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.
Documentary | 30 mins
Starring Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin
Director: Kate Riedl
Twenty-Five years on from the original production of the stage version of Strictly Ballroom, this film looks back with Baz Luhrmann at the incredible creative journey this project and its creators have been on.
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.
Starring Cameron Daddo, Lucy Taylor
Music: Cold War Kids
Director: Kate Riedl
Writer: J David Harden
When bad things happen, you just keep rolling.
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.
Documentary | 3omins
Broadcast on ABC Catalyst to over a million viewers
Director | Producer: Kate Riedl
“The most basic human right you’ve got is the chance to fulfill your genetic potential,” says Professor Eastman.
Moving through Tibet to Beijing and then back to Australian, The Man Who Saved A Million Brains takes us on a rare journey to see how two dedicated Australian doctors have played a critical role in what is described as the most significant public health advance this century, since the elimination of small pox. In doing so they are not only changing the health profile of the next generation of Tibetan children, but also preventing Australian children from a similar fate.
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.
Short Documentary
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Frank Shadforth
Director: Kate Riedl
Covering over 750,000 acres, the vast Pungalina-Seven Emu Wildlife Sanctuary protects an area of extraordinary conservation significance, and represents an historic partnership between AWC and an indigenous landholder, Frank Shadforth and his family. The Seven Emu component of the wildlife sanctuary is aboriginal pastoral land, owned by Frank Shadforth, that is leased to AWC for nearly 30 years.
Gala Screening – Four Seasons Hotel, New York
Short Documentary
Director: Kate Riedl
Infamous New York celebrity Cartoonist, Marissa Marchetto, opens up about her battle with breast cancer, and her passionate fight to help uninsured women in America get the help they need to conquer this disease.
Gala Celebrity Screening – New York
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.
10 mins
Starring AACTA Award winning Actress Marta Dusseldorp (Janet King, A Place To Call Home) and Mark Lee (Gallipoli)
The past and present collide as Elly faces her greatest fear yet. Written by award winning writer Stephen Sewell, who won and AFI Award for best screenplay for the feature film The Boys, Elly is a drama that combines the workings of the unconscious with memories from childhood. The film tracks Elly’s descent into paranoia and delusion, and her journey out the other side.
