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 female-centred, 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 is amping up the pressure to deliver her new formula to the world, Holly must come to terms with who she has become. She is irresistible to men, but a long term relationship seems increasingly unlikely.
BRANKA - Limited comedy drama series
Branka 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.
Killing Eve meets Griselda in this half hour series designed for streaming. Branka is a charismatic exotic beauty (mid 60's but you'd never know it) who has lived the high life for several decades as the main supplier of Sydney's favourite party drug. Versace clad, our Serbian/Croatian hero has a taste for the finer things in life, including a string of younger lovers. Rocco is her latest conquest, but he wants more than her body. He wants to be her main supplier. After a heady night of sex and testing his product, Branka agrees to give him a try.
Rocco's real ambition is to take over Branca's position. When he switches the deal with another laced with Fentanyl, the results are catastrophic. A politician dies and a powerful crime lord is in a coma. She has to disappear.
When Branka checks into the New Horizons aged care centre, as a dementia patient, the staff have no idea the chaos which will follow. And Rocco has no idea how lethal this woman can be.
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 crime drama series
A middle aged Melbourne woman gets a chance to revisit her long forgotten dream of musical success when her old post punk band calls on her for a Reunion gig - a benefit for one of her bandmates.
REUNION Feature Film
Charlotte, was the bass player for Melbourne post punk group Chromozone. As the band's profile grew Charlotte seized success from the jaws of failure when her band mates nearly blew their chance with an international record company, by getting out of it before their showcase gig. Charming the A & R guy, she finds herself pushed to the front and restyled in a more sexy, commercial fashion. The power dynamics within the band become toxic, as the record company manipulates the music to a sweet smooth sound. As critics slam them for selling out, the band falls apart, blaming Charlotte for everything.
Decades later, Charlotte had closed the book on her musical past, dedicating herself to bringing up her daughter. But her grown daughter has left home, and the empty nest feels hollow, so when the keyboard player calls her to be part of fundraiser for the guitarist's medical expenses, it opens up a door to a long forgotten dream. Charlotte finds you can never step into the same river twice.
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.