“It’s never one moment that sinks a fishing vessel, it’s usually a series of failures and small decisions, that all add up to catastrophe…”
Short Synopsis
Angel Vitelli is constitutionally and temperamentally not made for life at sea. But, the season after her brother is taken by a shark while working the nets, she signs on as the deckhand on her father Vince’s sardine boat. They say fishing is dangerous when your mind isn’t on the job and when Angel realises her unravelling father is obsessed with a familiar shadow lurking in the deep, she’ll have to decide whether to cut him loose or go down with the ship. Is blood thicker than the depths of an angry sea?
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“It will never work, they don’t know how to use white goods...”
Short Synopsis
One of Us! is an eight part, thirty minute black comedy about a historically unscrupulous family who decide their only way to survive is a government contract to accommodate a series of refugee families in their backwater motel/petrol station.
Set in a world where an alternative to offshore detention is under trial by a new government, the tiny township/petrol station/motel of Ferris Creek will be one of the first to participate in the controversial experiment. Amongst a menagerie of outrageous motel guests, two families seeking asylum will be offered a new life in Australia’s shittest town.
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“Some of these guys have been on the ice all winter, we don’t know what they found down there…”
Short Synopsis
There’s No God Below 60 is a horror film about Clementine (Clem) Scott, an Australian historian who travels to Antarctica to investigate the unexpected remains of a group of people that pre date early European explorers. What made these people travel to the end of the earth? What were they looking for? Where did they come from? With the discovery pointing to an indigenous people most likely from Chile, Argentina, New Zealand or even Australia as the actual first man to step foot in Antartica, representatives from all around the world turn up to validate the find.
The remains are brought back to the isolated French research base Concordia and soon Clem realises an ancient spirit has been brought back too. She befriends a shy 12 year old French girl called Emilie, who has spent the ‘winter over’ with her father at the station. Emilie speaks about a new friend at the station, known as ‘Mother’. Antarctic weather sets in and strands the international expedition at the base. The ‘Mother’ grows stronger in their isolation and takes on human forms to stalk the group. As it picks them off one by one, it turns the base into a tumultuous mad house. With the lines of reality blurred, who can tell what is real and what is Mother’s Mischief?
IN DEVELOPMENT
Intermittently filmed on the same farm over a period of 18 months, Giants plays out amongst the changing landscape of the worst drought in Australia’s history. Green to yellow to a red Mars like dust bowl.
Luke thinks the drought is breaking. So he doesn’t de-stock as planned, but instead get’s his herd ready to calve in the spring. His family are the lucky ones, they’re on good country. If Luke gets up early and works hard, they’ll be rewarded. It’s always been that way. But, the rain doesn’t come.
Luke is forced to wonder what’s happened to the good country inside his fence.
8 year old global warming alarmist Raymond Banks brings civil action against his parents, claiming loss of future income due to the worlds impending total demise.
When Martin, a South Sudanese refugee, happens upon a bull he believes is his spiritual totem, he decides to rescue it from the abattoir he works in. Once home, the bull begins to jeopardise Martin’s family’s chance at fitting in. Martin is torn between his ancient cultural identity and his family’s new life in Australia.