Latest Production Funding Approvals - 16 June 2009

 

Features | Documentaries | TV Drama | Indigenous

FEATURES

 

TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN
Ambience Entertainment/Omnilab Media

Producer	Andrew Mason
Executive Producers	Christopher Mapp, Matthew Street and David Whealy
Writer/Director	Stuart Beattie
Sales and Distribution	Paramount
Synopsis	When their country is invaded and families taken, eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight.

WOG BOY 2: KINGS OF MYKONOS
See-Saw Films Pty Ltd and G.O. Films Pty Ltd

Producers	Emile Sherman and Nick Giannopoulos
Executive Producers	Iain Canning and Andrew Penney
Co-Producer	Sally Ayre Smith
Writers	Chris Anastassiades and Nick Giannopoulos
Director	Peter Andrikidis
Cast	Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo
Sales and Distribution	Arclight Films International and Transmission/Paramount
Synopsis	Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis inherits a beach on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he’s never met.

UNINHABITED
Uninhabited Films Pty Ltd

Producers	Bill Bennett, Silvana Milat, Paul Quin
Writer/Director	Bill Bennett
Sales and Distribution	SC Films International Limited and Polyphony Entertainment Pty Ltd
Synopsis	A young couple goes to a remote and deserted coral island for a holiday. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when they discover that the island is not uninhabited after all.

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MISSING WATER
Imaginefly Pty Ltd

Producer/Writer/Director	Khoa Do
Synopsis	Missing Water tells the story of four refugees fleeing Vietnam in 1980, but in a most unusual way. The present melds with the past as a quiet factory worker recalls the time she took to the sea in a creaky riverboat in search of a better life. But what she experienced on that journey haunts her still...

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
Noise and Light Pty Ltd

Producer	Maggie Miles
Writers	Jonathan auf der Heide, Oscar Redding
Director	Jonathan auf der Heide
Sales and Distribution	Bavaria Film International and Madman
Synopsis	Based on the true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict, whose confessions were so confronting and horrific they were not at first believed.