagos island archipelago in South America, across the island continent of Australia, through the jungles of Indonesia and plains of Africa into the grandeur of the USA, Steve discovers a world full of unique critters. With infectious enthusiasm and an emphasis on conservation Steve comes face to face with deadly snakes, snapping crocodiles, the worlds largest lizards, charging elephants, endangered orangutans and marauding tiger sharks.

The Crocodile Hunter
SERIES OVERVIEW

1998 - 2001
Documentary
70 x 45mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin,'The Crocodile Hunter', travels the globe in search of some of the world's most amazing, deadly and unusual wildlife. From the remote Galapagos island archipelago in South America, across the island continent of Australia, through the jungles of Indonesia and the plains of Africa into the grandeur of the USA, Steve discovers a world full of unique critters. With infectious enthusiasm and an emphasis on conservation, Steve comes face to face with deadly snakes, snapping crocodiles, the world's largest lizards, charging elephants, endangered orangutans and marauding tiger sharks.

Steve the Queen

2024
Short film
8mins
Status: Completed

Seasoned drag queen, Steve the Queen, is preoccupied with hosting duties at drag bingo and misses his son Davey's all-important apprenticeship meeting. Steve fails to smooth things over and is forced to confront the reality of his shitty parenting. When Davey makes an incredible peace offering, Steve takes his first steps, kicking and screaming, toward better parenting.

Steve Irwin's Ghosts of War

2001
Documentary
2 x 50mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin's grandfather and great-grandfather were both killed in World War II’s Pacific Theatre. Steve's father-in-law, Clarence Raines, served in the Pacific on the USS Boise through numerous naval battles. The tragedy and triumph of this shared history has linked Steve’s family heritage to the historic events that shaped the world over 60 years ago. In this epic two-part mini-series, Steve revisits some of the notorious and legendary battle grounds of the Pacific conflict between the Allied forces and Japan.

Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos

2010
Feature
101mins
Status: Completed

Things haven’t been going well for Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis. His one true love, a ’67 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his assets by the Federal cops, and Steve’s best mate Frank has lost his touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But Steve soon discovers that he has inherited a beach on the Greek resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met – a beach worth millions... A comedy about what happens when cultures clash – and an underdog, who prevails against the odds while searching for love and identity.

Lullabies

1993
Short film
14mins
Status: Completed

LULLABIES condenses the contradictory thoughts and emotions one experiences when a lover is absent without notice.

After Image

1995
Short film
Experimental
18mins
Status: Completed

This is a journey without end, without ostensible purpose. Trapped in the cable car, you are left to the devices of your own imagination.

Stingers series 1

1999
TV drama
22 x 60mins
Status: Completed

A drama series about undercover cops - police who work behind enemy lines, always without a badge and frequently without protection.

Water

2017
Short film
10mins
Status: Completed

A pregnant woman must survive in a dystopian world without water.

Change of Heart

1995
Short film
13mins
Status: Completed

Steve is in jail for killing his lover. He escapes from jail to have a second chance at life and encounters the spirit of his dead lover in a mortuary. The spirit wants revenge. Steve wants to escape.

The Man Who Sued God

2001
Feature
90mins
Status: Completed

When lightning strikes and sinks Steve Myers' fishing boat (and home) the insurance company declares it an Act of God and refuses to pay. No man can prevail against the might of the multinational. Angry and hungover, Steve sees no way but to sue the other party - God.

High Stakes

2000
Short film
Animation
5mins
Status: Completed

An old bet gains new life as a life long dispute reaches new heights.

Ocean's Deadliest

2007
Documentary
52mins
Status: Completed

Steve Irwin's last documentary and his most powerful message to the world. Joined by Phillipe Cousteau, Steve embarks on an adventure around the coastline of Australia to study nature's most dangerous creations.

Dream Life

2008
TV drama
55mins
Status: Completed

Once upon a time there was a family whose father made a deal for a perfect life. Now his son will do anything to get them out of it. Set in the dark underworld of an exclusive suburb where modern life meets mythology, Dream Life is a twisted tale laced with mystery, riches, superstitions and true love. The good life can be a nightmare.

Shadows of the Past

2009
Feature
102mins
Status: Completed

Shadows of the Past is about Steve Kelly, a retired rodeo champion, who accepts a rematch with notorious bucking bull, 'Black Friday', the same bull that ended his career several years ago. Steve must also deal with the return of his estranged wife Danii. We see him battle with the prospects of a fading career and the chance to love again.

Bathing Franky

2012
Feature
99mins
Status: Completed

When Steve is released from prison, he is unable to connect with his girlfriend, as he is still haunted by his relationship with a fellow inmate. Taking a meals-on wheels job, he meets Rod, a wildly irrepressible older man, who is the full-time carer for his invalid mother. Steve is captivated by the older pair's extravagant and fanciful world of make-believe and an intimate friendship between the men develops.

