Fiction Development decisions

JUNE 2010

Title: GOOD VIBRATIONS
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Richard Gray
Producer: Richard Gray
Writer: Michele Davis-Gray
Director: Richard Gray
Current Stage: Eighth Draft
Approved Stage: Ninth Draft
Synopsis: Travelling home on the tram Friday evening, Emily suddenly collapses. Passengers rush to her aid but they are soon distracted by an odd buzzing noise. Something has dropped out of Emily's bag that will change their lives forever. An extraordinary ripple effect transpires over the next twentyfour hours, as this one event transforms the lives of twelve unsuspecting passengers.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Final Stage Development - $23,600
Decision Date: 25 June 2010

Title: THE CIRCUS
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Circus Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Leanne Tonkes
Writer: Emily Ballou
Director: Emma Freeman
Executive Producer: Leah Churchill-Brown
Current Stage: Sixth Draft
Approved Stage: Seventh Draft
Synopsis: The Circus is a haunting romantic drama of a family's struggle to triumph over adversity and rediscover the magic, hope and love that has escaped them.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Final Stage Development - $25,900
Decision Date: 25 June 2010

Title: MY BEST FRIEND IS A WEREWOLF
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Boilermaker Pty Ltd
Producer: Andrew McInally
Writer: Gareth Calverly
Script Editor: Meg Lefauve
Executive Producer: Bryce Menzies
Current Stage: Treatment
Approved Stage: First Draft
Synopsis: When a wild dog bites lonely high school girl Rosie, she decides she's an all-powerful werewolf; her best friend Violet must prove that Rosie isn't a werewolf; she's just crazy.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Development Treatment to Draft - $22,500
Decision Date: 25 June 2010

Title: THE ADVENTURES OF FIGARO PHO
Production Type: 6 x 7 minutes/2 x 30 minutes
Applicant: Chocolate Liberation Front
Producers: Dan Fill and Frank Verheggen
Writers: Brendan Luno and Sam Carroll
Script Editor: Mark Shirrefs
Other: Luke Jurevicius, Deane Taylor, Art Director
Current Stage: Script, Bible and Storyboard Development
Approved Stage: 6 x 7 minutes scripts, revised bible, two storyboards and two animatics

MARCH 2010

Title: BORN AGAIN VIRGIN
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Giula Sandler
Writer: Giula Sandler
Script Editor: Sam Jennings
Current Stage: Outline
Proposed Stage: Treatment
Approved Stage: Project Consultation
Synopsis: A joyously promiscuous woman must become a Born Again Virgin in order to find true love.
Approved Program: Special Initiatives Feature Film Projects (Script Development Initiatives) - $6,000
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: CRUCIFIXIONATA - THE GEOFFREY TOZER STORY
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: LJM Productions Pty Ltd & Baystreet Productions
Producers: Lesley Hammond & Jenny Walsh
Writer: Alan Hopgood
Current Stage: Outline
Approved Stage: Treatment
Synopsis:  Arguably Australia's greatest pianist, Geoffrey Tozer was a flawed but brilliant musician who was ostracized in his own country by a contemptuous and vindictive music establishment.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Outline to Treatment - $13,000
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: WORST BAND IN THE UNIVERSE, THE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Circe Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Beth Frey
Writer: Ray Boseley
Director: Glen Hunwick
Current Stage: Outline
Approved Stage: Treatment
Synopsis: Talented young alien Sprocc defies the authorities to shake up his musically mired homeworld of Planet Blipp with his band's innovative new sound.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Outline to Treatment - $13,000
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: YESTER DAN
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Aquarius Films
Producer: Polly Staniford
Writer: John Pace
Current Stage: Outline
Approved Stage: Treatment
Synopsis: At the lowest ebb of his life, three of Daniel Peal's past selves turn up in his lounge-room, annoyed and disappointed with what he's made of their life and determined to fix it according to how they imagined their future.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Outline to Treatment - $13,000
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: TAKE MY ADVICE I'M NOT USING IT
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Picture Palace Pty Ltd T/A Scriptworks
Writer: Karin Altmann
Current Stage: 1st Draft
Approved Stage: 2nd Draft
Synopsis: Kat, Daniel and Max are friends - and they're really good at avoiding love.  Kat roots and runs, Daniel evades it altogether and Max is engaged to a bitch.  When Kat has a financial crisis, Daniel gets a new boss and Max has to learn the waltz, they each meet the love of their lives and things just HAVE to change.  Several screw-ups and a lot of heartache later, they do.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (writer) - $26,300
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: TRUE LOVE COMMANDOS
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Cam Eason
Writer: Cam Eason
Current Stage: 7th Draft
Proposed Stage: 8th Draft
Approved Stage: Project Consultation
Synopsis: Chet, the leader of a Mission Impossible-like team that engineers the coincidences behind the ways people meet and find True Love, must learn to understand what love really is or he will never find love for himself.
Approved Program: Special Initiatives Feature Film Projects (Script Development Initiatives) - $6,000
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: ABRAHAM'S SON
Production Type: Feature
Applicant:  Rogue Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: David Rapsey
Writer/Director: Fin Edquist
Script Editor: Simon Van der Borgh
Current Stage: 1st Draft
Proposed Stage: 2nd Draft
Approved Stage: Project Consultation
Synopsis: Vampires were invented as an excuse for far grislier crimes. Felix wants to sink his fangs into Gemma; She knows a better remedy for his longing, even though it won't be as much fun. First victim. First score. First kill. Felix is confused. Gemma can set him straight but his family life will never be the same again.
Approved Program: Special Initiatives Feature Film Projects (Script Development Initiatives) - $6,000
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: FEMALE FACTORY, THE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Caroline Waters
Producer: Caroline Waters
Writers: Polly McGee & Yvette Blackwood
Consultant Producer: Jan Chapman
Current Stage: 3rd Draft
Approved Stage: 4th Draft
Synopsis: 12 year old girl accesses a time portal to get what she needs in the modern world.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (producer) - $27,500
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: HORRENDO'S CURSE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: 403 Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Matt Hearn
Writers: Steven Vidler & Chris Phillips
Script Editor: Warren Coleman
Current Stage: 2nd Draft
Approved Stage: 3rd Draft
Synopsis: A small boy, cursed to be only kind and polite, must survive being kidnapped by bloodthirsty pirates in search of a mythical treasure.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (producer) - $31,400
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: SLEEPER, THE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Edstrong Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Mish Armstrong
Writer/Director: Fin Edquist
Script Editor: David Rapsey
Current Stage: 4th Draft
Approved Stage: 5th Draft
Synopsis: An Anglo terrorist discovers a life worth living as he counts down the days to a suicide mission.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (producer) - $23,500
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

