Annual Report - Screen Australia

PROJECTS REPORT
FEATURE FILMS
FINANCED THROUGH
MARKETPLACE
BRIGHT STAR
Bright Star is an intense exploration
of the two-year relationship
between the eighteen-year-old
Fanny Brawne and the twenty
three-year-old John Keats; the now
famous English romantic poet.
Guided by John Keats’ letters to
Fanny it charts their blessed yet
fated love affair.
Jan Chapman Films Pty Ltd (PC),
Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt (P),
Jane Campion (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Abbie Cornish,
Ben Whishaw
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Hopscotch (ANZ), Pathe (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $4,450,000
COFFIN ROCK
Coffin Rock is an intimate thriller
that honestly explores the dark
consequences of choices made
to satisfy a basic human desire
...a family.
Ultrafilms Pty Ltd (PC),
Piers Tempest (EP), Ayisha Davies,
David Lightfoot (P),
Rupert Glasson (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Robert Taylor,
Terry Camilleri
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
All Interactive Distribution (ANZ),
Bankside Films, International Film
Collective (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $852,399
LONG WEEKEND
A married couple take a camping
trip to a remote beach to heal their
savagely wounded relationship, but
prove as destructive and lethal to
the world around them as they are
to themselves. Mother Nature has
a dark side.
Arclight Films Pty Ltd (PC),
Nigel Odell, Gary Hamilton (P),
Jamie Blanks (D), Everett De Roche (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST: Jim Caviezel,
Claudia Karvan
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION:
Arclight Films (ANZ), Arclight Films
International (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION: $2,265,000
MAO’S LAST DANCER
This is the inspirational true story
of Li Cunxin, adapted from his
best-selling autobiography and
telling how, amidst the chaos of
Mao’s Cultural Revolution, he was
chosen to leave his peasant family
and sent on an amazing journey...
as it turned out towards freedom
and personal triumph.
Last Dancer Pty Ltd (PC),
Jane Scott (P), Bruce Beresford (D),
Jan Sardi (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Joan Chen,
Kyle MacLachlan, Chi Cao,
Jack Thompson
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Hopscotch (ANZ) & Roadshow
Australia (ANZ), Celluloid Dreams
International (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $4,000,000
RED DRESS
Desperate to dance and escape
the realities of home, teenager
Ellie dons a pair of fishnets and
heads off on tour. Careful what
you wish for!
International Production Services
Australia Pty Ltd (PC),
Veronica Sive (P), Jane Ballantyne
(CP), Sarah Lambert (D/W)
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Rialto (ANZ), Lightning
Entertainment (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $826,373
SUBDIVISION
When Southern developers move
(PC) Production Company
(EP) Executive Producer
(P) Producer
(CoP) Co-Producer
(SP) Story Producer
(AP) Associate Producer
(CP) Consulting Producer
(D) Director
(CoD) Co-Director
(AD) Animation Director
(W) Writer
(CoW) Co-Writer
(SE) Story Editor
(ROW) Rest of World
(ANZ) Australia/New Zealand
in on Hervey Bay, hot young
exec Tiffany Lambert, forces local
builders to lift their game. A
botched rezoning application
throws the whole community
into turmoil and the troubled
relationship between subcontractors
“Digger” Kelly and his
larrikin son Jack, comes to a head.
Tiffany wonders if Jack will ever
grow up, but what follows is Jack’s
finest hour.
Freshwater Pictures (PC),
Janice Bradnam, Richard Guardian,
Trish Lake (EP), Trish Lake,
Owen Johnston (P), Sue Brooks (D),
Janice Bradnam, Ashley Bradnam,
Terry McCann (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Gary Sweet,
Bruce Spence, Steve Bisley,
Brooke Satchwell
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION Buena
Vista Australia (ANZ), Lightning
Entertainment,
Reyna Films, Motion Picture
Distribution LP (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $788,700
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
Talented sports writer, Joe, is
thrust unexpectedly into single
parenthood. In looking after his
two boys from two different
marriages, Joe starts out by trying
a Peter-Pan-like strategy of no rules
whatsoever, only to find he has a
lot to learn about fatherhood and
about himself.
