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Screen Australia invests in new docos

Screen Australia has invested $2.4 million in 7 new documentaries, including the second season of Go Back to Where You Came From.

Screen Australia has invested $2.4 million in 7 new documentaries, which greenlights productions worth $6.5 million.

Amongst the documentaries on Free to Air and Pay TV are a second season of Go Back to Where You Came From. Series two will refugees in other regions and tackle other issues not broached in the first series.

There are also new documentaries for the ABC and Foxtel.

Screen Australia’s Chief Executive Ruth Harley said, “We’re constantly impressed by the level of expertise in the documentary community. Screen Australia investment ensures high-quality documentaries can continue to be supported and developed in this country.”

NATIONAL DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM:

GALLIPOLI FROM ABOVE
John Moore Productions
55 mins
Producer John Moore
Writer/Director Wain Fimeri
Broadcaster Foxtel
Sales ABC Commercial, Beyond Distribution
Synopsis: Gallipoli From Above will reveal a truth about the ANZAC landing far more significant than the myths about poor planning, wrong beaches and British generals sending the ANZACs to certain death.

LIFE AT 7
Heiress Films Pty Ltd
2 x 55 mins
Producer Jennifer Cummins
Executive Producer Daryl Karp
Writer/Director Jen Peedom
Broadcaster ABC TV
Sales ABC Commercial
Synopsis: Life at 7 continues the stories of 11 Australian children against the backdrop of the largest-ever longitudinal study on child development in this country, looking this time at peers and temperament.

RAISING THE CURTAIN
Essential Media and Entertainment Pty Ltd
3 x 52 mins
Series Producer Aline Jacques
Executive Producer Julia Peters
Writer Alec Morgan
Broadcaster STVIDO TV
Sales Essential Media
Synopsis: Raising the Curtain is a three-part documentary series that celebrates Australia’s vibrant and fascinating theatre history. From the earliest entrepreneurs, writers and performers to today’s theatrical visionaries and luminaries, this series will capture the energy and passion of live theatre that Australia has enjoyed for well over two centuries.

GENERAL DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM:

CREATIVE MINDS
Arts Bio Pty Ltd
6 x 40 mins
Producer Tristram Miall
Writer/Director Robin Hughes
Broadcaster STVDIO TV
Synopsis: Creative Minds is a six-part series of documentary interviews designed to bring an audience into intimate contact with the people who create Australian art or who contribute in a significant way to Australian cultural life. Each program will explore in depth, using the artist’s own words, memories, and insights, that person’s life story and the influences that inform his or her work.

GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM 2
Cordell Jigsaw Productions
3 x 60 mins
Executive Producers Michael Cordell, Nick Murray
Series Producer Rick McPhee
Broadcaster SBS Sales, SBS Distribution
Synopsis: Six Australians agree to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and asylum seekers by taking a confronting refugee journey themselves for 25 days.

MAKING COUPLES HAPPY
Heiress Films Pty Ltd
4 x 55 mins
Producer Jennifer Cummins
Executive Producer Daryl Karp
Director Kalita Corrigan
Series Producer/Writer Will Parry
Broadcaster ABC TV
Sales All3Media, ABC Commerical
Synopsis: Making Australia Happy put the new science of happiness to the test on eight miserable Sydneysiders and proved that by using positive psychology, mindfulness and focusing on their physical well-being, anyone could significantly increase their happiness levels in only eight weeks. Now, we’re upping the stakes. In the four-part Making Couples Happy, the experts will again put themselves on the line to see if science can help couples on the brink save their relationships.

NOTHING ON EARTH
Jerrycan Films Pty Ltd
57 mins
Producers Michael Angus, Roxana McMallan
Directors Michael Angus, Murray Fredericks
Writer Michael Angus
Broadcaster ABC TV
Sales Naked Flame Productions
Synopsis: Murray Fredericks is an award-winning artist renowned for his photographs of the vast empty space of Lake Eyre, South Australia. When he relocates his work to the Greenland Icecap – atop a melting glacier and under the solar storms of the Aurora Borealis – he finds himself alone in a landscape he’s never been, in a place he doesn’t understand, hoping this time he hasn’t taken his quest too far. What begins as an artistic odyssey becomes an adventure of extremes in one of the most breathtaking environments on Earth.

One Response

  1. I hope they can please not ruin all their programmes like last time on SBS with horrible electronic graffiti including the News after every adbreak for Go Back to Where You Come From again. The promos were great. The graffiti convinced me not to watch it. Because I see the graffiti is back these days, ugh. All it does to me is say avoid all new shows like the plague as we’ll ruin them too i.e. go away. It’s successful in my case.

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