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
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.
– 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
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
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
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
