IN DEVELOPMENT

Anna Donald was a fearless explorer who crossed the doctor-patient divide in a unique way. A pioneer in the field of evidence-based medicine she was determined to communicate her experience of living with advanced cancer. This Sydney-born Rhodes scholar began blogging for the British Medical Journal (From the Other Side) when she returned to Australia in 2007.

At that time Anna also began work on a cross-platform media project that combines a documentary with an interactive website. The documentary, largely shot by Anna herself, is a powerful exploration of her experience, infused throughout with her intellectual curiosity, wit and keen sense of the ridiculous. Read more »

Road Warriors takes us into the high octane world of extreme downhill skateboarding as four hot-headed adrenaline junkies undergo a grueling training regime in preparation for the World Championship. Held at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, the racecourse is world renowned as the utopia of downhill skateboarding.  

In preparation for the race of a lifetime these four ultra-competitive downhill skaters hit the road, traveling thousands of kilometers across Australiaʼs iconic landscape, in search of the most dangerous hills on the continent.

Along the way these daredevils collaborate with scientists to study and refine the science of speed and further their quest for the perfect skateboard, a secret weapon to be unleashed at the World Championships. With the world championship in their sights these four Road Warriors will stop at nothing in their quest for the ultimate rush.

Local Court views the Australian justice system through the microcosm of the Local Courts, where the vast majority of offences in New South Wales are dealt with. Here, the Magistrate is judge and jury, presiding over a wide range of cases. This is real-life courtroom drama with all the compelling elements of reality TV, but none of the artifice. There is tragedy and comedy, self-interest and compassion, winners and losers, frailty and folly: human behaviour at its best and worst.

Each day a parade of ordinary Australians come before the Magistrate hoping for a favourable decision and it’s through the eyes of the Magistrate that the audience get a rare insight into other people’s lives, from the top to the bottom of the social heap.

Dreaming, not Waking is an astounding foray into the vivid and theatrical world of dreams. An arena where imagination, psychology and science collide, unfurling secrets of the brain and fostering physiological and psychological transformation.

This pioneering series observes world-renowned dream expert and psychoanalyst Dr Robert Bosnak inhabiting the subconscious story lines and abstract images of eight diverse dreamers, all at a crisis or crossroads in life.

A Life Exposed is an intimate portrait of photographer Robyn Beeche, one of Australia’s unsung artistic visionaries. Her journey from shy Sydney secretary to celebrated 1980s London experimental high-fashion photographer and then documenter of ancient Indian culture, is a story of radical transformation. Passionate and articulate about the spiritual meaning she found for photography in her chosen home, India, Beeche shares with us a life lived to the fullest – one dedicated to spectacle, creativity, risks and fulfillment.

The Real Charlies’ Angels takes you inside the fascinating world of Sydney’s premiere female security company. Charlie’s Angels are platinum-standard operatives from every walk of life, from hospitality to the military. Whether they are pounding the streets at 5am keeping their aerobic fitness up, or sipping a mocktail at 1 in the morning protecting a rockstar from himself, the Angels are beautiful people leading lives that see-saw between deadly boring and violently interesting.

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‘Graf’ takes us to the heart of a growing international subculture where art and crime collide. The documentary charts the elaborate rituals of an underground art form and the inter-gang violence as artists fight over turf, drugs and wallspace. Through the eyes of Tugi Balog, a former archaeologist from Croatia who has become a local hero, we see the struggle to legitimise graffiti art and to keep artists out of jail. Tugi opened the May Lane Art project in 2004, using the exterior wall space of his internationally recognised image consultancy to form a gang-neutral gallery for graffiti artists. May Lane attracts artists from all over the world including Japanese graffiti artist Kngee and American Chor Boogie.

Alongside the linear documentary, ‘Graf’ also develops cross-platform content for internet and mobile phones. This will include profiles of graffiti artists, showing them involved in real time creation of original art works from start to finish and online events that link up graffiti artists from around the world to facilitate creative collaboration.