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Some things in life are only seen in dreams. A short film about life, death and cricket.
Korean War, 1951. Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life.
After surviving a shark attack two detectives join forces to hunt the ultimate predator, the serial killer who is also hunting them.
Prostitute. Hooker. Sex Worker. Whore… Candid and seductive, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her…There's a question here for every man - and an answer for every woman. Anyone who pays is welcome - but leave your expectations at the door… sex is never black and white.
A huge live American bomb is found behind a village school in Laos, left over from the 'Secret War' over 35 years ago. Straight-talking Australian bomb disposal specialist Laith Stevens arrives to check it out. He's in the process of training a new 'big bomb' team, so reluctantly leaves it until the team is up to the task. However, rural poverty has triggered a brisk illegal trade in bomb scrap metal and the local children are out hunting for bombs.
Today is the unveiling of The Flame of Hope, a radical design by the ambitious Lily Lent. It will harness the sun's energy to create a permanent fireball so great that it can be seen from space - in theory. Lily's veneer of self-confidence threatens to crack as she deals with the day's problems. BURNING AMBITION is a comedic retelling of the Narcissus myth: does self-adoration lead to self-destruction?
DAVID STRATTON: A CINEMATIC LIFE is a compelling personal journey with David Stratton as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history.
DAVID STRATTON: A CINEMATIC LIFE is a compelling personal journey over three, one-hour episodes with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. The series will be a narrative binding together of autobiography and a journey of discovery. David will guide us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via the medium of film, to his migration to Australia as a 'ten pound pom' in 1963 and onto his present day reflections on the iconic themes that run through our cinematic legacy. All of this reflects a passionate engagement in a uniquely Australian medium. Parallel and at the heart of the series is the story of an industry whose growing pains David has witnessed over a lifetime. Alongside David, the protagonists of this history are the giants of Australian cinema - both behind the camera and in front of it.
When writer Birdie Bell meets wealthy grazier Joe on a dating app she dives fast and deep into the romance she's always known was waiting for her. But the further into it she's drawn, the more she finds herself suppressing the instinct that things don't quite add up, in favour of Joe's intoxicating promises. FAKE is a story of deception; a tense and exhilarating exploration of the illusions life lays out for us, through both the lies we are told and the lies we tell ourselves.
Rob is the 'man who has everything' (and everyone). But when 45 year old 'Mother Manchester' catches his eye on the Net, he gets more action than he bargained for. In the age of high-density living, online dating and ritualised surveillance, familiarity is often confused for intimacy. FEELING LONELY? is about watching and being watched, and the lengths to which we'll go to make a connection.
A dark action/drama that takes place in the realm of Purgatory. It reveals the struggle between Arc and Fallen angels for control over the city and its population of reborn souls. At present, darkness rules and Gabriel, the last of seven Arcs sent to bring back light, must assume a human form. In the darkest places of the human soul, this lone Arc angel's battle with his human feelings will prove as perilous as facing the Fallen.
Addresses the term Terra Nullius (Latin term meaning, 'land belonging to no one') the term used by the British Government to justify the dispossession of Aboriginal people. In the eyes of the British, Indigenous people were merely roaming the land and had no agriculture, social or religious structure. This was of course a falsehood and can be dissolved by looking at the way the land has been mapped by Aboriginal people over the last 120,000 years or more.
An Arab Australian comedy about food, families, gangsta rap and… rosewater!
Australia is at war with Japan. An untrained unit of militiamen on the Kokoda track are cut off from supply and all communications. Overwhelmed by illness and fatigue, they must make their way through the most unforgiving terrain on earth. After three days they emerge from the jungle exhausted to the point of collapse. But on learning that they will soon be overrun, they pick themselves up and return to the nightmare of battle. Based on a true story.
It's now 1972, the year of Gough Whitlam's election, free education and immigration. With new faces, a cover-up and a shocking death, the men and women of LOVE CHILD will face their greatest challenges yet.
Ern, council worker and hopeless romantic, tries to negotiate his way around the obstacles of modern dating.
