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Screen Australia announces $18mil in new productions

Screen Australia CEO Ruth Harley this evening announced production investment of $18million in 13 projects.

Announced at Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37 degree South Market, Harley said ““I’m thrilled to announce a compelling slate of quality screen productions that promise to engage audiences of all ages and tastes.”

The investment will trigger $85million in production over six feature films, five adult tv programs, a children’s series and a documentary series.

Feature films to receive funding include:
Pig-shooter Mick Taylor is back in Wolf Creek 2 terrorising the outback and another unfortunate backpacker.

Australian bro-mantic comedy Save Your Legs, directed by Boyd Hicklin and written by Brendan Cowell, tells the story of cricket tragic Teddy Brown who takes his local D-grade team on a tour of India.

David Pulbrook’s political drama Last Dance, produced by Antony Ginnane is a taut human story, torn from today’s headlines of love, loss and hope.

The Spierig brothers’ Jungle (produced by Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Dana Lustig), based on young Australian Yossi Ghinsberg’s experience lost in the Bolivian Jungle.

The Rocket, produced by Red Lamp Films and writen and directed by Kim Mordaunt is the story of a Laos boy, believed to be bad luck, who, to prove he’s not cursed builds a rocket to enter in the coveted Rocket Festival.

Storm Surfers 3D, by 6ixty Foot Productions in association with Firelight Productions follows big wave surfers Ross Clark Jones and Tom Carroll tracking dangerous winter swell across the Australia’s Southern Ocean.

Television to receive funding include:
A Screentime Productions, The Bikie Wars: Brother in Arms tells the true story behind the Milperra Bikie Massacre in South-western Sydney on Father’s Day, 1984.

Dripping in Chocolate by Southern Star Entertainment follows Detective Bennett O’Mara into the death of a strangled girl which leads him to a voluptuous chocolatier, Juliana Lovece.

Jack Irish by Essential Media & Entertainment, is the adaptation of the character created by crime novelist Peter Temple, produced by Ian Collie and written by Andrew Knight and Matt Cameron.

The first television show produced, directed and written by Indigenous creators, Redfern Now is a six episode series that delves into the lives of six families in Redfern.

For the Nine Network by Cordell Jigsaw Productions and Zinc Finger Films, Sundowner is the tale of two innocent men who become embroiled in one of the most famous heists in Australia’s history and their fight to clear their names.

Mako – Island of Secrets is a Jonathon M Shiff produced children’s television program  for Network Ten about a 15 year old boy, Zac who goes camping on Mako Island and is monitored by mermaids Sirena, Nixie and Lyla. After an encounter on a full moon he gains fin-like feet and the ability to control water, causing trouble to the mermaids.

For ABC, Cordell Jigsaw Productions’s Great Southern Land is a documentary that reveals Australia; its landscape, people, and wildlife from the air.

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