Title: SLOW FOOD FAST BUCK
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Day For Night Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Martin Fabinyi
Writer: George Tosi
Current Stage: 2nd Draft
Approved Stage: 3rd Draft
Synopsis: Elly Madison, a young fast-tracker, learns to value personal happiness above professional success when her exclusive Slow Food Tour runs off the rails in Italy.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (producer) - $23,300
Decision Date: 1 & 2 March 2010

JANUARY 2010

Title: FAT, FORTY AND FIRED
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Robyn Kershaw Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Robyn Kershaw
Writer: Michael Brindley
Current Stage: 4th Draft
Approved Stage: 5th Draft
Synopsis: When over-stressed, overweight adman Nigel turns forty, he's suddenly fired but he turns catastrophe into opportunity
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Final Stage - $35,475
Decision Date: 29 January 2010

Title: IN MORAL DANGER
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Circe Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Beth Frey
Writer: Mary Walsh
Current Stage: 2nd Draft
Approved Stage: 3rd Draft
Synopsis: Just 14 this is a story of a girl who ran away from her family only to be sold into sexual slavery. Now 40, with a child of her own, the woman returns home, facing her gravest fears and her foe.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (producer) - $29,000
Decision Date: 29 January 2010

OCTOBER 2009

Title: CASH MACHINE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Film Camp Pty Ltd
Producer: Philippa Campey
Writer/Director: Paul Oliver
Current Stage: Treatment
Approved Stage: Revised Treatment
Synopsis: A Pimp named Ryan, who together with his Hooker, is on the run from a ruthless crime boss. He robs a John in an ATM booth, only to be trapped inside by the police, who gradually realise that Ryan is an undercover cop gone astray. Unable to escape or surrender, Ryan has to discover who has betrayed him to get out alive. Is it the Hooker, the John, the cops or has he just betrayed himself?
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Outline to Treatment - $13,000
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

Title: PATRICK
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Antony I.Ginnane
Producer: Antony I.Ginnane
Writer: Justin King
Script Editor: Ray Boseley
Director: Mark Hartley
Current Stage: Treatment
Approved Stage: 1st Draft
Synopsis: A re-imagining of the classic '70s Australian chiller. In room 15 of the secluded Roget Clinic lies a comatose murderer named PATRICK. His doctor thinks he's nothing more than 75 kilos of limp meat hanging off a dead brain - but Kathy, a young nurse, knows very differently. Patrick has a crush on Kathy, and burgeoning psychic powers. His affection is about to turn into a deadly, bloody obsession!
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Treatment to Draft - $28,000
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