According to the filmmaker, MEMORY is about the resilience of love and its power to transcend cultural boundaries. It is also about the finality of death, and the ironic moment of liberation it can give us. How does the death of someone we love affect us and move us to re-examine who we are and where we are going? But we think it also makes insightful points about death and mourning in Aboriginal and Western cultures.
Adapted from the award winning novel by Markus Zusak, Ed Kennedy's life is one of peaceful routine until playing cards inscribed with cryptic tasks start to arrive in the mail. Choosing to care, Ed makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains - who's behind Ed's mission?
Desmond's life with Maureen is about as interesting as the country town they live in. That is, until their son Rob delivers a surprise present to spice up his father's humdrum existence. But who would've known this gift could mean so much more than just an alternative to pork chops and peas...
Across six episodes, actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of Captain James Cook, the immense Pacific Ocean he charted, the nations he encountered 250 years ago, and the nations that they are today.
PLAYING FOR KEEPS is an exciting new series about the women behind the men we barrack for on the footy field. As the series unfolds there will be affairs, business opportunities, fashion footnotes, faux pas, mounting credit card bills, groupies, harassment, racism, sexism, the ever - present paparazzi and an absurd amount of fun. It's a world we've read about. Now we're allowed inside.
The Quinns are the founding family of one of the fastest growing churches in the world, U Star, based in Sydney, Australia. Espousing the belief that financial blessing is the will of God, it's a church for the Instagram age with slick hipster marketing promoting a covetable lifestyle while endorsing a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach to controversial issues. U Star is politically connected and it's raking in over $100 million per year, tax free. With its chart-topping music and 24/7 TV channel, it's an international media company that specialises in selling God. But behind closed doors, the Quinns are a dysfunctional, Machiavellian family - protecting secrets while preaching a message of faith, love and togetherness to their congregations.
Two boys, one black and one white, reinvent the Robin Hood myth in an urban, contemporary context.
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey, to prove he's not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
In the summer of 1951, the lives of three young Aboriginal men are changed forever after the mysterious death of their best friend Dusty Rose. Thirty years later, the men are brought back together again by the same secret that tore them apart.
Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all.
THE SECRET SHE KEEPS is a 6-part domestic noir series adaptation of author Michael Robotham's acclaimed novel of the same name. Everyone has an idea of what their 'perfect' life is. For Agatha, it's Meghan Shaughnessy's. These two women from two vastly different walks of life hold one thing in common - explosive secrets that could destroy everything they hold dear. Both will risk everything to conceal the truth, but their worlds are about to collide in one shocking act that cannot be undone.
Two years after Agatha Fyfle kidnapped her baby, explosive secrets will spin Meghan Shaughnessy onto a catastrophic and ultimately fatal course, while Agatha's new obsession sees them collide in a way that no one will anticipate.
THE TWELVE comes to Western Australia, to the rural township of Tunkwell - a world away from the urban city landscapes of Season One. When local landowner, Bernice Price, was found dead at the bottom of her farm well, two ex-lovers stand accused of her murder. Twelve ordinary citizens from diverse backgrounds have been plucked from the township and surrounds to decide the fate of the co-accused - was Bernice the victim of a crime of passion, a workplace accident or just bad luck? Criminal barrister, Brett Colby, SC, comes to Tunkwell to represent one of the accused, Patrick Harrows, while Meredith Nelson-Moore, SC, defends the other accused, Sasha Price. But Colby and Meredith have more in common than just the trial, and the pair's relationship is put to the test both professionally and personally. Over eight episodes we explore the lives and loves of our jury members and legal team, as this unique trial unfolds over six extraordinary weeks. But can our Twelve really be impartial when they come from such a tight rural community? One thing is for certain - by the time the verdict is reached, all will be irrevocably changed.
Marla is a Ngarrunga woman who lives in Kings Cross. She's seen the seedier side of life. Sunfly is a travelling cowboy from the Kimberley. Can their feelings for each other override their cultural differences?
BRIDGET JONES kept a diary, but LILY WOODWARD has a whole rulebook for life. It's just not quite panning out as written - yet. THE WRONG GIRL is an urban rom-com brimful of exuberance, optimism and cheeky energy. Our hero Lily is a modern woman caught between two guys - one too good to be true and the other so wrong he might just be Mr Right…
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