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Darren 'Dazza'” Cook is the patriarch of a suburban Aussie family specialising in barbecuing, claiming that his ancestor was none other than the famed British explorer, Captain James Cook who introduced the “barbacoa” to Australia. Darren’s partner Diane secretly wishes he would pull back on their weekly Saturday BBQs in order to spend more quality time with the family. But one Saturday, Dazza accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning and the local magistrate orders him to attend a food safety course with The Butcher, an infamously demanding Scot. Together they enter an international barbecue competition in order to reclaim Dazza’s reputation. But Dazza must battle egotistical French chef, Andre Monteblanc to win BBQ glory. The steaks don’t get much higher!
With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her 'new' husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late.
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. But when the younger, faster, fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man; a man Phil gives a farewell kiss too. Phil is gay. Over the summer season, Len starts to form unexpected, confusing feelings for Phil. It’s something Len cannot accept and after the annual awards dinner, Len explodes. He finds Phil in the Club House locker room and violently attacks him. But to Len’s surprise, Phil remains loyal to the mateship pack and refuses to rat on Len about the beating in the Club House locker Room. Len stays in the Club and is free to compete in the annual Surf Lifesaving competition; a competition Len has won five times but Phil wins and Len’s defeat is final. Broken, Len refuses to die and with his best mate Meat he takes Phil on a victory bender through the seedy city in an attempt to secure an intoxicated oblivion. Arriving back at the beach where Phil won his victory the day before, Len sets upon Phil. And in a series of humiliating acts, Len finally comes face to face with a fundamental question, can he accept the truth about his sexuality and identity or will he succumb to complete oblivion.
Detective Lex De Man journeys deep into The Family, an apocalyptic sect led by the charismatic Anne Hamilton-Byrne. For two decades Anne isolated, drugged and abused a band of blonded children in a bizarre experiment to create a master race. A handful of acolytes still cling to the belief that she is a living god. Will she or the sect she founded ever be called to account?
A single woman survives the apocalypse only to be reacquainted with a blind date from hell. Based on true events. Kind of… Alex meets John on a blind date, and declares she would not see him ever again, even if he was the last man on earth! The next day Alex wakes up to find that a scientific experiment seems to have wiped out the rest of humanity. Neither of them can understand why they are the only people left on the planet, until 'the other woman' enters the scene, who not only knows why they have survived, but has a plan to bring everyone back.
In the summer of 1987, seventeen-year old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted by serial killer couple John and Evelyn White. As Vicki begins to observe the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
An aspiring musician, struggling with schizophrenia, falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to try to rescue him.
I’M WANITA is the story of a renegade country music singer and her odyssey to live out her childhood dreams to be a country and western star. Twenty-five years ago Wanita arrived in Tamworth, Australia’s country music mecca, with stars in her eyes. Today, the self-crowned "Australia's Queen Of Honky Tonk”, is still waiting for the recognition she knows she deserves. Rough-talking, hard-drinking and committed to the sound and stars of country music from a by-gone era, Wanita feels shut out by the mainstream country scene. Deciding to record an album in Nashville, Wanita assembles an unlikely team: fellow musicians Gleny Rae and Archer. As she follows in the footsteps of her Honky Tonk idols, the trio discover Wanita’s demons have travelled with them – it might be harder than they thought ensuring Wanita turns up for her date with destiny.
Contemporary Melbourne. Via various modes of surveillance we observe a young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught-up in a web of intrigue involving a bomb plot, inept anarchists, ambitious police and a corrupt politician. The duplicity of Winnie’s partner, Conrad Verloc -political activist and police informant –propels these siblings down a treacherous path, their only succour coming in the aftermath through the actions of police officer Kylie Heat.
When gigging guitarist, Noah, finds himself disillusioned and transient, he quits the band of his 90’s pop icon mentor, and returns to his mother’s home. Clashing with his mother over old wounds, Noah seeks solace elsewhere, and soon finds himself with a young, trans-man, Finn, who is a proud, Auslan-only speaker. But as the two become closer, and with no shared language to fall back on, they only risk hurting each other, as they learn to be true to themselves.
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