Annual Report - Screen Australia

MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX
A romantic and slightly dark
comedy exploring religion, sport,
consumerism, self-improvement,
the sexualisation of children, the
pervasive instructions of the
media – and love.
Hibiscus Films Pty Ltd (PC),
John Maynard, Andrew Myer (EP),
Bridget Ikin (P), Sarah Watt (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Sacha Horler,
Matt Day, William McInnes
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Footprint Films (ANZ),
The Works International (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $2,400,000
PRIME MOVER
Prime Mover is a diesel charged
love story about ambition,
pressure, responsibility and
the love shared by a man, a
woman and his truck.
Porchlight Films Pty Ltd (PC),
Andrew Mackie, Richard Peyton
tbc (EP), Vincent Sheehan (P),
David Caesar (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Emily Barclay,
Ben Mendelsohn, William McInnes,
Michael Dorman
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Transmission (ANZ),
Becker International Films (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,436,458
SALUTE
(feature documentary)
The inside story of Peter Norman,
a sprinter from Australia,
and his role in a defining,
symbolic moment of the American
Civil Rights Movement – the
Black Power Salute at the 1968
Olympics. There has never been
a convenient time to protest
against injustice.
An Actors Cafe and Instinct
Entertainment (PC), Matt Norman
(P/D/W), David Redman (P)
PRINCIPAL CAST Peter Norman,
Tommie Smith, John Carlos
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Instinct Distribution (ANZ), Instinct
Eden Rock International (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,110,000
SOUTH SOLITARY
South Solitary is a dramatic,
windswept romance about the
great need for companionship
and hope.
Macgowan Films / Sarah Radclyffe
Productions Ltd (PC), Emile Sherman
(EP), Marian Macgowan,
Sarah Radclyffe (P), Shirley Barret (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Bettany
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Icon (ANZ), Maximum (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $3,109,987
THE LAST RIDE
The Last Ride is a contemporary
road movie about a young boy
and his father on the run from
the law, and the price that survival
demands of love.
Talk Films (PC), Nicholas Cole,
Antonia Barnard (P), Glendyn Ivin
(D), Mac Gudgeon (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Hugo Weaving
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Madman Entertainment (ANZ),
ContentFilm International (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,411,828
THE LOVED ONES
The Loved Ones tells the story of a
young man digging himself out of
his own grave.
Ambience Entertainment (PC),
Mark Lazarus, Jason Moody (P),
Sean Byrne (D/W)
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Madman (ANZ), Arclight Films
International (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,040,432
TO HELL & BACK
Eddie is being drawn home
from the city on important cultural
business, but his trip gets off to a
rocky start when he discovers his
older but more wayward cousin
Charlie, has ‘lost’ Eddie’s
special stone.
Media World Pictures Pty Ltd (PC),
Ross Hutchens (P),
Richard Frankland (D/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Luke Carroll,
Leon Burchill, David Page,
Valentino Del Toro
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
SBS, Lightning Entertainment (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $2,220,000
TWO FISTS ONE HEART
Two Fists One Heart tells the story
of how a father’s thwarted
ambition threatens to destroy his
most precious possessions – the
love of his wife and the allegiance
of his son.
Palm Beach Pictures Pty Ltd (PC),
David Elfick (P), Shawn Seet (D),
Rai Fazio (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Daniel Amalm,
Ennio Fantastichini, Jessica Marais,
Rai Fazio, Paul Pantano, Tim Minchin
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION Buena
Vista International (ANZ), Hanway
Films (ROW)
FFC PARTICIPATION $4,000,000
ADULT TELEVISION DRAMA
CARLA CAMETTI PD
Carla Cametti PD is a fast-paced
and fresh crime series with a
young Italian-Australian female as
its lead.It is a human drama with
lashings of crime and a huge dollop
of wit, casting an eye across the
incongruity of earthy day-to-day life
butting up against the heightened
reality of designer-dressed gangsters
roaming our streets.
6 X 60 MINUTE MINI-SERIES
Buona Notte Productions Pty Ltd
(PC), Ewan Burnett (EP),
Elisa Argenzio, Cristina Pozzan (P),
Ian Watson (D), Jo Martino,
Samantha Winston, Liz Doran,
Kris Mrksa (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Diana Glenn,
Sullivan Stapelton,
Robert Mammone,
Vince Colosimo, Nicola De Silva
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION SBS
TV and SBS Sales
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,700,000
DIRT GAME
A six part drama series about a UK
CEO who is sent out by his
secretive London Board to head up
a debt-ridden Australian mining
firm and who – with the help
of a hastily-formed Aussie
crisis-management team – is under
ruthless instruction to either
save the company or dump it.
