Modern Fiction in Film

Red Dog

2011 - Completed

Based on the true story of a nomadic red kelpie that won the hearts of hundreds of West Australian outback residents.

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbour, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

The Dressmaker

2015 - Completed

Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, THE DRESSMAKER is a bittersweet, comedy-drama set in early 1950s Australia. Tilly Dunnage, a beautiful and talented misfit, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to the tiny middle-of-nowhere town of Dungatar to right the wrongs of the past. Not only does she reconcile with her ailing, eccentric mother Molly and unexpectedly fall in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, but armed with her sewing machine and incredible sense of style, she transforms the women of the town and in so doing gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.

Praise

1999 - Completed

Gordon, a 25-year-old unemployed chain-smoking asthmatic, meets Cynthia, who has her own addictions, and for an explosive moment of warmth, madness, laughter, terror, Scrabble and sex, it seems they might even save each other. Based on the award-winning novel by Andrew McGahan.

Blinky Bill the Movie

2015 - Completed

An adventurous young koala embarks on a journey across the wild and dangerous Australian outback in the hope of finding his missing father, but discovers that there’s more to being a hero than meets the eye.

The Interview

1998 - Completed

Eddie Fleming is a nobody. The sort of person you'd pass in the street without a second glance. At 5am this morning he was at home, asleep. Now he sits in a darkened and locked room. Opposite Eddie is John Steele. He's asking the questions. Eddie's confused, scared and desperately in need of some answers...any answers. Why is he here? Who are these people and what do they want with him? But unknown to Eddie or Steele, there are other forces at work in this psychological drama that explores guilt, innocence and the uncertain nature of the truth.

Barracuda

2016 - Completed

When 16-year-old Danny Kelly wins a scholarship to an elite boys school, it brings him one step closer to his dream – winning gold at the Olympics. Under the charge of respected Coach Frank Torma and friendship/rivalry with teammate Martin Taylor, Danny is soon on track to Australia’s youngest swimming champion, the beloved ‘Barracuda’. But with all of Australia watching can ‘Barracuda’ live up to their expectations and realize his dream?

Candy

2006 - Completed

Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller, CANDY is the powerful story of two lovers whose intersecting lives take them on a journey of lust, addiction and self-destruction.

The Slap

2011 - Completed

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event and what follows, ricochets through a group of family and friends to shocking effect. THE SLAP is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The television adaptation of THE SLAP will be a powerful, haunting tale about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and all the passions and conflicting beliefs – that family can arouse.

He Died with a Felafel in his Hand

2001 - Completed

A seemingly unresolvable love triangle between three people doomed to chase each other through shared accommodation hell in a never-ending, unrequited daisy-chain of desire.

Looking for Alibrandi

2000 - Completed

Nonna Katia, Christina and Josie are three generations of Italian-Australian women living together in a hothouse atmosphere of love, support...and drama on an operatic scale.

Australian Rules

2002 - Completed

AUSTRALIAN RULES is based on the novel 'Deadly, Unna?' by Phillip Gwynne and set in a shabby little fishing village in outback South Australia. It is a contemporary story about two communities, the Goonyas (whites) and the Nungas (blacks), and the one thing they have in common - the local Australian Rules football team. Screened at Sundance, Edinburgh, others.

Brothers in Arms

2012 - Completed

BIKIE WARS: BROTHER IN ARMS tells the true story of two men's journey from loyalty to rivalry and its deadly consequences in the closed world of Sydney's motorcycle gangs.

Adoration

2013 - Completed

Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing’s beautiful and heart-wrenching story of two lifelong friends who fall in love with each other’s teenaged sons. An erotic tale of misguided love and a celebration of the enduring nature of female friendship.

Dead Europe

2012 - Completed

Isaac, a late twenties Greek Australian, spirals out of control when he's forced to confront his own family's cursed legacy on his first trip to Europe - with the continent's haunted past and troubled present pressing in on him.

Devil's Dust

2012 - Completed

DEVIL'S DUST is a thriller of David and Goliath proportions ripping the cloak of secrecy from a huge corporate scandal that exposes how asbestos multi-national company, James Hardie, oversaw a strategy that, by ignoring the dangers of asbestos for decades, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

Killing Time

2010 - Completed

Andrew Fraser was one of Australia's most successful criminal lawyers. His upward trajectory seemed limitless until he himself began to believe the hype. A weekend dabble in cocaine quickly spiralled into a horrendous addiction that eventually saw him sentenced to seven years in maximum security prison. Now, surrounded by serial killers and murderers, Fraser must try and look back over his life to discover just where it went so wrong.

The Broken Shore

2013 - Completed

Soon after big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted to a quiet town on the Australian coast the whole community is thrown into unrest by the murder of a local philanthropist, a man with some very disturbing secrets.

Tim Winton's The Turning

2013 - Completed

Seventeen Australian directors each create a chapter from the hauntingly beautiful novel by Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives. As characters face second thoughts and midlife regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken and lives change direction forever. This watershed film reinterprets and re-imagines the work for the screen.

The Hunter

2011 - Completed

Based on the acclaimed novel by Julia Leigh, THE HUNTER is a powerful psychological drama that tells the story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), a mercenary sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a dramatic hunt for the last Tasmanian Tiger.

The Illustrated Family Doctor

2005 - Completed

THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY DOCTOR, based on the novel by David Snell, is a dark and irreverent comedy about illness, work, death and a young man who learns to survive it all. It is a modern fable that looks at what holds us together when everything else is falling apart.

Three Dollars

2005 - Completed

Based on Elliot Perlman's award-winning novel, THREE DOLLARS tells the story of an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of 38, with a wife, a child and three dollars.

Monkey Grip

1982 - Completed

Based on Helen Garner's successful novel, the film deals with a year in the lives of Nora, her daughter Gracie and Nora's drug-addicted friend, Javo.

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Red Dog

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