$1.4m for Victorian projects
Film Victoria will invest $1,389,871 on three documentaries, three TV series and two features.
Beneficiaries include an apocalyptic film produced by Antony Ginnane, a factual/fiction hybried by Amiel Courtin-Wilson, and a mini-series produced by Nicole Minchin (The Wedding Party, Lowdown).
The projects are:
Features
LAST DANCE, FG Film Productions: Antony I Ginnane, Producer; Terence Hammond, Writer; David Pulbrook, Director. Past and present collide in this fiction feature, when holocaust survivor Ulah Lippmann is held hostage by Sadiq Mohammed, a Palestinian terrorist on the run after a Melbourne bombing.
HAIL, Flood Projects: Michael Cody, Producer; Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Producer/Writer/Director. This hybrid factual/fiction feature explores the darkness that befalls a man who has the love of his life ripped away from him.
TV
WOODLEY, Bucket Tree: Simon Wright and Andy Walker, Producers; Frank Woodley, Writer/Producer. A visual comedy mini-series about a hapless 40-year-old divorcee who shares custody of his eight-year-old daughter and is still in love with his ex-wife.
TWENTYSOMETHING, High Wire Films: Nicole Minchin, Producer; Jess Harris, Writer; Paul Currie, Director. This fiction mini-series looks at what happens when a pair that never went to uni, never had a clear talent and never had the drive to grow up, suddenly get the urge to conform and search for their big break.
MOONSURFERS, Mumbo Jumbo Animation: Cecile Blackman, Producer; Philip Dalkin, Writer; Peter Viska, Director. Combining a unique retro‐futuristic style with hip surf music, this children’s television series follows a group of diverse, interplanetary teens who live on Moonport, a lunar stop‐over for intergalactic travellers.
Documentaries
KAPYONG, Kapyong Pty Ltd: Dennis Smith, Writer/Director. A documentary about a forgotten battle in the forgotten war, in which a small band of Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders in Korea stopped the Chinese Army in its tracks.
MAD AS HELL: THE PETER FINCH STORY, Lowlands Media: Robert de Young, Producer/Writer/Director.This documentary maps the life and work of Australian actor Peter Finch as seen through the eyes of actors, managers, producers, and his family; and the relationship between Australia and Britain in the 1940s and 1950s through the lens of Finch’s career.
UTOPIA GIRLS, Renegade Films: Lucy Maclaren, Producer; Alex West, Writer/Producer; Jasmin Tarasin, Director. Historian Clare Wright investigates how and why Australian women fought successfully to become the first in the world to attain equal political rights.