Southern Light Films Pty Ltd (PC),
Tim White, Greg Brenman (P),
Scott Hicks (D), Allan Cubitt (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Clive Owen
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Hopscotch (ANZ), BBC Films,
Miramax Films, Hanway (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,094,806
FINANCED THROUGH
EVALUATION
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
15-year-old Billy Conway has been
an accident magnet since he was a
kid. When he and his best friend
cause an almighty crash with a
bowling ball and a moving car, Billy
must face up to his family’s history
and learn that sometimes someone
is to blame but that sometimes...
well... accidents just happen.
Red Carpet Productions Pty Ltd (PC),
Heather Ogilvie, Phil Hunt (EP),
Anthony Anderson (P),
Andrew Lancaster (D), Brian Carbee (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Geena Davis,
Joel Tobeck, Harrison Gilbertson
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Hopscotch/Galvanised (ANZ),
Bankside (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $2,114,374
BALIBO
War correspondent Roger East and
the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel
to East Timor to investigate the
murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.
Balibo Film Pty Ltd (PC),
Jamie Carmichael, Graham Begg (EP),
John Maynard, Rebecca Williamson (P),
Robert Connolly (D), David Williamson,
Robert Connolly (W),
PRINCIPAL CAST Anthony La Paglia
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Footprint Films (ANZ),
Content Film International (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $2,870,000
BEAUTIFUL KATE
Ned Kendall returns to his isolated
family home to say goodbye to his
dying father, but memories of his
beautiful sister awaken long buried
secrets from the past.
Beautiful Kate Productions Pty Ltd
(PC), Leah Churchill-Brown,
Bryan Brown (P), Rachel Ward (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Rachel Griffiths,
Ben Mendelsohn, Bryan Brown
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Roadshow, Showtime (ANZ),
The Works (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,975,562
BLESSED
Blessed is a film about mothers and
children, about love and beauty,
about being lost and finding your
way home.
Wildheart Zizani (PC),
Marian Macgowan (EP), Al Clark (P),
Ana Kokkinos (D), Andrew Bovell,
Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius,
Christos Tsiolkas (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST tbc
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Icon (ANZ), Bankside (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,789,783
BRAN NUE DAE
Bran Nue Dae is a road movie,
coming of age, comedy musical
which celebrates the adventure of
finding home.
Robyn Kershaw Productions Pty
Ltd, Mayfan Pty Ltd (PC),
Christopher Mapp,
Matthew Street, Jason Moody,
David Whealy (EP), Robyn Kershaw,
Graeme Isaac (P), Rachel Perkins
(D), Reg Cribb, Rachel Perkins (W)
adapted from the stage play BRAN
NUE DAE by Jimmi Chi and Kuckles
PRINCIPAL CAST Ernie Dingo
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Omnilab/Transmission Films (ANZ),
Omnilab/Bankside Films (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $2,044,595
CANE TOADS
(feature documentary)
Cane Toads is a theatrical
documentary that returns to the
subject filmed by Mark Lewis
20 years ago. It recaps the history
of this ecological disaster and
brings us up-to-date with the
cane toad’s ongoing conquest of
mainland Australia.
Radio Pictures (PC), Mark Lewis (P/D/W)
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Madman Entertainment (ANZ),
Participant Media, Discovery Films
FFC PARTICIPATION $595,589
MARY AND MAX
Mary and Max, a feature length
clay-mation, is a tale of the tender
and amusing friendship between
two unlikely penpals: Mary, a
lonely eight-year-old in Melbourne,
and Max, an isolated older New
Yorker. Spanning twenty years and
two continents Mary and Max’s
friendship survives much more
than the average diet of life’s ups
and downs.
Melodrama Pictures Pty Ltd (PC),
Melanie Coombes (P),
Adam Elliot (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana,
Barry Humphries
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Icon (ANZ), Adirondack (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $4,980,000
MY AMERICA
(feature documentary)
In My America Peter Hegedus
travels to the US to find out what
has happened to the country
he fell in love with as a boy
growing up in Socialist Hungary.
From Brisbane to Budapest, from
South Central LA to Freedom,
Pennsylvania, Peter tries to discover
what lies at the core of the
American heart, and why America
has become the country we all love
to hate.
Soul Vision Films (PC), Trish Lake (EP),
Jane Jeffes (P), Peter Hegedus (P/D),
Peter Hegedus, Mark O’Toole (W)
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Rialto (ANZ), Horizon Motion
Pictures (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $678,891
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