A young British entomologist, creating a scent for a luxe Australian cosmetics company, tests her formula on herself, triggering her transformation into a sexually voracious hybrid Mantis creature.
MANTIS - Feature Film
A contemporary reworking of the classic creature feature, Mantis is a darkly comic horror feature project intended for streaming and theatrical. Set in a neon drenched nocturnal urban Australian environment which pulses with teeming insect life, Mantis explores the meaning of 'our true nature’. Young, brilliant entomologist, Holly, discovers that life as a predatory hybrid Mantis who eats the heads of her spent lovers, has its up side. It's not revenge porn.... it's just that a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
As her controlling ex-husband stalks her all the way from the UK to Australia, with the aim of derailing her ascent, and the lab which employs her pressuring her to deliver her new formula, Holly must come to terms with who she has become. She is irresistible to men, but a long term relationship seems increasingly unlikely.
Limited comedy drama series
Branka Pavlovic is the supplier of cocaine to Sydney's elite party scene. When her new lover laces her supply with Fentanyl and a politician dies, she fakes dementia to hide out in an aged care home and plot her revenge.
A pitch black returning comedy crime drama. The glitzy, chaotic glamour of Gold Coast collides with the cloistered world of aged care, in this outrageous tale of revenge, sex, drugs, and Versace.
Targeted at adult audiences drawn to darkly humorous, transgressive stories. Get Branka is a wildly unexpected collision of worlds - heightened
but with a beating heart, where the humour is always underpinned by authentic characters and high tension stakes.
Imagine if Killing Eve’s Vilanelle hit 65 and went full Balkan matriarch. Same killer wardrobe. Same disregard for men. Even more ferocious appetite for life…and revenge.
When a dying friend's benefit gig drags her back to the post-punk band that nearly destroyed her 36 years ago, a former musician gets a chance for a second chapter. This times it’s on her own terms.
Abby Taylor, 57, by every outward measure, has the near perfect life. She’s a successful commercial photographer and single mother to a talented cellist daughter, with no trace of her past as bass player/singer for Chromozone - a Melbourne post-punk band that nearly broke through in the early '80s before spectacularly self-destructing, leaving a trail of bitterness and resentment.
Then an invitation to a glittering awards night honouring 50 years of Australian Women in Rock opens a door she’s kept shut for over three decades. Old friends, rivals and enemies resurface. So does her old band Chromozone, reforming for a benefit gig for their one-time roadie, and Abby’s old mate “Little Mark”, now dying of liver cancer.
What starts as an exciting chance to revisit the past, soon reopens old wounds, past betrayals, and the pain of a creative vision thwarted decades ago. Her passion for music reignites, however she discovers she has no interest in the musical nostalgia of being twenty again. Abby's on the road to finding her voice. But first, she has to make peace with herself for having failed, as a young woman, to successfully navigate the treacherous male-dominated music industry.
Standing on the threshold of a new chapter, ultimately it’s her passion for music that wins out. With her daughter Cordelia's encouragement lighting the way, and Ben, Chromozone’s drummer and her oldest supporter, urging her on, Abby stops running. When she walks onstage for the first time in 36 years, it's on her own terms, at last.
Reunion weaves between the iconic, gritty, Melbourne post-punk scene of the 80’s, and Abby’s current complicated world, bookended by her traumatic teenage introduction to the sexually charged, misogynistic Aussie music scene. A mordant, wry, and intimate drama about the enduring creative spirit - and the price, and reward, of a genuine second chapter. Reunion is the story of how one woman reconciles the past and embraces her future.
REUNION Feature Film
The Widow is a 6 x one hour limited drama series intended for an international audience. A character-driven neo-noir, crime-action-thriller, with a powerful emotional core set in Melbourne, Australia in 1964. Inspired by dramatic real-life events - the so-called ‘Market Wars’ - a bloody battle of opposing factions within the Calabrian mafia (the ’Ndrangheta) to seize control of the lucrative produce industry.
The 1/2 hour proof of concept trailer for The Widow, has won 218 International awards.
A Sicilian widow crawls from a shallow grave, barely alive, craving vengeance. It’s a dish served cold as she wages a merciless war on her lover and his mobster cohorts who put her there.
The Widow
Limited drama series
A 6-part limited series drama. A gritty, character-driven, crime thriller, set against the real-life tumultuous events of the 1963 Saigon coup.
A dizzying mix of historical fact and searing pulp fiction. Inspired by exotic-set classics such as Casablanca, The Third Man and The Quiet American. With a nod to the bold visual style of Asian crime cinema and American neo-noir films of the 1970s, Saigon ‘63 - Violent City is a compelling multi-cultural, multi-lingual, period production. Aimed at global, discerning adult audiences looking for a sophisticated, gripping, multilayered dramatic series.
Saigon 1963: amidst the bloody chaos of local crime gang war, Vietcong insurgent attacks, US mafia infiltration, and the CIA orchestrating the downfall of the corrupt, tyrannical government, a young American-Vietnamese bar manager fights for his life as the brutal violence tearing the county apart becomes personal, when he lands on an assassin’s hit list for a crime he didn't commit.