South Korean backpacker Sang-Woo joins his brother Shin-Woo and friends Cass and Donkey for a road trip across the Australian Outback. But, as they reach Lake Hart, in the red heart of South Australia, they cross paths with Mitch, a sociopath with ultra-violent tendencies. Unfortunately for Sang-Woo and his friends, Mitch could be the least of their worries when help arrives in the form of rouge outback Chief of Police, Anna Murray. When taken back to recover at her isolated Outback homestead, they discover Anna has been keeping alive her daughter’s soul by nurturing the swarm of flies that consumed the girl’s flesh, in the months after her accidental death.
And, to make matters worse, Anna feels she must continually feed the flies (backpacker innards) or they will fly away and leave Anna alone in her very large house in the very lonely Australian outback.
It’s as if they’ve jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire, but the been rescued by a giant, psychotic spider.
The woman, the myth, the legend!
As Slim Dusty wrote about her in one of his hit songs; the lady was a truckie. From 1960-1990, Thora ‘Toots’ Holzheimer serviced the Cape York town of Weipa via the Peninsula Development Road. The roughest, basically non-existent, track in Australia. She was a woman in a man’s world who didn’t bother teaching the boys how to do their job, she just did it better.
Toots had a dry sense of humour and wasn’t afraid to call a spade a spade.. Yet, she was universally famous for having an incredibly big heart and always putting others before herself.
A heroine like the remarkable Toots has never been seen on screen...yet.
“It’s never one moment that sinks a fishing vessel, it’s usually a series of failures and small decisions, that all add up to catastrophe…”
Short Synopsis
Angel Vitelli is constitutionally and temperamentally not made for life at sea. But, the season after her brother is taken by a shark while working the nets, she signs on as the deckhand on her father Vince’s sardine boat. They say fishing is dangerous when your mind isn’t on the job and when Angel realises her unravelling father is obsessed with a familiar shadow lurking in the deep, she’ll have to decide whether to cut him loose or go down with the ship. Is blood thicker than the depths of an angry sea?
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“It will never work, they don’t know how to use white goods...”
Short Synopsis
One of Us! is an eight part, thirty minute black comedy about a historically unscrupulous family who decide their only way to survive is a government contract to accommodate a series of refugee families in their backwater motel/petrol station.
Set in a world where an alternative to offshore detention is under trial by a new government, the tiny township/petrol station/motel of Ferris Creek will be one of the first to participate in the controversial experiment. Amongst a menagerie of outrageous motel guests, two families seeking asylum will be offered a new life in Australia’s shittest town.
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“Some of these guys have been on the ice all winter, we don’t know what they found down there…”
Short Synopsis
There’s No God Below 60 is a horror film about Clementine (Clem) Scott, an Australian historian who travels to Antarctica to investigate the unexpected remains of a group of people that pre date early European explorers. What made these people travel to the end of the earth? What were they looking for? Where did they come from? With the discovery pointing to an indigenous people most likely from Chile, Argentina, New Zealand or even Australia as the actual first man to step foot in Antartica, representatives from all around the world turn up to validate the find.
The remains are brought back to the isolated French research base Concordia and soon Clem realises an ancient spirit has been brought back too. She befriends a shy 12 year old French girl called Emilie, who has spent the ‘winter over’ with her father at the station. Emilie speaks about a new friend at the station, known as ‘Mother’. Antarctic weather sets in and strands the international expedition at the base. The ‘Mother’ grows stronger in their isolation and takes on human forms to stalk the group. As it picks them off one by one, it turns the base into a tumultuous mad house. With the lines of reality blurred, who can tell what is real and what is Mother’s Mischief?
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