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Twenty-one-year-old solo adventurer Jesse Martin decides to take a crew of four on a three-year voyage. Dubbed The Journey of Young People, they plan to make a 13-part documentary series of their experiences to help fund their adventure. Once at sea they are quickly stripped of their idealism and plunged into reality as they struggle to understand their co-dependencies and conflicting expectations of Paradise and how they should get there. Jesse leads his crew on a downward spiral finally realising a painful reality. The Journey of Young People will always be to grow up.
Shooting in a mock documentary style, ANGRY BOYS explores what it means to be a 21st century boy by putting the male of the species under the microscope.
ARSE is a four minute film about a fat slut called Trevor and the terrible revenge he extracts from his fabulous, good looking flat mates.
ART AND SOUL is a major three-part series about contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Guided by the distinguished Aboriginal curator Hetti Perkins (eldest daughter of activist Charles Perkins; Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney), ART AND SOUL is a personal journey of discovery into a world of ideas and the imagination.
The 4 x 30 minute narrative comedy is based on the relationship between prime minister Julia Gillard and her partner Tim Mathieson.
BAD BEHAVIOUR is a visceral ride into the epicentre of our teenage years where the most crucial decision of the day is to bully or be bullied. We've all been there, and we're glad we got out unscathed. Or so we thought.
When an apocalyptical tidal wave hits during the ten year reunion of an all-girls school, a group of former classmates must find a way to survive on the island peak of their high school campus.
When a police officer pursues a teenage suspect on to a busy train platform, a bystander is critically injured, and the lives of the pursued and pursuer are thrown into turmoil.
A filmmaker makes a documentary about a photographer. David Edwards has been taking photographs of naked men for the past 11 years. But in this case, who is the voyeur and who is the exhibitionist? An examination of the nature of looking.
THE FAMILY LAW gives a vivid glimpse inside the gloriously dysfunctional world of a hilarious and heart-warming Chinese- Australian family through the eyes of 14-year-old Benjamin.
After The Family Law's summer to remember, Jenny and Danny have amicably parted ways, and a wiser, more-mature Benjamin now understands that sometimes, parents just work better apart. Simple, right? Yeah ... no. In Season 2, Benjamin and the Laws are excited to explore fresh careers, fresh ambitions, even fresh romances. But as we all know, in the baking Queensland sun, nothing ever stays fresh for long …
In Series 3 of THE FAMILY LAW, the Laws confronts new realities about growing up - navigating the world of adult romance; defining what it means to become a man - with hilarity and horror in equal measure.
A short look at the distinction between reality and soap opera in the world of two junkies and a cache of stolen video equipment.
The series centres on the inner-city neighbourhood of Arcadia Heights, exploring the relationships between the residents of the Arcadia social housing tower and the people who live in the rapidly gentrifying community that surrounds it.
The Heights is a 'slice of life' serialised drama that explores the relationships, work lives and everyday challenges faced by six families living in an inner-city social housing tower and the leafy surrounding streets of Arcadia Heights.
A tale of faith, family, secrets and lies, HOUSE OF GODS takes audiences behind the walls of an imam's family and the community he leads, exploring the personal cost of power and ambition.
When a powerful amulet is broken on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival in Melbourne, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As they wreak havoc across the Vietnamese Australian community, reclaiming lost loves and repaying old grudges, a young woman who's never taken responsibility for who she could be, must finally step up and accept her destiny.
When his best mate is killed in a seemingly random attack, Detective Gary Hyde (Matt Nable) vows to bring the killers to justice. Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton), Gary uncovers a criminal underbelly of murder, identity fraud, chaos and intrigue where no-one is safe and no-one can be trusted. In a world where crime has no borders and everyone has something to hide, Gary and Claire risk it all to catch the criminals but will they lose their loved ones in the process?
A Chicago criminal screws up the heist of his life and is forced to hide out in a reef town in Far North Queensland posing as the new church Reverend.
Millions of Muslims are boarding planes for the West. So many Mexicans are crossing the border that most of LA speaks Spanish. White Zimbabweans are bailing for Europe. John Safran takes a look at the often problematic mixing of different races.
A 6 x half hour TV series about a woman whose sexual history catches up with her in the most unusual of ways.
LAID SERIES 2 is about a woman whose sexual history catches up with her in the most unusual of ways. In the second series, the world of our heroine Roo, is turned upside down when she is introduced to somebody stricken with a vaguely similar set of mysterious circumstances to the ones plaguing her - although this person is very different from Roo.
Frances O'Brien, Head Librarian, is having a hellish time. For once, it's not of her making. Frances' mother, suffering from dementia and a horrible personality, lands on the O'Brien doorstep. Adding to her woes, morale at the Middleton Interactive Learning Centre is at an all time low. To stay open, the library must run as a business and return a profit. As the staff has a hard enough time enforcing the return of a book, this latest initiative could spell the end of the library.
Alex Burchill writes the Lowdown column for struggling tabloid newspaper, the Sunday Sun. Circulation is in decline and the paper is downsizing and adapting to the brutal economic climate, and Alex's methods for unearthing stories become increasingly desperate. Each week he must come up with a shock-and-awe story for the embattled paper, and each week that shock-and-awe story somehow ruins his own life.
