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The Children of the Silk Road

2008
Feature
115mins
Status: Completed

A young British journalist saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. Faced with advancing Japanese troops, he leads the 60 children on a thousand mile trek across China to a safe haven.

The Dragon Pearl

2010
Feature
93mins
Status: Completed

A young Chinese girl and a Western boy are visiting their archaeologist parents in China. The girl hears mysterious flute sounds that lead her to an eccentric temple keeper. The two young people uncover a hidden dragon who has been without its pearl of power for centuries. Has the pearl been found? Is now the time to reunite the pearl with the dragon so it can go home? Nobody believes them. Or so it seems until one of their parent's co-workers offers to help...

33 Postcards

2011
Feature
91mins
Status: Completed

The film tells the tale of Chinese orphan Mei Mei (Zhu Lin) who for ten years dreams of meeting her Australian sponsor Dean Randall (Guy Pearce). At 16, when her orphanage travels to Australia to attend a Choir Festival, Mei-Mei takes the opportunity to look him up. What she finds however is far from the idyllic life he depicted in his postcards. Initially mismatched and disconnected – the two begin a journey in search of belonging, family, redemption, love and acceptance.

The Longest Shot

2017
Feature
130mins
Status: Production

Shanghai China 1935, with resistance against Japan, Shanghai is flourishing with powerful gangsters, business leaders and corrupt Government officials who are all entangled with each other’s quest for power and ultimate control of the French Concession in Shanghai. A journey of betrayal takes our characters to unimaginable measures to eliminate one another in their quest for control, resulting in a finale that even the ringleaders of this carnage wouldn’t have expected.

7 Guardians of the Tomb

2018
Feature
90mins
Status: Completed

7 GUARDIANS OF THE TOMB revolves around a team of scientists who, while making the discovery of the century, lose a colleague in an ancient labyrinth. The group must battle their way through a swarm of deadly, man-eating funnel web spiders and discover the secret behind the arachnids’ power and intelligence – before it’s too late.

The Whistleblower

2019
Feature
120mins
Status: Completed

Mark Ma is a Chinese expat working in Australia for a local company. A fatal accident leads Mark to discover that the new technology developed by the company he works for may have tremendous safety concerns. In search of the truth, Mark investigates in the company’s conspiracies behind closed doors.

At Last

2019
Feature
100mins
Status: Completed

AT LAST is the story of a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia.

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