Producer
When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the realities of their changing relationship to one another, and to their daughter…
Writer
Sandy Edwards, una ambiciosa geóloga, recibe el encargo indeseado de enseñar a Hiromitsu, un taciturno hombre de negocios japonés, las minas y desiertos de Pilbara, con vistas a vender a su compañía el software de geología único que ella ha estado desarrollando. Hiromitsu la toma por su chófer y le pide caminar por el remoto desierto de Pilbara, tranquilamente, sin ser consciente de los peligros. En el entorno de esta zona despoblada de Australia, estos dos extraños, que son diametralmente opuestos, se encontrarán juntos en una situación potencial de vida o muerte. Conforme se adentran en el árido paisaje del oeste de Australia, ambos dejan progresivamente atrás cuanto sabían uno del otro y de ellos mismos.
Writer
Four women bowlers on their way home to Pyramid Hill (population 550) from a tournament roll their car on a deserted road in rural Victoria. They are coping fairly well until the local men and emergency services start trying to help.
Script Editor
Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.
Writer
Questions of identity, representation and truth are explored in Sue Brooks’ 1989 short, which pairs a woman’s domestic labour and care for her children with her own memories of childhood and hopes for the future.
