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Goalpost Pictures Australia is one of Australia’s leading independent producers. Television drama credits include the acclaimed CLEVERMAN (season 1 and 2) produced with ABC TV Australia, SundanceTV (US) and Red Arrow International, starring Iain Glen, Frances O’Connor, Hunter Page-Lochard and Rob Collins. They are currently in post production on FIGHTING SEASON, a 6 x 1 hour drama series for Foxtel Australia & Sky Vision. They are also in post production on the feature film STEM with Blumhouse Productions, directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Logan Marshall-Green. Other credits include the long-running children’s series LOCKIE LEONARD, and the feature films HOLDING THE MAN, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Kerry Fox and Guy Pearce, FELONY, written by Joel Edgerton and starring Tom Wilkinson, Joel Edgerton and Jai Courtney, and the smash hit THE SAPPHIRES starring Chris O’Dowd.
ABC COMEDY SHOWROOM brings together some of Australia’s best comic talent for six new pilots, each the first episode of a brand new sitcom. ABC audiences will get to vote via ABC iview for the shows they want back as full series. The move is similar to Amazon’s pilot vetting process and UK network Channel 4’s Comedy Showcase.
Harry Lambert, a shy and gentle man, shamed by his rural Australian town into joining the armed forces as a baker in the service corps. When the bakers are thrown into the front line, Harry deserts. In countryside swarming with gendarmes, Harry barely avoids capture when Colombe Jacotot takes pity on him. Colombe is a stoic farm-wife, bowed by hard work and tragedy. Within her bare cottage, Harry and Colombe discover a love that is as powerful as it is unexpected.
This is the story of a superhero, a beagle, an amulet made of amber, and the potential that is locked inside all of us.
CANARY IN THE MINE profiles the extraordinary life of 17-year-old Jonathan Wilson-Fuller who suffers from acute chemical intolerance. Jonathan has been confined to two rooms of his family home and has not been outside for ten years. Jonathan's family, have devoted their life to the constant care of their son, whilst struggling against the medical profession to have his illness recognised as a biochemical condition, not a psychological one as has been suggested by various doctors. The film features the renowned environmentalist and friend of Jonathan Wilson-Fuller, David Suzuki. (Also known as THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE domestically in Australia - hosted by Mike Whitney)
Benjamin Millepied’s CARMEN - a drama with music and dance.
As a community struggles to co-exist with non-human creatures living amongst them, two estranged brothers find themselves at a crossroads.
Koen, still learning to truly harness his powers as the Cleverman, is the only one who can stop the bloodshed between human and Hairy. Ranged against him is the full force of government, aided by his brother Waruu, who is now empowered by Hairy strength within him, and who has created the one thing which can negate Koen’s powers, and render him mortal.
How can you understand one day without understanding the day before? At the beach one summer day, a little girl goes missing. Twenty years on, her sister finds the courage to rearrange the pieces of her broken life...and create a new beginning.
THE DJARN DJARNS is the story of a friendship between four boys, the responsibility they feel for their culture and the love a young boy has for his father.
The story of Arthur Stace, THE ETERNITY MAN runs like a song-line through 20th century Sydney history. Spanning four decades, Arthur Stace's nocturnal mission to chalk his timeless message on the city streets somehow captured its changing soul, and to this day his journey remains its quintessential urban legend.
FELONY sees a decorated police officer (Joel Edgerton) run a young cyclist off the road in his car after celebratory drinks with his colleagues for busting up a major gang. As he administers CPR, and on-duty police arrive, he changes his story about the accident which will alter all their lives.
You don’t stop fighting just because you’re home. FIGHTING SEASON is the story of a group of soldiers freshly returned from the war in Afghanistan, their families, and the unfolding mystery around their commander’s death. It’s about the bonds of mateship forged in war, of experiences so intense those ‘back home’ can’t understand and a deadly secret these men will do anything to keep.
Whilst visiting her family in Townsville for her sister Alice’s engagement festivities, tea shop owner Lia finds herself at a comedically tumultuous family luncheon with her best friend Mason and is gifted an unwelcome prophecy that she will soon meet her suitor. Her family, unsure of Lia’s ability to discern a partner for herself, decides to set her up on five blind dates. Even though her true passion and current focus lies in saving her tea-shop, a legacy left to her from her grandmother, Lia reluctantly agrees to go on these dates.
