Screen Australia invests in feature development, ‘calling card’ shorts
Screen Australia has invested on the development of features Remarkable Creatures (written by Jan Sardi), A Murder of Crows, Black Echoes, Sibling and Worms.
The investment round includes three short films from the Springboard Program, meant to act as ‘calling cards’ to feature film proposals.
The features in development are:
- Black Echoes
Producers Michael Robertson, Murray Pope
Writers Shayne Armstrong, Shane Krause
A group of international tourists are taken off the beaten path to an isolated village deep in the Vietnamese countryside. They are promised a Viet Cong tunnel crawl experience that makes the famous Cu Chi Tunnels seem like a playground… Tighter, more claustrophobic, scarier – they get their money’s worth and then some.
- A Murder of Crows
Producers Murray Pope, Michael Robertson
Writers Shayne Armstrong, Shane Krause
Director Nick Robertson
Lost love brought him there, cold-blooded murder kept him there, now dark vengeance takes flight.
- Remarkable Creatures
Producer Heather Ogilvie
Co-producer Mark Gooder
Writer Jan Sardi
Together, one woman’s gift and another’s determination result in one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 19th century, transcending class and social prejudice. A revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship, based on the acclaimed novel by Tracey Chevalier.
- Siblings
Writer Cathy Randall
An ensemble comedy about five young people all connected by the same sperm donor dad and their quest to find him.
- Worm
Producers Silvana Milat, Paul Quin
Executive Producer Mike Bullen
Writer/Director Chris Cudlipp
When obese 25-year-old Nigel Higson joins a medical trial for a radical new weight loss treatment the kilos begin to fall off, but the side effects are deadly – for him and his love life.
The three teams that will commence production of a short (with a budget of up to $150,000) are:
- Bush Basher (supporting feature Dieback)
Writer/director Ben Young, Producer Ross Hutchens, Co-Producer Tenile Kennedy
- Fish and Chips (supporting feature Please Explain)
Writer/Director Anna Broinowski, Producer Leanne Tonkes and Steve Kearney
- The Wilding (supporting feature Scratch the Surface)
Writer/Director Grant Scicluna, Producer Jannine Barnes
