FILMS
AN IDEAL WIFE
Producer
Emilia Clarke stars as Constance Lloyd, a writer intellectual ahead of her times and wife to Oscar Wilde. The film is directed by internationally acclaimed Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Good Luck To You Leo Grande, 52 Tuesdays). AN IDEAL WIFE follows Constance as she explores a personal and sexual awakening while coming to terms with Wilde’s sexuality.
International sales: Embankment Films
– PRE PRODUCTION
CARMEN
Executive Producer
A contemporary re-imagining of Bizet’s timeless opera of the same name. After crossing the border from Mexico Carmen evades the authorities with the help of disillusioned former marine Aidan. Their fraught journey to Los Angeles becomes celebration of dance and music.
Directed by Benjamin Millepied
Starring Paul Mescal, Melissa Berrera & Rossy De Palma
Premiere: Toronto International Film Festival 2022
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MOTHERS’ INSTINCT
Executive Producer
1961. Next door neighbours Alice and Celine live a blessed life; their husbands are successful and their sons are best friends. Their harmonious lives are suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
Directed by Benoit Delhomme
Starring Jessica Chastain & Anne Hathaway
– COMPLETED
KID SNOW
Executive Producer
Set in a 1970s sweat-drenched world of tent boxing in outback Western Australia, KID SNOW is a film about breaking free from the cycle of loss and regret. A washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow is finally faced with a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a rematch against the man he fought a decade prior, on a night that changed his life forever. When he meets Sunny, a young mother on the run, he is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing.
Directed by Paul Goldman
Starring Billy Howle, Tom Bateman & Pheobe Tonkin
– COMPLETED
Camus
Producer
Camus tells the story of inspirational novelist, playwright and essayist Albert Camus. His tale begins in poverty in Algeria and passes through extraordinary encounters and loves to the podium of the Nobel Prize for literature. Camus is the world’s most read French author of all time. Sincere, uncompromising, visionary, Camus is a literary force of the 20th century.
Format: 4x52mins
– DEVELOPMENT
A TASTE OF PARADISE
Producer
Set against the backdrop of the current financial crisis in Lebanon, A TASTE OF PARADISE sees Aïda, a middle-aged housewife in Beirut, break free from the traditional limits society has set for her. Her world and her self-perception are turned upside down when she responds to a casting call for extras. A debut feature for promising young auteur Cynthia Sawma, A TASTE OF PARADISE will be produced in partnership with Lebanese producer Georges Shoucair.
– DEVELOPMENT
AN OCEAN APART
Producer
AN OCEAN APART plunges us into the untold, passionate love affair between Simone de Beauvoir, French icon of 20th century feminism, and Nelson Algren, the Chicago-born bad boy of American literature. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Matt Dillon play the lead roles in this feature film produced alongside Olivier Delbosc from Curiosa and directed by Fred Garson.
– FINANCING
TYLER
TYLER & YUKI tells the true story of a young and brilliant American university student Tyler Johnson and his Japanese girlfriend Yuki, on the run from the CIA after burning dozens of empty SUVs in an eco-protest. For six years, the couple hide in the French Corsican mountains and seaside towns, their love and the extraordinarily beautiful wilderness, the only shield from a cruel world that spurns them.
– DEVELOPMENT
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TV
NO MAN’S LAND S2
Supervising Producer
Season 2 of the internationally acclaimed series NO MANS LAND, set against the backdrop of ISIS and civil war in Syria. The female battalion of the YPG, Kurdish independence forces, continues their relentless fight against the Islamic State. Through Jake, an American Jihadist, we discover how ISIS really finances itself: war profiteering and human trafficking. A co-production between Haut-Et-Court / Spiro / MashaTV. Directed by Rotem Shamir (Fauda), and starring Souheila Yacoub, James Floyd and Melanie Laurent.
Format: 10x40mins
– POST PRODUCTION
RANK
Producer
When a North Korean nuclear scientist defects to South Zoa, the Cuba of the South Pacific, Global Britain and regional powerhouse Australia, manage to land two politically ambitious and variously incompetent Ambassadors on the previously unknown island. As the world watches on with concern, Margaret Quint and Len Bollard will lead their teams of career diplomats into the jungle and… even further into the jungle. A dark and hilarious look at the non sequiturs of international diplomacy, RANK is a multi-season comedy written by former Australian ambassador Brendan Berne and British writers Charlotte and Tom Melia. StudioCanal and Screen Australia are backing the project.
Format: 10x26mins
– DEVELOPMENT
JOYEUX NOËL
Producer
JOYEUX NOEL is a multi-season comedy in French, loosely adapted from the highly successful Australian series A Moody Christmas. Every year on the 23rd of December, Antoine, who lives in French Canada, boards a plane, fearful of the family reunion that takes place at his parent’s house at Christmas. And every year, episode by episode, it just gets more insane…
Format: 6x26mins
– BIBLE AND PILOT EPISODE
