14 03 2018 - Media release $7.4 million for nine projects across film, TV and online
Rachel Griffiths in Barracuda / Photo credit Ben King. Guy Pearce in Jack Irish: Black Tide / Photo credit Lachlan Moore
Screen Australia has announced a slate of production funding investments including directorial debuts from acclaimed actors Rachel Griffiths and Guy Pearce, as well as new TV series for SBS, Foxtel, Channel Seven and one for Network Ten led by The Project co-host Peter Helliar. In total $7.4 million in funding has been allocated through the feature film, television and online production programs.
Ride Like a Girl is the second Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories project and first feature to progress from development through to production, following online series Sheilas which was confirmed last year, said Sally Caplan, Head of Production at Screen Australia. We are incredibly excited to see it helmed by one of Australia's most iconic actors Rachel Griffiths who, along with Guy Pearce and his passion project Poor Boy, is making the move into directing features for the first time. It is also fantastic to see four brand new scripted television shows commissioned by SBS, Channel Seven, Network Ten and Foxtel.
The funded feature film projects are:
The Film Company and Magdalene Media's Ride Like A Girl, produced by Richard Keddie and Rachel Griffiths who will also direct this biopic of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. Written by Andrew Knight and Elise McCredie, with confirmed casting of Teresa Palmer and Sam Neill. This film has also been financed by Film Victoria, and will commence production next month.
Wildheart Films' Poor Boy produced by Al Clark and Andrena Finlay. Directed by and starring Guy Pearce with a script by Matt Cameron, the paranormal mystery drama tells the story of a little boy who announces to his family on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny a grown man who died seven years earlier. Film Victoria have also financed the film, which is slated to commence production in August. In addition to Pearce and Carice van Houten, attached cast includes Frances O'Connor, Richard Roxburgh, Callan Mulvey and Sarah Peirse.
Thriller/drama Undertow from Emerald Films also received completion funding.
The funded television projects are:
Princess Pictures' and Pablo Pictures' eight-part comedy drama How To Stay Married for Network Ten, starring Logie award-winning actress Lisa McCune and comedian Peter Helliar, who has also co-written the script. It tells the story of Greg (Helliar) and Em (McCune) whose 13-year marriage is put to the test by a new job, an unexpected house guest, a redundancy and an experimental sex move. Produced by Jess Leslie, executive produced by Andrea Denholm and Emma Fitzsimons, and directed by Natalie Bailey from a script by Helliar and Nick Musgrove. This series has also been financed by Film Victoria.
Lingo Pictures' mystery thriller Lambs of God for Foxtel, about three eccentric secluded nuns who live on a remote island forgotten by time and the Church until a priest unwittingly happens upon them. The two-part drama is produced by Jason Stephens, Sarah Lambert and Elisa Argenzio; executive produced by Helen Bowden, Mark Fennessy and Carl Fennessy; directed by Jeffrey Walker, and written by Sarah Lambert. The mini-series has also been financed by Create NSW and Screen Tasmania.
Screentime's comedy Orange is the New Brown for Channel Seven a six-part series that will reflect contemporary Australian life using one-off sketches, original and recurring characters and TV parodies. Produced by Jack Kain, executive produced by Johnny Lowry, directed by Hayden Guppy and written by Nazeem Hussain, Joel Slack-Smith, Sophie Braham, Richard Thorp, Penny Greenhalgh and Heidi Regan. This series has also been financed by Create NSW and is currently in production.
Lingo Pictures' drama The Ropes for SBS, a four-part miniseries set in Sydney's Western suburbs that follows a young Iraqi-Australian woman chasing her dream to become an elite boxing trainer. Produced by Helen Bowden and Courtney Wise, executive produced by Jason Stephens, directed by Shannon Murphy, and written by Tamara Asmar, Adam Todd and Ian Meadows with additional funding from Create NSW.
The funded online projects are:
Lynette Wallworth's AR/VR project Awavena created in collaboration with the Yawanawa, an Indigenous Amazonian people. The project had its international premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier program in January, and uses hybrid technology to allow the viewer to enter the spirit world as seen by the Yawanawa elder shaman Tata and his disciple Hushahu, their first female shaman. Written and directed by Wallworth who also produces alongside Nicole Newnham, it is co-produced by Tashka Yawanawa and Laura Yawanawa, and executive produced by Sandy Herz, Marcie Jastrow, Gigi Pritzker and Nico Daswani. It has also received additional funding from Create NSW.
A second season of Deadrock Media's fantasy action thriller Skinford Skinford Chapter Two. Season one of the Blackpills-commissioned series premiered on SBS on Demand in Australia in late 2017. The second season focuses on a small town crook and an immortal woman who must cure the curse of her eternal life to end a violent turf war that threatens to destroy them both. Produced by Christopher Seeto and Tom Pope, executive produced by Enzo Tedeschi, Antoine Disle, Tess Meyer and George Kacevski, and written and directed by Nik Kacevski with additional funding from Create NSW.
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14 03 2018 - Media release $7.4 million for nine projects across film, TV and online 