A 'making of' documentary about the production of four of the 30 video portraits commissioned by the ABC and the National Portrait Gallery for the 'My Favourite Australian' exhibition that was one of the opening exhibitions at the opening of the new National Portrait Gallery in December 2008. Portrait subjects featured: Ruth Lewis, Tom Slattery, Gough Whitlam and Terry Hicks. Artists/filmmakers featured: Merilyn Fairskye, Bruce Petty, Bryan Mason, Craig Walsh and Sophie Hyde.
Margaret Star breaks up with her lover and becomes a wrestler. In this funny, violent and moving 'action flick', Margaret seeks out a world where a punch in the face hurts less than an aching heart.
Simon Chan has returned to his hometown after many years training in a faraway martial arts temple. He is a born hero, defender of the weak and champion of the honest people of Cabramatta… Well, not really. The truth is Simon was at art school but he'd rather risk his life than disappoint his mother. Welcome to MAXIMUM CHOPPAGE, a painfully funny kung fu comedy where identity, family and love is a battlefield.
MUSTANGS FC is a goal kicking comedy drama about girls who are abandoning the sidelines and starting their local football club's first all female team. Against the odds, they'll stand united and overcome any challenge the club, the boys or the opposition can throw at them, all while wrestling with what it means to be a girl today. As well as playing great soccer, this girl squad have got to work out how to be a friend. A sister. A daughter. A girlfriend. And how all that may be hard or sad or ridiculously crazy or laugh out loud funny. But when you've got your team mates behind you, there's no better feeling than playing like a girl.
The Mustangs are back to kick it like girls again. But now they've got to field a team WITHOUT super striker, Ruby. Can they even win without her? And will Marnie ever lift the league cup for reals?
The merger is on like Donkey Kong but how can the Mustangs stand united, in a team that now includes the Wildcats? And how are they going to kick goals in the A league when they've also got to handle the complicated business of friendships and feminism? Strap on your shinpads, Mustangs fans, it's about to go off.
Des and Tam are members of a clean-up crew in a strange toxic wasteland. It's a lousy job, but it's the best they can get, and it may just get them what they want. When they stumble upon what may be the wasteland's last human survivor, these determined but lowly Level 7s will have to decide between saving humanity or saving themselves. ODDLANDS is a story about two unlikely heroes who manage to find a little hope in the strangest of places. The question is, what will they do when they find it?
As a thinly-veiled metaphor for copulation, a woman dances to the same song with a succession of male partners. In a series of vignettes, her frustration grows with her inability to capture the groove of the climactic choruses, primarily due to the distracting characteristics of her partners. The film is an ironic study of the pursuit of mutual orgasm.
Life is just kicking off for Josh. He's living in a share house. He's doing adult things like drinking wine and eating asparagus. And he's heading rapidly - if reluctantly - towards his twenty-first birthday. But the events of one day throw his world spinning off its axis, and Josh is forced to move back into the family home to keep an eye on his divorced mother. Inspired by the award-winning stand-up comedy of Josh Thomas, PLEASE LIKE ME is a series about growing up quickly, and about realising that your parents are not heroes, but dopes with no idea what's going on - just like you.
Each episode of the four part series will look to solve a problem that spirals into a comedic adventure.
The story begins when a group of five friends embark on a yacht trip from Brisbane to Indonesia, a chance for adventure and to enjoy a holiday at the same time. The group is just a day's sail from their destination when something appears on the horizon. Another boat. The group come to the aid of a broken-down asylum seekers' boat, leading to a tragic series of events that return to haunt them five years later.
A day in a brothel in Sydney's West.
Based on the stage play of the same name, Lally Katz, playwright, bares her soul in this part-confessional, part-stand up routine, part-travel documentary and part-romance story. A disarmingly honest journey through one woman's life, STORIES I WANT TO TELL YOU IN PERSON has everything - psychics, cowboys, curses, karaoke, crazy next-door-neighbours, Jewish boyfriends, bears, dolphins, magic and love. A surprising and heart-warming story of someone trying to have it all - at once - Lally Katz allows us to briefly peek inside her magical and astounding world.
Hapless city cop, Toby Banks, is demoted to night duty in the sleepy beachside village of Coolum, only to find himself investigating strange late night phone calls that reveal the bizarre truth of the town - a place where men turn into chickens, mermaids fall in love with locals and cats return from the grave…
When Bess Denyar, a doctor with a posh mother, an architect husband and twin 13-year-olds at a private school, finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned, but even more so when she meets her birth parents - Wayne and Julie Wheeler. If that's not enough to digest, Bess also discovers that she has siblings - Amber, Kayne and Brianna. The Wheelers head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs, and are thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost.
Don Angel is a small businessman the backbone of this country's great economy. But if that's true, it's no thanks to him. After numerous unsuccessful business ventures, now Don's one-man publishing empire is hurtling towards liquidation. His debts are mounting, his stomach's killing him, his wife just left him and he's just hired Ray Leonard as his journalist, taking his first tentative steps back into the workplace after a six-year battle with depression. It's a marriage made in heaven - at least until the Tax Office gets there.
WOODLEY is a 40-year-old child. While there is an innocence and charm to the man, and his heart is always in the right place, you can understand that living with him would require the patience of a saint. Unfortunately his lovely and long-suffering ex-wife, Mel, could take no more and, as the series begins, we find Woodley living alone and sharing custody of their 8-year-old daughter. When Mel decides to date Terry, a local psychiatrist, mayhem ensues as Woodley attempts to win her back.
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