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CHINA DOLLS is a stylish and moving portrayal of gay Asian-Australians and their often difficult journeys to self-acceptance. In the gay scene, the young and beautiful possess the greatest social power. But what is considered desirable is also influenced by race. From Calvin Klein ads to gay erotica, the dominant image is Caucasian. Asian men are either invisible, or portrayed as soft or 'feminine'. CHINA DOLLS probes the uncomfortable reality of racial stereotyping and discrimination in the gay world through interviews with Asian men who talk frankly, and often humorously, of their experiences of living within a 'double minority'.
1988. Thirty-five years after Fred Schepisi’s film The Devil’s Playground, Tom Allen, now a psychiatrist, becomes a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.
Penned by Australia’s most exciting writers, EROTIC STORIES is a bold new anthology series that changes the narrative about what sex and intimacy look like today. Each erotically charged episode is driven by characters not traditionally seen as sexual leads. Be it queer, trans, disabled, middle-aged and/or people of colour, the series spotlights diverse perspectives, with a non-judgemental attitude and a shameless lust for all things erotic - no matter how unconventional. It tells frank but uplifting stories about our need for physical and emotional connection. And it challenges us to see that intimacy is both personal and universal. Together, EROTIC STORIES is a show that is guaranteed to spark conversation - leaving us richer, wiser (and definitely hornier).
Nadezhda Ivanova, a very famous Bulgarian folksinger writes to a woman, a stranger, in Sydney Australia. She wants sponsorship to bring her raw and ancient singing to the West. Maria (the stranger) does not want a 'singing slav' in her inner-city life. She has perfected the art of self interest. East meets West with some anxiety...
From dawn one morning till dawn the next a man in deep despair tries to end his life by jumping off the Gap, a cliff at the mouth of Sydney Harbour. This majestic entrance to the city is yet a place of unutterable sadness where people go to die. Two cops are sent to talk him down. The man outdoes them in his dignity and his courage.
GIRL IN A MIRROR documents the work of 1970s photographer Carol Jerrems, in a life tragically cut short. Drawing from hundreds of her photographs, the film traces the passionate and exuberant course that Jerrems took through this turbulent decade.
A series of intertwining vignettes that introduce us to a variety of passengers waiting in a departure lounge.
Lambs of God follows the journey of three Catholic nuns, Sisters Iphigenia, Margarita and Carla, who are the last remaining members of the enclosed order of St Agnes. They have forgotten the world outside until a young priest, Father Ignatius, pushes his way through the undergrowth in the hope of finding prime real estate. What unfolds is a psychological and frightening game of survival; a thrilling ride in which the nuns become criminals and Father Ignatius is forced to confront his own personal weaknesses.
The tender story of the relationship between 11-year-old Lou and her grandfather. Not long after Lou’s father walks out of her life, her grandfather crashes in. But when Doyle comes to stay Lou discovers, against all her expectations, the healing power of love.
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?
A young Iraqi-Australian woman tears apart her family and defies her community to chase her dream of becoming an elite women’s boxing trainer in THE ROPES, a drama set in Sydney's western suburbs.
PARKLANDS explores the suburban dreaming of 1960s and contemporary Australia. Rosie returns to Adelaide following the death of her policeman father Cliff. As she investigates her father's life, she is drawn to the places, shadows and textures of her childhood.
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.
In an effort to get her as far away from London as possible, and at the same time, hoping to prevent Australia from leaving the Commonwealth, Georgie’s parents send her off to Australia to become their Queen, along with her new staff – Director of Communications Zoe, Private Secretary Bernard, Head of Security Officer Marc, Personal Assistant Matthew, Lady In Waiting Anabel, Master of the Household Weiwei.
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.
SHOOTING THE BREEZE deals with the infectious nature of violence and the degradation of innocent witnesses. Greta and Ritchie's unseen neighbours fight in the next-door apartment. The violence seeps in through the wall and the window. Greta is driven to help, Richie is driven to mind his own business... and we are plummeted into the tangle of relationships and the implicit support demanded between lovers. The stress catapults Greta and Ritchie into their own violence.
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event and what follows, ricochets through a group of family and friends to shocking effect. THE SLAP is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The television adaptation of THE SLAP will be a powerful, haunting tale about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and all the passions and conflicting beliefs – that family can arouse.
A bunch of Florence Nightingales come home to nurse their mum.
Two sisters dream of a life beyond suburban Adelaide. Change beckons when Lou, an American beat poet, unexpectedly steps into their world.
In 1989, Julian Assange and two friends formed the 'International Subversives'. Using early home computers and calling themselves 'white hat hackers' - who look but don't steal - they broke into the world's most powerful organisations. Young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the FBI, a major threat to national security, they were chased through the electronic underground of Melbourne.
A down-and-out musician has to drive a piano from one side of Australia to the other in order to honour his mother’s dying wish. That’s the easy bit. His real problems begin when he’s joined by a fugitive teenage girl who soon proves to be even heavier baggage than the piano. What are the odds they’ll all make it out of the desert intact?
Trading the desert for the steamy tropics of Far North Queensland, Lucky and Meg hit the road - and the river - on a mission to find Meg's mum. Trouble is, Meg's mum has disappeared into the rainforest.
John Grant is returning to Sydney after a year teaching at one-classroom school in the Outback. Shortly after hitting the road he collides with a kangaroo and finds himself marooned in a small mining town, awaiting repairs on his car. With little to do but drink beer, John is seduced into a raucous, illegal gambling game. After a short exhilarating winning streak he loses everything. This triggers a dangerous series of events that render John a broken and desperate man.
After renting out their vacation home online, faltering newlyweds Cain and Lina undergo a terrifying ordeal that strikes at the heart of their innermost secrets. A piercing dissection of shame, trust and surveillance in our most intimate of spaces.
The story of a man who loses his son in completely inexplicable circumstances. In his grief, Max builds a mechanical model of the child of the pieces of his past, gradually working more and more of himself and his life into the model, so making it more and more 'human'.
You forget. You become confused. You lose motor skills. You lose your life. YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS is an intimate portrayal of the Alzheimer journey. An exploration of what is known and unknown about the brain and how it changes in the course of the disease. Looks at the shrinking world through the eyes of sufferers.
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