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Amy

1998 - Completed

A mother brings her daughter, Amy, to the city after she overreacts to a visit from well meaning welfare officers. Amy is a deaf mute, and, despite soliciting help from all manner of specialists, it is through a young musical neighbour, Robert, that Amy breaks through her silence.

Annie's Coming Out

1984 - Completed

The story of Annie O'Farrell who was born with cerebral palsy, diagnosed at the age of three as severely intellectually disabled and committed to an institution. Thirteen years later she emerged into a new world through the love, help and determination of her grandmother and her teacher, Jessica Hathaway.

Cloudstreet

2010 - Completed

Adapted from the Tim Winton novel. From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch.

Dance Me to My Song

1998 - Completed

A love triangle? Depends on your point of view, really...

GP

1996 - Completed

Medical drama series which explores the work of an inner-suburban working-class surgery and the lives of those people most involved with it.

House Gang

1998 - Completed

An irreverent and frequently riotous look at group-living in the '90s. Three young people with intellectual disabilities are forced to share their rented house with a bankrupt builder and his vitriolic daughter. A richly wayward comedy of foiled expectations ensues.

Please Like Me

2016 - Completed

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 whats going on — just like you.

Proof

1991 - Completed

Martin, blind since birth, trusts nobody. As a young boy he had the feeling that even his mother lied to him as a punishment for being blind. As an adult he copes with his disability by taking his photographs as proof that the world he imagines is the same world that sighted people see. For years he has waited for someone he trusts to describe his photos to him, so when he meets Andy, Martin feels that he is close to knowing the truth. But Andy is only human, and Martin's jealous housekeeper, Celia, is not sure that she wants Martin to have the independence he so strongly desires.

Redfern Now series 2

2013 - Completed

REDFERN NOW is a kaleidoscopic drama series that explores the inner-city suburb and the people who inhabit it. Over six stand-alone episodes, with interlinking secondary characters, we join the households of six ordinary families whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident.

Shine

1996 - Completed

After succumbing to the pressure of his father's obsessive love and the fierce competition of the concert world as a child prodigy, David Helfgott makes a new beginning in London inspired by his passion for music and the woman he loves.

Struck by Lightning

1990 - Completed

A serious comedy set in a sheltered workshop for disabled adults.

The Black Balloon

2008 - Completed

When Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in. When his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) has to take things easy, his father Simon (Erik Thomson) puts him in charge of his autistic older brother Charlie (Luke Ford). Thomas, with the help of his new girlfriend Jackie (Gemma Ward), faces his biggest challenge yet. Charlie’s unusual antics take Thomas on an emotional journey that causes his pent-up frustrations about his brother to pour out - in a story that is funny, confronting, and ultimately heart-warming. The Black Balloon is a story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your family.

The Code series 1

2014 - Completed

Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia’s outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, THE CODE tells the story of two very different brothers who unearth information those at the highest levels of political power will kill to keep secret.

The Code series 2

2016 - Completed

The piper comes calling for Ned and Jesse Banks - paying the price will drag them headlong into the darknet and bring them face to face with the best and worst that we get up to when we think no-one's looking.

The Sum Of Us

1994 - Completed

Jeff and his Dad are an odd couple of lonely hearts. One an open-hearted widower, the other a young bachelor of a different persuasion. Both men need some romance in their otherwise boring lives and decide to look for new ways to find it. Dad enrols in a computer dating service to find his lady love. Son Jeff, sick of one night stands and noisy gay bars, wants a real commitment. But when he finds his Mr Right, what will Dad have to say!

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Amy

Annie's Coming Out

Cloudstreet

Dance Me to My Song

GP

House Gang

Please Like Me

Proof

Redfern Now series 2

Shine

Struck by Lightning

The Black Balloon

The Code series 1

The Code series 2

The Sum Of Us