Decadence: Decline Of The Western World

2011
Documentary
102mins
Status: Completed

All civilisations rise and fall. For 300 years, the Judeo-Christian West has been the world’s pre-eminent civilisation. So, where is the West on the timeline? Many have theorised about the fall of the western world but now we appear to have the evidence. Negative birth rates, ageing populations, debt-laden economies and immigration - the West consumes without consequence, loves without longevity and lives without meaning. Decadence, a simple powerful essay-style documentary, asks if the West has peaked? And due for a new renaissance or a final dark age?

Equal Opportunity

2006
Short film
7mins
Status: Completed

As Steve waits for the bus, he calls the transport info line and talks with an operator who can't speak English. Then he meets Chuck, a man who has bent equal opportunity to his will. Chuck's story will change Steve's life forever.

The Playbook

2012
Feature
109mins
Status: Completed

Steven Thomas strives to live a worthy life. A loving father and basketball coach. However, after a tragic accident caused by a drunken friend sees Steven's family torn apart, Steven struggles to come to terms with forgiving the person responsible and this causes him to lose a grip on those things most important to him. But as his ideal world begins to fall apart, it is through the support of his young basketball team, he manages to use his basketball playbook to rekindle his spiritual worthiness and be the father he was meant to be. Thus not only inspiring his young team to realise that there is more to life than winning basketball games, but also get his life and family back on track.

For the Love of Cinema

2017
Short film
7mins
Status: Completed

An elderly man, Gerald, has his life thrown into disarray after the death of his wife Rosemary. Life without her is incomplete and at the same time, Gerald’s run down film cinema is about to be shutdown. Everything seems hopeless, until a secret message from Rosemary is discovered, which leads him on the trail of a mystery.

My Life is Murder series 1

2019
TV drama
10 x 60mins
Status: Completed

A cop show without a cop, MY LIFE IS MURDER is a contemporary mystery of the week series with a complex, charismatic and compelling investigator who can’t help fighting the good fight – whether it’s solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of daily life.

My Life is Murder
SERIES OVERVIEW

2019 - 2019
TV drama
20 x 60mins
Status: Completed

A cop show without a cop, MY LIFE IS MURDER is a contemporary mystery of the week series with a complex, charismatic and compelling investigator who can’t help fighting the good fight – whether it’s solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of daily life.

The Wayne Manifesto

1997
TV drama
26 x 30mins
Status: Completed

A year in the life of Wayne Wilson as he makes new friends, attends a new school and generally learns about the world around him - all without getting into too much trouble.

Mirror Mirror

2007
Short film
10mins
Status: Completed

After so many years together, Joe faces life without Jana. Goodbyes are never easy...

Jo and John

1997
Short film
3mins
Status: Completed

A glimpse into the life of a young couple, Jo and John. Jo comes home from work to find John's unemployment benefit is cancelled. Jo proceeds to rant at John, complaining about his hopeless lifestyle. She's at the end of her tether but can she contemplate a life without him?

My Daddy the Crocodile Hunter

2007
Documentary
50mins
Status: Completed

Bindi Irwin takes us on an intimate guided tour of her eight years of life growing up with her famous dad. Through archival tapes that have recorded her life with her dad, Bindi attends the 'University of Steve'.

The Dream Children

2015
Feature
98mins
Status: Completed

A haunting and provocative film about Steven Evans, a troubled TV personality who struggles to find meaning in his life in the face of the superficial world he has created. When his long-time partner hurls him headfirst into fatherhood, Steven’s initial reluctance is gradually replaced with love, as he discovers in his new family a bond stronger than any he has experienced before. But the return of an unexpected visitor triggers off a series of events that thrusts Steven and his family into a vortex of loneliness, self-destruction and grief.

A Terrible Beauty

2016
Short film
8mins
Status: Completed

In 2064, a world in which robots are ubiquitous, Olivia is the creator of the life-like Shinjoi (Soulmate) robots. When her father destroys her prototype, a replacement for her dead mother, Olivia questions her fundamental belief in a world without suffering. She resets the program on her life partner Patrick and embarks upon a deeply personal experiment to understand what it means to fall in love.

Time Apart

2020
Feature
80mins
Status: Completed

TIME APART explores a long distance relationship with a sci -fi twist - when Seb starts mysteriously vanishing for years at a time, girlfriend Nina struggles to move on without him.

Tales From Afar

1995
Documentary
18mins
Status: Completed

Tracey Mahood's firsthand experience of war in El Salvador and growing up in Australia's North is both harrowing and gripping. This monologue has passion without prejudice, conviction without bias.

Pelicans of the Ghost Lakes of Australia

2000
Documentary
52mins
Status: Completed

The ephemeral inland lakes of Australia occur only one a decade. the environment and climate is such that, for most of the time, these expansive lakes are crusty saltpans. Generations of animals live and die in these deserts without ever experiencing the wonder of the lakes. this is the deserts without ever experiencing the wonder of the lakes. this is the story of how the animals survive such extremes of nature.