Title: WALK IN THE WOODS
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Provincial Films
Writer: Michael Henry
Current Stage: Treatment
Approced Stage: Project Consultation
Synopsis: Several months after a traumatic car accident, Julianne and her husband Marcus embark on a three-day hike as part of her physical rehabilitation. Their journey takes a dark turn when a young female hiker goes missing from the trail. Julianne suspects that fellow hikers EJ and Rem have something to do with the girl's disappearance. As the evidence against the pair mounts, Julianne and Marcus find themselves locked in a battle of wits against EJ and Rem. Julianne's rehabilitative hike transforms into a terrifying ordeal that tests both her marriage and her own physical and emotional endurance.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Treatment to Draft - $6,000
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

Title: WHITE LIES
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Daniel Cardone
Writer: Daniel Cardone
Current Stage: Treatment
Approced Stage: Project Consultation
Synopsis: After a series of affairs, things have come to an unpleasant head in Dean and Alice's marriage. However, rather than just let their long-standing union dissolve, Dean has decided they will retreat to their isolated house in the woods in the dead of winter to discuss the situation in a 'logical and adult' fashion. This works against Alice's natural tendency to be over-emotional and expressive, but as usual she goes alongwith Dean's wishes. However, before things can really begin, they are interrupted by the arrival a young woman on their doorstep. She is incoherent, and appears to have been savagely tortured. Not only that, she insists her torturers are after her, and will track and kill Dean and Alice too. Thus begins their night of terror, besieged by an unknown threat outside, a damaged woman within, and the horror of having to deal with each other.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Treatment to Draft - $6,000
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

Title: JENNY PLAN, THE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Stuart Parkyn; Nick Ball; Luke Davidson; Gus Johnston
Producer: Stuart Parkyn
Writers: Nick Ball; Luke Davidson; Gus Johnston
Director: Nick Ball
Current Stage: 2nd Draft
Approved Stage: 3rd Draft
Synopsis: It's the 1980s and 12-year-old Chris Daffey has fallen for Jenny Hartnett. There's just one problem: while Jenny is seemingly perfect, Chris is, well, less so. With this in mind he creates an elaborate strategy to improve himself and win Jenny's heart before the end of grade six dance. But with love, nothing ever goes to plan
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (Producer) - $23,500
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

Title: PLEASE EXPLAIN
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Mini Studios Pty Ltd
Producer: Steve Kearney and Leanne Tonkes
Writer/Director: Anna Broinowski
Script Editor: Duncan Thompson
Current Stage: 4th Draft
Approved Stage: 5th Draft
Synopsis: The bizarre true story of Pauline Hanson, a small-town fish & chip shop owner who ignites one million rednecks with her racist views, becomes the most powerful independent politician in the country, survives a firestorm of violence and controversy, and then is collectively destroyed: by Margo Kingston, an alcoholic left-wing journalist who has fallen in love with her; Pauline Pantsdown, a madcap drag queen who pillories her on prime time; David Oldfield, her spin-doctor lover who betrays her to seize power; and by the Government itself, which manipulates the courts to have her thrown in jail. There, she finally learns to say a new word: Sorry.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (Producer) - $35,500
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

Title: RESISTANCE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Maxo Pty Ltd
Producer: Stephen M Johnson
Writers: Chris Anastassiades
Current Stage: 1st Draft
Approved Stage: 2nd Draft
Synopsis: Travis is a bounty hunter whose only hope of redemption relies on him preventing a war between blacks and whites. Gudjuk is a Yolngu man whose only chance at reclaiming his identity is saving the last of his clan. Only one of them can succeed.
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (Producer) - $30,500
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

Title: WATER DIVINER, THE
Production Type: Feature
Applicant: Eleventh Marina Pty Ltd
Producer: Andrew Knight
Writers: Andrew Knight; Andrew Anastasios
Current Stage: 1st Draft
Approved Stage: 2nd Draft
Synopsis: When the Great War ends Joshua Ryan's first instinct is to travel to Gallipoli, to recover the bodies of his three sons, all killed on the one day. Crescent collides with cross, and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still be alive. When Ryan makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: If Art were alive why didn't he come home?
Approved Program: Fiction Feature Film Draft to Draft (Producer) - $34,000
Decision Date: 1st and 2nd October 2009

SEPTEMBER 2009

Title: FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BURBS
Production Type: TV Fiction
Applicant: Daniella Ortega Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Daniella Ortega
Writer/s: Osamah Sami, Shahin Shafaei, Jaime Browne
Writer/Script Editor: Kris Mrksa
Current Stage: First Stage Development
Proposed Stage: Second Stage Development
Synopsis: From Baghdad to the Burbs is the funny side of being a Muslim
Iraqi refugee in post 9/11 Aussie suburbia.
Approved Program: Fiction Television - Co-Funded $22,500
Decision Date: 8 September 2009