Create NSW announced 12 new screen productions for the state via a press release on Tuesday, including three feature films and four television dramas. Productions include new works from Abe Forsythe, Partho Sen-Gupta, Tristan Roache-Turner and Kiah Roache-Turner, and David Caesar.
Feature productions include LITTLE MONSTERS, to be directed by actor-turned-director Abe Forsythe and produced by Jodi Matterson (both Down Under) with international producing partners Steve Hutensky (upcoming The Nightingale), Keith and Jess Calder (Blair Witch), and Big Little Lies producer Bruna Papandrea, who will return to local production as Executive Producer of the film.
The previously announced French-Australian co-production SLAM, the next film from writer/director Partho Sen-Gupta (Sunrise). It focuses on Ameena, a young Australian of Palestinian origin, who mysteriously disappears one night after her slam poetry performance.
There’s also an as yet untitled feature film from brothers Tristan Roache-Turner and Kiah Roache-Turner, the follow up to their film Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead. The picture will be produced by Andrew Mason (The Matrix) and eOne’s Troy Lum.
The feature documentary BEAUTIFUL MINDS: AGENTS OF CHANGE charts the journey of 76 female scientists on an epic journey to Antarctica, exposing the disturbing prevalence of gender inequality in STEM.
Of the TV productions, David Casaer’s DEAD LUCKY gets $400,000 in support. The series the lives of two feuding detectives, a share-house of international students, a pair of corrupt shop owners, a grieving widow and a gunman all collide, leaving one dead and another missing. Other productions mentioned include a TODD SAMPSON: BODY HACK 2.0, a second season of DOCTOR, DOCTOR, a fifth season of RAKE, and a documentary series called MAKING MURIEL, charting P.J. Hogan’s team as they bring his most beloved film to the stage.
It is estimated that the productions will bring $60.85 million via direct expenditure to NSW.