Hacksaw Ridge

2016
Feature
138mins
Status: Completed

HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Mustangs FC series 2

2018
TV drama
13 x 25mins
Status: Completed

The Mustangs are back to kick it like girls again. But now they’ve got to field a team WITHOUT super striker, Ruby. Can they even win without her? And will Marnie ever lift the league cup for reals?

Under Rookwood

1996
Documentary
Experimental
20mins
Status: Completed

UNDER ROOKWOOD is a poetic meditation on the largest necropolis in the southern hemisphere - historic Rockwood cemetery in Sydney's west, a city within a city. Created from it's rich, moody double-bass score, the images of UNDER ROOKWOOD generated a second 'layer' of music in public screening/performance during post-production. Working almost entirely without words, the film explores the textures of time, the architecture and the ruins of grief, the slow life of lichen, the quick life of willy wagtail, the strange silence of the completeness of death and, at last, the angel of vision that lies beyond the grave with a million souls who live six feet under Rookwood.

The Great Pretender

1999
Short film
11mins
Status: Completed

THE GREAT PRETENDER is the story of a girl called Laura who decides the answer to her problems is to buy a padded bra. However Laura soon discovers that life with breasts isn't too different to life without them.

Bondi Rescue series 1

2006
Documentary
8 x 23mins
Status: Completed

A summer in the life of the Bondi Lifeguards.

The Perils of Flossy

2008
Short film
Animation
5mins
Status: Completed

THE PERILS OF FLOSSY is the story of a young woman whose powerful negative thinking brings unpleasant situations into her life. She literally becomes 'stuck in the mud' with all the 'bad things' that she sees and experiences. She cannot move on with her life without letting go of her negativity and leaving it behind her. She has to make a decision!

The Other Guy series 2

2019
TV drama
Online
6 x 30mins
Status: Completed

When a producer approaches AJ about making a TV show about his shitty life, he thinks he may finally have an opportunity to get back on top. But how do you make a show about your life without pissing off everyone in it?

Smoke Between Trees

2021
Feature
105mins
Status: Completed

Mathew Higgins is a broken man, alone and without family. When his estranged Aboriginal grandson reenters his life, he is forced on a journey that will change his life forever.

Dark Age

1987
Feature
91mins
Status: Completed

Steve Harris, a wildlife officer, is torn between his official commitments and his loyalties to the Aboriginal community.

Edge of Realty

2003
Short film
7mins
Status: Completed

Steve Sticht, a smug real estate agent under pressure to close a multi-million deal, is pushed to the edge when he discovers a severed arm wedged in the sofa.

Peephole

2005
Short film
2mins
Status: Completed

Steve has arranged to meet Susan for a blind date. So why won't she answer the door?

Crikey! What an Adventure

2007
Documentary
48mins
Status: Completed

Exhilarating adventure moments and unseen footage recognises, celebrates and honours Steve Irwin's passion and enthusiasm for spreading the importance of wildlife conservation.

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Steve Irwin's Ghosts of War

Mungindi with Steve Ellis

Capturing Cricket: Steve Waugh in India

Steve the Queen

Not Without Risk

Man Without Pigs

Animals Without Backbone

Passport Without a Country

Without Consent

Without Choice

Without Consent

Words Without Music

Without Direction

10 Days Without You

Without Warning

Without a Sound

Zambezi - Flood without End

Play Without Words

Minister without Money

Without A Home

Without Permission

Lost Without You

My Year Without Sex

Art Without Borders

Without Consent

Song Without Words

With or Without You

A Slice of Life

For The Term of His Natural Life

Pintubi, The Life and Fate of a People

Where There's Life

Half Life

Real Life

Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh

A Dangerous Life

A Little Life

A Surfer For Life

A Day in the Life of a Child: Children of Bali

Life on Earth as I Know It

Life In Broome With Malcolm Douglas

Catalyst: The Language of Life Genetics

A Day in the Life of a Woman

For a Better Life

Stan and George's New Life

Worst Day Of My Life

The Life and Death of Sandy Stone

The Time Of Your Life

Life at the Top

An Anchor Into Life

Life at Little Lon

Songs Of Innocence: A Child's View of Family Life

Shelf Life

Life at O'Malley's

Life Support

Friends For Life

Still Life

Life Forms

A Slice of Life or the Crumbs of Existence

Still Life: The Taxidermy of Sammy Furnari

Muttaburrasaurus: Life In Gondwana

My Life as I Live It

art ads life

Flight For Life

Life Chances

Temptations Of Life

A Life Apart

The Life of Harry Dare

Country Life

The Secret Life

It's A Dog's Life

Beneath The Blue - The Marine Life Of Sydney

Into Each Life

Rhythms of Life

A Life

The Chronicle Of Life

Still Life

Wild Life

Floating Life

Life