Showcases - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia

Bad River: Adventure on Australia’s Unhealthiest Water

2023 - Completed

Through a series of unconventional river adventures, Dr Beau Miles showcases the most unhealthy waterways in Australia.
Black Snow series 1

2023 - Completed

In a far North Queensland town surrounded by cane fields, a time capsule is unearthed at a local high school, plunging the town back into the past and the unsolved murder of one of its students.
Blueback

2023 - Completed

Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, BLUEBACK is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world.
Bump series 3

2022 - Completed

Bump is centered around an ambitious teenage girl, a surprise baby and the complications that ensue for two families. Set in and around an inner-city high school, Bump explores unwanted motherhood, unwelcome relatives, and unintended consequences.
Clean

2022 - Completed

CLEAN charts the journey of larger-than-life trauma cleaning business owner Sandra Pankhurst, as she begins a search for her birth mother and reinvents herself as an icon for resilience.
Colin from Accounts series 1

2022 - Completed

When Ashley and Gordon are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog, these two singles(ish), complex humans must learn to be brave enough to show their true selves, scars and all, to find real connection in an age where you can have someone at your door for meaningless sex faster than a Domino’s pizza.
Crazy Fun Park

2022 - Completed

When an introverted teen loses his best friend at an abandoned theme park, he must step into a ghoulish neverland and discover how much he’ll risk to keep the friendship alive.
Finding Yeezus

2022 - Completed

Comedians and pop culture detectives, Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos embark on a funny and action packed investigation into a cult called ‘Ascensionism’ - an Internet religion that uses video games and Kanye West (aka “Yeezus”) memes to lure in new members.
How to Please a Woman

2022 - Completed

When her all-male house cleaning business grows out of control, a mature woman must acknowledge her own appetite if she is to make a new life for herself.
It's Fine, I'm Fine

2022 - Completed

IT'S FINE, I'M FINE is a happy/sad short-form series that follows a suburban psychologist and the ups and downs of her patients as they explore love, loss, anxiety, obsession and the uncertain future ahead. It celebrates the mess and melancholy of life with elements of unexpected magical realism. In times of turmoil we seek comfort in stories of hope, humility and the human condition. The series asks, for all of humanity’s idiosyncrasies and flaws, how or why do we choose to persist and find the magic?
Latecomers

2022 - Completed

After witnessing their able bodied friends awkwardly hook up at a bar, two strangers with cerebral palsy named Frank and Sarah, become entrenched in each other’s dysfunctional lives.
Moja Vesna

2022 - Completed

After her mother’s sudden death, ten-year-old Moja becomes the unexpected grown-up of her fragmented family, trying to bring her troubled older sister Vesna and distant father together.
No Offence!

2022 - Completed

Gabriel Willie - Australia’s leading bad boy comedian - goes on a hunt for the juiciest ‘bad words’ in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, and uncovers some remarkable truths on First Nations’ languages and cultures along the way.
Salma's Season

2022 - Completed

‘Salma’s Season’ is a six-part Australian comedy series that chronicles the adventures of Salma, a 45-year-old Australian-Pakistani woman whose traditional world is turned upside-down when she rebels against her roles as a dutiful wife and doting mother to chase her dream of playing at the Australian Open grand slam tennis championship.
Still We Rise

2022 - Completed

In 1972, activists erect an Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns opposite Parliament House - fifty years on, this all archive documentary takes a bold dive into a year of protest and revolutionary change for First Nations people.
Stuff the British Stole series 1

2022 - Completed

Based on the chart-topping ABC podcast, Stuff The British Stole is a 6x30 documentary series that unfolds the history of the British Empire as a mystery. In each episode, Walkley-winning journalist Marc Fennell (Mastermind, The Feed, The Project) picks a stolen object and guides you on a global adventure through the wild, entertaining, and visually stunning story of how it got to where it sits today - and who wants it back. Marc will uncover global stories of heists gone wrong, wars, intrigue, heroism and survival. Ultimately this isn’t a series about the past, it’s about making sense of the world today. And even if you think you know this story, this series proves history is anything but clear cut.
Summer Love

2022 - Completed

SUMMER LOVE is an anthology series in which eight very different sets of people rent the same holiday house. Each of the stories is connected: through the house, through its owners, Becky and Dan, and through the unifying theme of love. Summer Love harnesses the collision between the dreamy enchantment of the beach and the clumsy reality of humans on holiday. It captures the anonymity, the possibility, the escape that we all feel - alongside the sand in the sheets. The house, hanging over the ocean, intoxicating from every angle, is the portal for love - to be discovered, or recovered, or let go.
The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson

2022 - Completed

In the Snowy Mountains, Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned. A searing reimagining of Leah Purcell's play and Henry Lawson's classic short story.
True Colours

2022 - Completed

The beauty of Indigenous art and the sometimes-devious practices in the global art market take Detective Toni Alma on an epic hunt for a killer. Spanning her small Northern Territory community and art galleries across the globe, this is a murder mystery like no other, exploring culture, community and the very human pursuit of identity and belonging.
Upright series 2

2022 - Completed

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.