An eclectic slate of high concept screen stories
horror comedy – feature
Semi-Finalist – Animal Logic / Truant Pictures Screenplay Contest
Jaws with claws | They put ouch in your pouch
Uni grads nicknamed the Nostromo 10 escape the urban Nanny State only to discover there are plenty of rules in The Outback enforced by the OKK who have comically gruesome ways of punishing those who break them.
horror comedy – feature
Finalist – Filmmakers Factory Treatment Contest
A shady story of a colourful life lived outside the lines.
A no-hoper guy who can’t commit to anything except a killer back tattoo that is inking itself into existence, discovers his destiny as the saviour of all humanity from the evil gang of all devils of all religions – if he can stop the tattoo completing its ink job.
documentary feature
Art, dementia & staying connected to people we love.
Premiere – SBS Sep 2025 + SVOD
Won 12+ international festival awards & laurels 2022-23 + Master of Storytelling Award in 2024 judged from official selections over 5 years – awarded by the Druk International Film Festival, Ukraine
Topic – art & dementia
crime coming of age – feature
It’s not about the money.
3 mates steal an ATM they can’t open & get unwanted help from an unemployed clown living next door to their hideout, & two runaway sisters living in the attic. Then one of their criminal dads turns up & wants in on the action, but really wants to build a bridge with his son the only way he knows how – by taking the rap & going to jail for a crime he didn’t commit.
dystopic futuristic – feature / series
The Final Answer To Everything
If women ruled the world…
After the fall of patriarchy, two best girlfriends have only known a life of female domination & freedom under Femocracy, but an encounter with a male escort triggers an odyssey into subversive subcultures & outsider groups where a new revolution is brewing, testing their friendship & forcing them to examine their own ideas of gender, power & love.
black comedy mystery – series / feature
Winner 2024 Screen Illawarra
And… Pitch! contest
A career criminal & a decorated detective move into the Fallen Gums retirement village & may not be as retired as they appear.
Heartfelt, comic & irreverent, Fallen Gums explores the lives, loves and secrets of old residents, young staff and visitors who come and go from a place that is heaven to some, hell to others.
suspenseful thriller with heartwarming twist – short film
Awards x11: Best Female Director, Best Narrative Short, Official Selection, In Competition
A woman learns she’s afraid of the wrong people.
dark comedy mystery romance –
novel & series x4 1hr
Who shot Harper Black?
A woman shot in the back of the neck realizes if she had a dollar for every person who wished her dead, she’d have $42 & her life flashes before our eyes, exploring all the suspects.
crime comedy feature
Finalist – Australian Feature Film Summit [AFFS]
…and woman created God.
An accidental gang get into the most ungodly business of all sparking the last thing they wanted – success.
futuristic adventure romance – series
Humanity is the game Artificial Intelligence plays.
2 people defy the ruling AI & dare to come out from behind their avatars to try love in real life, then must choose 1 of 2 endings – disillusion or delusion – a kind of happily ever after in harsh reality or return to their fabulous fake lives behind their avatars.
black comedy romance – feature / series
Winner 2025 Screen Illawarra
And… Pitch! contest
A newlywed couple move onto a remote farm for a year-long honeymoon & weaponize their wedding gifts, learning how hard it is to keep the farm & their love alive.
adventure romcom – feature
Live Life Laugh Love
How to hang on & when to let go.
A girl uses her dead brother’s TikTok account to find the best place to scatter his ashes & not only learns about the real person she thought she knew but finds a life she never knew she could live with someone she never thought she could love.
supernatural black romcom – feature
After another bad internet mismatch, a woman escapes into an old, second-hand shop & can’t resist buying an antique vase then discovers it’s not a vase & something lives inside.
mockumentary – feature / series
He’s back. Again. And he’s changed.
Heyzoo grants one exclusive interview to a journo whose work he likes, & she takes him on shocking tour of the city & the world he left behind. Together they discover the real truth of the man who’s cruel death was turned into a religion & jewellery.
military action – feature
The only way out is to stay in.
The most dangerous rescue mission was her own.
A petty criminal is sent to a war instead of jail and discovers the legal criminal gang where she can rise as a leader unless a jealous mentor destroys her first.
Chopper Read 30 Years On
1 hour documentary / podcast
In 1992, notorious criminal Mark Brandon ‘Chopper’ Read played Russian Roulette by putting a gun in my face and pulling the trigger on national TV. The story exploded around the world again in 2012, but what really happened behind the scenes hasn’t been told – until now.
Was there a bullet in the gun?
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