2 x 90 mins mini-series commissioned by ABC Australia/Southern Star
Production Company Southern Star John Edwards
Producers: John Edwards, Karen Radzyner
Starring: Asher Keddie as Ita Buttrose, Rob Carlton as Kerry Packer
Director: Daina Reid
Writer: Christopher Lee
The top-rating story of how a magazine legend was made and the people who made it became legends.
7 x 1 hr anthology thriller series for Nine Network Australia and Southern Star Endemol
Production Company: New Town Pictures
Producers: Bryan Brown, Karen Radzyner, Helen Watts
Starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, Sam Worthington, Melissa George, Deborah Mailman, Aden Young, Susie Porter and Garry Macdonald.
Directors: Cannes Palme d’or winner Glendyn Ivin, Film Critics Circle winner Rachel Ward, Kate Riedl, Paul Middleditch and Graeme Burfoot, the series won the AWGIE Award, the ADG Award and the ASCG Award.
Set in the worlds of the present, the future and the supernatural, two Twisted features seven sharp, spooky one-hour programs in two parts, each comprising two self-contained stories.
Feature Film | 90 mins
Starring Garry Macdonald, Alice McConnell and Simon Stone
Director | Writer: Miro Bilbrough
Released in cinemas in NZ and France in 2013
Sometimes the men in a woman’s life bring nothing but trouble.
15 mins
Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sacha Horler, Eamon Farren, Ben Winspear
Based on the SAKI short story THE OPEN WINDOW
Director: Kate Riedl
Adapted by Matthew Dabner
When a nervous suitor arrives at the estate of a local matriarch, his hopes of a suitable match with her charming niece are soon challenged. Based on a story by the writer, Saki, this seductive tale of a young heiress has been transposed to the dry, sunburnt elegance of 1930s Australia.
15 mins
Starring Odessa Young, Danielle Cormack, Les Hill
Writer | Director: Sonia Whiteman
A handyman’s problems are taken to new heights when faced with a teenage girl who’s convinced he’s actually a moonlighting TV action star.
15 mins
Starring Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman
Writer | Director: Sonia Whiteman
Len, a young autistic man, is struggling with the practicalities of day-to-day life in the months following his mother’s death. He clings to short messages she wrote for him in a diary, one for each day. Her last cryptic instruction, taken literally by Len, sets him off on a strange and ultimately cathartic course towards new love.
21 mins
Starring Susan Prior
Writer | Director: Sonia Whiteman
Late one night on a lake teeming with eels, 13 year old Lucy learns from her only friend, an unusual boy called Jack, that if you’re brave, life really starts when you break free of the rigid rules of teenage life.
11 mins
Starring Marta Dusseldorp, Daniela Farinacci
Director: Kate Riedl
POV Adaptation of Brendan Cowell’s original script by Greg Waters
What will it take for Kim to realise that the object of her obsession is not the thing she desires most?
7 mins
Starring Heidi Arena and Abe Forsythe
Writer: Greg Waters | Director: Jacqui Schulz
With diamonds and Manolo Blahniks at stake, two women match wits to find out the true meaning of the term ‘lay preacher’.
9 mins
Starring Brendan Cowell
Writer: Greg Waters | Director: Jacqui Schulz
Sometimes maintenance means more than fixing cars.
16 mins
Starring Joel Edgerton
Writer | Director: Peter Carstairs
A whodunnit on a sheep station.
