New for 2022
Drama
Mystery Road: Origin
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It’s 1999, and Constable Jay Swan, a charismatic young officer arrives at his new station. Fresh from the city and tipped for big things, Jay might be the new copper, but he’s not new to this town. His estranged father Jack lives here, as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary.
Mystery Road: Origin will explore how a tragic death, an epic love, and the brutal reality of life as a police officer straddling two worlds, form the indelible mould out of which will emerge, Detective Jay Swan.
Proud Nyikina man Mark Coles Smith plays Young Jay leading a stellar cast including Toby Leonard Moore, Daniel Henshall, Lisa Flanagan, Clarence Ryan, Steve Bisley, Caroline Brazier, Hayley McElhinney, Dubs Yunupingu, Kelton Pell, Leonie Whyman, Salme Geransar, Nina Young and rising stars Jayden Popik, Grace Chow and Tuuli Narkle as Jay’s first love Mary.
Produced by Bunya Productions for the ABC, with major production investment from Screen Australia’s First Nations Department in association with Screenwest and the Western Australian Screen Fund supported through the State Government of WA’s Royalties for Regions program. Financed in association with Screen NSW, with All3Media International handling international sales.
Barons
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Featuring a fantastic ensemble cast, dominated by Australia’s hottest young talent, including; Sean Keenan, Jillian Nguyen, Ben O’Toole, Hunter Page-Lochard, Sophia Forrest, George Pullar, Lincoln Younes and Vivenne Awosoga.
Barons tells the story of a surf-crazed group of hippy friends who turn their backs on the world in search of their ideal patch of surfing paradise.
Little do they know that their desire for ultimate freedom and the perfect wave will take them from the beach to the boardroom, creating billion-dollar empires. But in selling their surfing dream to the world, these best friends will become fierce rivals and the question for this found family is - once you sell paradise can you ever get it back again?
2 Jons, Micanical Media and Fremantle production for ABC with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with the ABC. Financed with support from Screen NSW. Created by Michael Lawrence, John Molloy, Liz Doran. Written by Liz Doran, Matt Cameron, Marieke Hardy. Produced by John Molloy, Michael Lawrence. Producer Justin Davies. Executive Producers: Chris Oliver-Taylor, Nick Cook, Taylor Steele, Liz Doran, Jon Adgemis, Michael Gudinski. ABC Executive Producers: Brett Sleigh and Rebecca Anderson. International distribution by Fremantle.
Savage River
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Set in regional Victoria and starring Katherine Langford, the compelling six-part series Savage River is an intriguing murder mystery.
When Miki Anderson returns to her hometown in rural Victoria after 8 years in prison, she’s determined to finally move on with her life. But the close-knit community of Savage River is not about to let her forget the past that easily.
When a murder rocks the town, Miki immediately becomes the focus of everyone’s suspicion.
With the police closing in, she sets out to prove her innocence, uncovering long- buried secrets that will cast doubt on everything she thought she knew.
An Aquarius Films Production. Major principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with the ABC. Financed with support from Film Victoria. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Producers Angie Fielder & Polly Staniford. Executive Producer Miranda Culley. ABC Executive Producer Rebecca Anderson. Written by Giula Sandler, Belinda Bradley and Franz Docherty. International Distribution by Dynamic Television.
Significant Others
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Catastrophe strikes on a morning swim. Sarah, the single mother of two teenagers, vanishes beneath the waves. The mystery of her
disappearance is the catalyst that hurls her fractured family back together.
At first her siblings, Ursula, Den and Claire, fear their shambolic sister’s vanishing could be her latest stunt. They arrive to discover she has bulldozed half the house. Problem is: it’s their house too.
A house full of childhood laughter and haunted memories that start to unravel as they embark on life in the rubble, attempting to parent two kids who are desperately hoping their mum will return.
The family rages against the purgatory of not knowing their loved-one’s fate. Was Sarah drawing up plans for a bright future – or trying to erase a troubled past? There are doors this family never opens but now they must.
A story as funny as it is tragic, Significant Others is a searing account
of how five disparate souls put the pieces back together after shock loss.
This electrifying six-part psychological drama is created by Tommy Murphy for the ABC.
A Fremantle Production for the ABC. Major production investment from Screen Australia in association with the ABC and financed with support from Screen NSW. Created by Tommy Murphy. Produced by Matt Reeder. Executive Producers: Chris Oliver-Taylor and Justin Davies. ABC Executive Producers: Louise Smith and Sally Riley. Distribution by Fremantle International.
Troppo
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Set in the wilds of Far North Queensland, Troppo is the story of disgraced ex-cop Ted Conkaffey (Thomas Jane) who is begrudgingly recruited by Amanda Pharrell (Nicole Chamoun) - an eccentric private investigator with a disturbing criminal past - to investigate what emerges to be the murder of a brilliant tech pioneer.
As they battle to uncover the truth amid the tightly held secrets of Crimson Lake, their own traumatic pasts are dragged painfully into the present - tearing them apart, as each of them faces their own fight for sanity and indeed survival.
PRODUCTION CREDITS: Inspired by Candice Fox’s bestselling novel Crimson Lake, Troppo is an EQ Media Group, Beyond Entertainment and AGC Television production in association with Aperture Media Partners and Renegade Entertainment, with major production financing from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland and with support from the City of Gold Coast. Creator Yolanda Ramke. Producer Lisa Duff.
Series Producer Karl Zwicky. Executive Producers: Greg Quail, Lisa Duff, Simonne Overend (EQ Media Group); Mikael Borglund and David Ogilvy (Beyond Entertainment); Stuart Ford and Lourdes Diaz and co-EP Matt Bankston (AGC Studios); Thomas Jane and Courtney Lauren Penn (Renegade Entertainment) and Yolanda Ramke. ABC Executive Producers: Sally Riley and Andrew Gregory. ABC Deputy Head of Scripted Production Alex Baldwin. International distribution by AGC Television. In the U.S.A, Troppo will exclusively air on IMDb TV, Amazon’s free streaming service.
Here Out West
Feature Film (90 minutes)
A baby is kidnapped from a western Sydney hospital by a desperate grandmother. Her flight sets off a chain of events that brings together complete strangers over the course of one dramatic day.
Here Out West is set in the buzzing and ever-changing melting pot of
Western Sydney. It is an anthology feature film consisting of eight distinct yet interconnected stories, written by eight of Australia’s brightest new writers
- Nisrine Amine, Bina Bhattacharya, Matias Bolla, Claire Cao, Arka Das, Dee Dogan, Vonne Patiag, Tien Tran.
Here Out West is directed By Fadia Abboud, Lucy Gaffy, Julie Kalceff,
Ana Kokkinos and Leah Purcell and stars Geneviéve Lemon, De Lovan Zandy, Arka Das, Rahel Romahn, Leah Vandenberg, Christine Milo, Khoi Trinh, Christian Ravello and Jing-Xuan Chan.
A Co-Curious & Emerald Productions. Film. Major production investment from Screen Australia with Screen NSW and finance support from the ABC and Spectrum Films. Produced by Annabel Davis, Sheila Jayadev, Bree-Anne Sykes. Executive Producers: Blake Ayshford, Lyn Norfor and S. Shakthidharan.