Feature Film / Owen Trevor (2020)
Producers: Sonia Borella, Jamie Hilton
A thrilling family film about a boy who must overcome tremendous odds and his own recklessness to achieve his dream of winning the National Go Kart Championship
Starring: Frances O’Connor, Richard Roxburgh, Dan Wyllie, Anastasia Bampos
Feature Film / Justin Kurzel (2020)
Producers: Justin Kurzel, Paul Ranford, Hal Vogel, Liz Watts
Based on Peter Carey's novel. The story of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s.
Starring: George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Russell Crowe
Feature Film / David Michôd (2019)
Producers: Joel Edgerton, David Michôd, Brad Pitt, Liz Watts, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
Young Henry V encounters deceit, war and treachery after becoming King of England in the 15th century, in the aftermath of his brother's death.
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton
World premiere at Venice Film Festival (2019)
Feature Film / Rachel Griffiths (2019)
Producers: Richard Keddie, Naomi Cleaver, Tim Haslam, Susie Montague-Delaney, Felicity Stoward
Ride Like a Girl is director Rachel Griffiths’ Australian-shot, horse racing feature, following the true story of 'Michelle J. Payne', winner of the 2015 'Melbourne Cup', as the first female jockey to win the event, starring Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill and Sullivan Stapleton.
Feature Film / Leigh Whannell (2018)
Producers: Jason Blum, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones & Kylie Du Fresne.
Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
Starring: Logan Marshall-Green
Feature Film / Boon Joon Ho (2017)
Producers: Plan B Entertainment (for Netflix)
Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating animal named Okja.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins
Feature Film / Jeffrey Walker (2017)
This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
Starring: Alex Acosta, Alicia Banit, Miranda Otto
Feature Film / David Michôd (2017)
Producers: Plan B Entertainment (for Netflix)
An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuild operation in Afghanistan.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, Sir Ben Kingsley, Topher Grace
Feature Film / Cate Shortland (2017)
Producer: Polly Staniford
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Starring: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt
Feature Film/ Alena Lodkina (2017)
Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men share ideals of freedom and escape from society, and soon he doesn’t want her to leave. Stuck in time, father and daughter try to mend their fractured bond, but their connection is fragile, like the strange, colourful gems he digs up from the earth.
Part of Venice Biennale Cinema + premiered at Venice Film Festival
Feature Documentary / Eddie Martin (2017)
Producers: Sarah Shaw & Eddie Martin
A candid and personal insight into the rise of world-renowned street artist Anthony Lister as he challenges conservative Australia, whilst battling his own demons.
Feature Film/ Rachel Perkins (2017)
Producers: Vincent Sheehan & David Jowsey
Jasper Jones is a coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishart, Charlie's life is changed forever.
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette, Angourice Rice
Feature Film / Garth Davis (2016)
Producers: Iain Canning, Angie Fielder & Emile Sherman
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Starring: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman
Feature Film / Rosemary Myers (2015)
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world.
Awards:
AFCA for Best Film (2015)
Seattle International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize (2015)
Feature Film / Robert Connolly (2015)
Producers: Maggie Miles & Liz Kearney
A young boy named Dylan has a passion for flight and ends up competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan. He faces distraction and hostility from a school bully, as well as his father, still grieving over the death of his mother in an automobile accident, and his chief rival, the spoiled win-at-all-costs Jason, the son of a respected golfer. He is inspired by his devil-may-care former World War II RAAF fighter-pilot grandfather, a kite hawk he feeds on his way to school and later a Japanese paper plane champion Kimi. Starring Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington & David Wenham
Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Official Selection: Berlinale 2015
Feature film / Tony Mahony, Angus Sampson (2014)
Producers: Angus Sampson, Jane Liscombe
It's 1983. A naive man with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach is detained by Australian Federal Police. Alone and afraid, 'the Mule' makes a desperate choice; to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence...literally. And by doing so becomes a "human time-bomb," dragging cops, criminals, lawyers and his mother into his impossible escapade. Inspired by true events.
Starring Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Hugo Weaving
SXSW 2014
Official Selection, London International Film Festival 2014
Feature Documentary / Damon Gameau (2014)
Producer: Nick Batzias
One man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves. THAT SUGAR FILM will forever change the way you think about ‘healthy’ food.
Winner: Best Documentary AACTA Awards
Feature film / David Michôd (2014)
Producers: David Linde, David Michôd, Liz Watts
Set in a dangerous near-future, 10 years after the collapse of the western economic system, The Rover depicts an Australia without law or order. The country's natural resources have attracted a range of dangerous opportunists, and life is cheap. When Eric has his car stolen, he embarks on a ruthless mission to track down the thieves. He soon forms an unlikely partnership with Rey , the naïve younger brother of gang member Henry who has left Rey behind in the bloody aftermath of the gang's most recent robbery. Both gripping and terrifying, The Rover's power lies in its strong relation to reality.
Starring Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson & Scoot McNairy
Official selection Cannes 2014
Plus multiple awards internationally
Feature Film / Rachel Ward (2009)
Beautiful Kate follows writer, Ned Kendall as he returns to the remote family home inhabited by his sister Sally, to say goodbye to his father.
Starring Bryan Brown, Ben Mendelsohn and Rachel Griffiths.
Feature Film / Tony Ayres (2014)
Producers: Trevor Blainey and Michael McMahon
An ex-convict is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. But his new life is challenged when his foreboding and charismatic former cell mate arrives in town.
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Alex Russell, Jessica De Gouw