Jack is a small-time filmmaker who dreams of being a hero fireman, a soccer star, a rock guitarist when he gets older; in fact, he is 29. Kit is an unknown piano-accordion-playing artist with a green/red conscience. Kit and Jack's long-term relationship has reached an all-time low. It may or may not be reinvigorated by sharing a house with E. E is a part-time university student who is more into writing 'Pretty Ugly' - a zine about herself, what she does and who she is with - than studying. Instead of having careers, kids, influence and money Jack, Kit and E are having fun! Or are they?
THE FUTURE IS EXPENSIVE is a hilarious ode to the bizarreness of picket-fence suburbia that we're conditioned to accept as synonymous with being an 'adult'.
GO BIG is a romantic comedy about 30-year-old telemarketer Gina who is sick of being poor, sick of being ordinary, and sick of the world being run by the rich and famous. Until one day she meets a couple of guys who say it wouldn't be so bad if the rich and famous happened to be them. This is a high energy, frenetically paced tale of the underdogs taking on the big guns. (Also available as 2 x 50 min)
An examination of hatred which argues that confronting hatred on a personal level will provide insight into its eruption on a global, political level.
Based on the much loved and hugely successful memoir and stage play of the same name, HOLDING THE MAN is the warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo. Tim was an aspiring actor. John, the captain of the school football team. Their relationship blossomed and endured in the face of prejudice and adversity.
This uplifting biopic tells the story of Helen Reddy, the fiercely ambitious Australian singer behind the 1971 megahit anthem that became the rallying cry of the women’s liberation movement.
A film about a man who is blind, but can still see the films he loves. It is a story of loss and discovery and the power our memories can give things back to us. I WAS ROBERT MITCHUM is a love poem to the cinema.
In a secluded country valley something or someone is killing the animals. The four frightened residents, each scarred by life and love, form an uneasy alliance in search of things they do not know, in places they should not be.
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding, aided by her sister (Dyer), their childhood friend (Hodge) and his teenage daughter (Reid). But when Cecilia's abusive ex (Jackson-Cohen) commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
A woman who believes she has no identity, takes on the identity of one of her heroes, Cathy Freeman.
Growing up is an even hairier business!
Lockie Leonard moves to the most remote town on earth - Anjelus. This is a TOTAL LIFE DISASTER: no friends, new school...but then Lockie spots the one thing that makes it all okay. This weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen. Based on the award-winning novels of Tim Winton.
Sue Chuter is the world's No. 1 wrestling fan. She is in her fifties, lives in Melbourne, and for the last 40 years has dedicated her life to following professional wrestling. But there is more to Sue's story than meets the eye: family, sacrifice and survival. You have to be there!
An island on spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun. Top international artists. Tens of thousands of music fans from across the world. Idyllic… Until unimaginable disaster strikes.
A young actress struggles to come to terms with playing the role of Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. As the rehearsal process throws her ever deeper into the role, her own life begins to mirror her character’s dilemma. The demands of the role begin to shake the very foundations of who she is, and a transformative new beginning emerges.
For 10-year-old Madeline, it takes more than just dreaming to survive; it takes a friend.
Gail, Cynthia, Julie and Kay are sexy, black, young and talented – and they’ve never set foot outside Australia. Until, in the chaos of 1968, they’re plucked from the obscurity of a remote Aboriginal mission, branded as Australia’s answer to The Supremes, and – grasping the chance of a lifetime – dropped into the jungles of Vietnam to entertain the troops. Inspired by the hit stage-play of the same name.
In 2012, a fateful combination of weather conditions at Christmas time causes fires on Sydney's outskirts to slam straight into metropolitan Sydney. Without sufficient water to fight the blazes, fire crews are overwhelmed, and hundreds of lives are lost.
THE SELLERS follows Nick and Laurent Seller, two brothers who offer a unique service. They can restart your life. They will terminate your job, dispose of all your personal possessions, and remove you from the people you know - steps that we would never take for ourselves.
SHAMBHALA: A CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNEY follows Christine du Fresne, a 52-year-old Australlian artist and photographer who left Sydney in 1999 on a solo backpacking journey through the mountains and deserts of central Asia, inspired by a reference she read about a sacred place where heaven and earth are said to meet: Shambhala.
SYDNEY is a portrait of a city and four people who have chosen to make their home in the very centre of it surrounded by steel, concrete and endless transformations. The film draws these disparate characters together over the period of a day, drawing out their similarities and their differences and finds that for each of them Sydney is a different city.
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.
After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralysed, Grey Trace is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will “upgrade” his body. The cure - an Artificial Intelligence implant called STEM - gives Grey physical abilities beyond anything experienced and the ability to relentlessly claim vengeance against those who murdered his wife and left him for dead.
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