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.

When Martin, a South Sudanese refugee, happens upon a bull he believes is his spiritual totem, he decides to rescue it from the abattoir he works in. Once home, the bull begins to jeopardise Martin’s family’s chance at fitting in. Martin is torn between his ancient cultural identity and his family’s new life in Australia.

AWARDS

Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity Young Director Awards - Gold

Sydney Film Festival - Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director Short Film

Melbourne International Film Festival - Best Australian Short Film

Flickerfest - Best Australian Short Film

St Kilda Film Festival - Craft Award

Australian Directors Guild - Best Direction in a Short Film

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts - Best Short Film (nominated)

Australian Writers Guild - Best Short Screenplay (nominated)

Canberra Short Film Festival - National Best Film

Canberra Short Film Festival - Best Screenplay

Gympie Film Festival - Mayors Choice Award

The Lionell Gell Foundation Scholarship

Panavision Award for best Undergraduate Screenplay

Orloff Trust Award for best Screenplay

Short - RELEASED ONLINE

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.

Intermittently filmed on the same farm over a period of 18 months, Giants plays out amongst the changing landscape of the worst drought in Australia’s history.

Luke thinks the drought is breaking. So he doesn’t de-stock as planned, but instead get’s his herd ready to calve in the spring. His family are the lucky ones, they’re on good country. If Luke gets up early and works hard, they’ll be rewarded. It’s always been that way. But, the rain doesn’t come.

Luke is forced to wonder what’s happened to the good country inside his fence.

Creators - Luke Mulquiney, Emma Jackson & Eddy Bell

Short - IN FESTIVALS

In the lead up to the European launch of the Banks Cheese corporation, 8 year old Global Warming Alarmist, Raymond Banks starts a name and shame campaign against the family company. After an underwhelming response from his parents, he enlists a drug addicted model with a grudge to bear as his lawyer and lodges a case in the civil court.

With a preliminary hearing set for ten days time, the case is not expected to be successful but it certainly does raise some interesting questions about environmental liability.

Short - IN FESTIVALS

There’s No God Below 60 is a genre horror film about an indigenous 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. Clem confirms the people as Aboriginal Australian and soon she believes the spirit is a flesh eating, desert shape-shifter, known as the Mamu. Antarctic weather sets in and strands the international expedition at the base. The Mamu 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 Mamu Mischief?

Feature Film - IN DEVELOPMENT

The Caravan is a dark comedy about a two mum + two kid family who strand their caravan in a crocodile infested swamp in the middle of the remote Australian Outback.

Having withdrawn from the world during the ugly Same Sex Marriage vote, it’s soon very clear NO ONE has a clue where this dysfunctional family have got themselves into trouble. Like a modern day Swiss Family Robinson, they set themselves up and settle into their new home.

After 57 days living out of a 4 square meter box, the question is - will the crocodiles get them or will they kill each other first?

Feature - Development

CREATOR - Natasja Pijpstra