6 X 60 MINUTE MINI-SERIES
Harvey Taft Productions (PC),
Michael Harvey, David Taft (P),
Brendan Maher, Grant Brown (D),
Michael Harvey (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Joel Edgerton,
Freya Stafford, Gerald Lepkovsky
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
ABC TV, Beyond/Omnilab
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,269,075
EAST OF EVERYTHING
– SERIES 2
When Art and Vance Watkins
re-open the doors of the ramshackle
resort they grew up in, they unwittingly
invite the return of the free-spirited
father who abandoned them decades
earlier, when his paradise was spoiled.
Twenty 20 Pty Ltd (PC), Fiona Eagger
(P), Stuart McDonald (D), Deb Cox
(CoP/W), Roger Monk (AssP/W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Richard Roxburgh,
Tom Long, Gia Carides, Susie Porter,
Valerie Bader, Kathryn Beck
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
ABC TV, Indigo Film and Television
FFC PARTICIPATION $877,133
EAST WEST 101 – SERIES 2
In season two, East West 101
expands to seven episodes as the
Major Crime Squad investigate
crime and murder in aII quarters
of multi-cultural Sydney.
Knapman Wyld Television Pty Ltd
(PC), Steve Knapman, Kris Wyld
(P), Peter Andrikidis (D),
Kristen Dunphy, Michael Miller,
Michelle Offen, Vanessa Bates,
Katherine Thompson (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Don Hany,
Susie Porter, Aaron Fa’Aoso,
Daniella Faranacci
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
SBS TV, SBS Content Sales,
FFC PARTICIPATION $945,122
FALSE WITNESS
Against the heavily researched
feature backdrop of bickering
intelligence agencies, fallible police
forces and international tensions,
False Witness is a high-octane
thriller based on the West’s worst
nightmare: a threat they do not
see coming.
2 X 120 MINUTE MINI-SERIES
Screentime Pty Ltd (PC),
Des Monaghan, Brendan Dahill,
Justin Bodle (EP), Greg Haddrick
(P), Peter Andrikidis (D),
Ronan Glennane, Nell Greenwood,
Greg Haddrick (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Dougray Scott,
Rachael Blake, Richard Roxburgh,
Jeremy Lindsay
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Power, UKTV
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,383,746
SAVED
The story of a married woman who
saves a young Iranian refugee from
detention, only to fall passionately
in love with him.
2 X 60 MINUTE MINI-SERIES
Big and Little Films (PC),
Tony Ayres, Michael McMahon (P),
Tony Ayres (D), Belinda Chayko (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Claudia Karvan,
Osamah Sami, Andy Rodoreda
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION SBS
TV, SBS Content Sales
FFC PARTICIPATION $403,557
SCORCHED
Five years from now and after 600
days without rain Sydney has run
out of water…then the
unthinkable happens. The city is
engulfed by fire.
TELEMOVIE
Essential Viewing in association
with Firelight Productions (PC),
Jo Horsburgh, Rosemary Blight,
Chris Hilton (EP), Kylie Du Fresne,
Ellenor Cox (P), Tony Tilse (D),
Marcus Gillezeau (Cross Platform P/
D), Tim Pye (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Cameron Daddo,
Georgie Parker, Vince Colosimo,
Libby Tanner
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Nine Network,
Granada International
FFC PARTICIPATION $1,096,356
SEA PATROL – SERIES 2
Everyday heroes doing an
extraordinary job.
13 X 60 MINUTE MINI-SERIES
McElroy All Media (PC),
Hal McElroy, Di McElroy (EP),
Geoff Bennett, Ian Barry (D),
Michaeley O’Brien, Jeff Truman,
Tony Morphett, John Ridley,
Matt Ford, Philip Dalkin,
Samantha Winston and
Felicity Packard (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Lisa McCune,
Ian Stenlake, Saskia Burmeister
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION Nine
Network/Portman Media
FFC PARTICIPATION $2,000,000
THE CIRCUIT – SERIES 2
Aboriginal lawyer Drew Ellis
continues his journey on the
chaotic, challenging world of the
Kimberley Court – a circuit that
takes a magistrate and an
entourage of court officers and
lawyers on a regular five day
2000 kilometre round trip to
dispense justice to the dusty,
remote communities of northwestern
Australia.
Media World Pictures (PC),
Ross Hutchens, Colin South (P),
Dot West, Yvonne Collins (CoP),
TBC (D), Kelly Lefever, Dot West,
Mitch Torres (W)
PRINCIPAL CAST Aaron Pedersen,
Gary Sweet, Kelton Pell,
Tammy Clarkson, Marta Kaczmarek
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
SBS TV, SBS Content Sales
FFC PARTICIPATION $852,446
THE CUT
The Cut is a comedy drama, which
explores the soft underbelly of
professional sport by following the
fortunes of a family owned sports
management company run by a
colourful patriarch.
6 X 60 MINUTE MINI-SERIES
Tom Blacket Media (PC),
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