feature films

  • ALI'S WEDDING

    2017 | FEATURE | 110MINS

    DIRECTOR JEFFREY WALKER
    WRITERS OSAMAH SAMI ANDREW KNIGHT

    After a reckless lie sets off a catastrophic chain of events, Ali, the son of a Muslim cleric, finds himself caught between his sense of duty to his family and following his heart. An irreverent and warm-hearted comedy, ALI’S WEDDING is an affectionate and entertaining story of love and duty.

  • CUT SNAKE

    2015 | FEATURE | 94MINS

    DIRECTOR TONY AYRES
    WRITER BLAKE AYSHFORD

    Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, CUT SNAKE tells the story of Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell), a very private man in his twenties who is trying to make a life for himself in a new city. He has found honest work and becomes engaged to the beautiful Paula (Jessica De Gouw). But the prospect of his new life is challenged when the charismatic Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) tracks him down. Sparra finds himself drawn back into a world that he thought he had left behind.

  • LOU

    2010 | FEATURE | 85MINS

    DIRECTOR BELINDA CHAYKO
    WRITER BELINDA CHAYKO

    The tender story of the relationship between 11-year-old Lou and her grandfather. Not long after Lou’s father walks out of her life, her grandfather crashes in. But when Doyle comes to stay Lou discovers, against all her expectations, the healing power of love.

  • THE HOME SONG STORIES

    THE HOME SONG STORIES

    2007 | FEATURE | 105MINS

    DIRECTOR TONY AYRES
    WRITER
    TONY AYRES

    The story of Rose, a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, and her struggle to survive in Australia with her two young children. An epic tale of mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, unrequited love, betrayal and hidden secrets that spans continents and decades.

television

  • CLICKBAIT

    2021 | TV DRAMA | NETFLIX | 8 X 60MINS

    When family man Nick Brewer is abducted in a crime with a sinister online twist, those closest to him race to uncover who is behind it and why.

  • DEADLINE GALLIPOLI

    2014 | TV DRAMA | 4 X 47MINS

    Deadline Gallipoli brings together the high-octane drama of the battlefront and the personal journeys of the soldiers who have signed up for a war they believe will be glorious. It is the untold story of the journalists – Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, Phillip Schuler & Keith Murdoch – who find themselves appalled by how the battle is being managed. They are flawed human beings, workaholics, and womanisers, but each is profoundly affected by the bravery and wholesale slaughter he witnesses.

  • NOWHERE BOYS

    2013 – 2018 | TV DRAMA

    Four boys get lost in the forest, and discover, when they return home, that they have returned to an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference – they were never born.

  • THE SLAP

    2011 | TV DRAMA | 8 X 55MINS

    At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event and what follows, ricochets through a group of family and friends to shocking effect. THE SLAP is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The television adaptation of THE SLAP will be a powerful, haunting tale about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and all the passions and conflicting beliefs – that family can arouse.

  • SAVED

    SAVED

    2009 | TV DRAMA | 100MINS

    DIRECTOR TONY AYRES
    WRITER BELINDA CHAYKO

    Centering on Julia Weston, an advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention and her increasing attraction towards him.

  • BOGAN PRIDE

    2008 | TV DRAMA  |  6 X 30MINS  

    DIRECTOR PETER TEMPLEMAN
    WRITER REBEL WILSON

    Bogan Pride is a smart and sassy musical comedy that takes a wry look at modern life. It’s written by and stars Rebel Wilson as Jennie Cragg, an overweight Christian teenager from the mythical suburb of Boonelg, somewhere in Australia.

  • CALL ME MUM

    CALL ME MUM

    2005 | TV DRAMA | 76MINS

    DIRECTOR MARGOT NASH
    WRITER KATHLEEN MARY FALLON

    When Kate decides to reunite her Torres Strait Islander foster son with his birth mother, dangerous family and racial tensions surface.

documentaries

  • ANATOMY: ART, SEX AND THE BODY

    ANATOMY: ART, SEX AND THE BODY

    2009 – 2013 | DOCUMENTARY SERIES | 12X30 MINS

    Anatomy explores the ways artists/performers deal with the subject of sex and the human body to give us an insight into how sexuality and the body work as driving forces in the creative process.

  • NEXT STOP HOLLYWOOD

    2012 | DOCUMENTARY  |  6 X 27MINS

    This six-part series is a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood through the eyes of six aspiring Australian actors, as they compete with the world’s best for coveted roles during the highly competitive US TV pilot.

  • MURUNDAK: SONGS OF FREEDOM

    2011 | DOCUMENTARY | 82MINS
    DIRECTORS AND WRITERS
    NATASHA GADD RHYS GRAHAM

    A documentary following the Black Arm Band, a gathering of Australia's finest Aboriginal musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of struggle, resistance and freedom.

  • WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRENDA HEAN?

    2008 | DOCUMENTARY | 90MINS

    DIRECTOR SCOTT MILLWOOD
    WRITERS SCOTT MILLWOOD MIRA ROBERTSON

    A remarkable story of Brenda Hean - one of the first leaders of an environmental political party in the world - whose fight to save Tasmania's Lake Pedder led to her mysterious disappearance in 1972. Thirty-five years later, a filmmaker undertakes a quest to discover the truth.

  • WILDNESS

    2003| DOCUMENTARY | 55MINS

    DIRECTOR SCOTT MILLWOOD
    WRITER SCOTT MILLWOOD

    Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis were perhaps Australia's greatest wilderness photographers. Their work became synonymous with campaigns to protect Tasmania's natural heritage. They shared many things, including a bond that was more like that of father and son. Both came from Baltic Europe and migrated to Tasmania, where their passion for nature became a crusade to save an environment under threat. Both died in the wilderness, doing what they loved, and left a legacy in extraordinary images. Their philosophy was simple and remarkably effective - if people could see the beauty of Australia's wild places then they might be moved to save them.

  • MAN MADE: TWO MEN AND A BABY

    2003 | DOCUMENTARY | 52MINS

    DIRECTOR EMMA CRIMMINGS
    WRITERS EMMA CRIMMINGS CATHERINE DIXON

    Tony and Lee, a gay male couple from Melbourne, wanted a family. IVF and adoption were not possible so Tony and Lee merged their sperm and using an egg from a separate donor placed a fertilised embryo in the womb of a US surrogate.

  • THOMSON OF ARNHEM LAND

    2000 | DOCUMENTARY | 55MIN

    DIRECTOR JOHN MOORE
    WRITER MICHAEL CUMMINS

    Shunned by the government and ostracised by white society, anthropologist Donald Thomson paid a high price for his progressive views on Aboriginal culture.

  • SADNESS

    1999 | DOCUMENTARY | 52MINS

    DIRECTOR TONY AYRES
    WRITER
    TONY AYRES

    Award-winning photographer William Yang explores issues of grief, family and identity in this film adaptation of his acclaimed stage performance, Sadness.