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When Penny Anderson returns home in time for its 'world famous' potato race, she's outraged that the men's first prize pays out $2,000 and the women's prize is only $200? She swings into action to right this wrong, pitting family against family, sister against sister, potato racer against potato racer.
Xmas Eve, 2014, in the shadow of the Great Pryamids of Egypt and Australian journalist, Peter Greste, is reporting from this most dangerous city on earth where bloody daily clashes between student revolutionaries and the government take place. No-one is safe. What Peter Greste doesn't know on that first night as he files his news across the globe is that he is the target and within a few hours he would be arrested, strip searched, despatched to a dungeon and accused of multiple crimes of terrorism, each one of which carried the death penalty. Welcome to Cairo.
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.
All they wanted to do was to take an afternoon out for a boozy lunch at a Chinese restaurant and plan the next day's robbery, but before the first glass of cognac has even taken effect, the restaurant staff have overheard and are making plans of their own to hijack the heist while the criminals nibble their noodles.
An Italian film student sets out to make a film about Ray Shoesmith, a stone cold Aussie hitman.
Placid Lake is a kid who follows his instincts; follows them so far they lead him to convalescing in a full body cast and pondering whether following your heart is good for your health. Deciding it isn't, he must take the road more travelled. Be normal, fit in. Even if it kills you.
Following his film about music and war in Iraq, SOUNDTRACK TO WAR, producer/director George Gittoes slices into the murky underbelly of the giant Land of the Free. RAMPAGE is another Gittoes journey into the forbidden zones: America's war in Iraq, and life in a Miami 'hood. An exploration of hiphop's musical innovations, as important as the field hollers, the blues and jazz, all of which also began in the black ghettos and went on to evolve as major music styles.
When ex-junkie, Johnny (Spit) Spitieri, flies into Australia on a false passport, he is locked up in an Immigration Detention Centre . The authorities want to know who he is, and where he's been. But so does gangster Chicka Martin, and his crooked cop mate, Arne Deviers, who are hot on Spit's trail, and the Independent Public Integrity Commission is convinced the bumbling amnesiac is really an unlikely criminal mastermind. As Johnny talks up a storm without saying anything at all, he makes new friends amongst the detainees, and teaches them his version of mateship, and what it means to be truly Australian.
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken although unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.
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