William McInnes

Ten years after Black Saturday, the traumatised survivors reveal how they found the strength to recover from the worst bushfire disaster in Australian history.

En 1969 el doctor Bertram Wainer es llamado para ayudar a una mujer muriendo por un aborto ilegal que lo lleva a un mundo oscuro de criminales; doctores paranoicos que operan ilegalmente y mujeres desesperadas.

William McInnes (Look Both Ways, Sea Change) is the can-do barbecue dad of the title in Brendan Donovan’s affectionate comedy-drama. He plays a Howick cleaning contractor, whose hopes and dreams include success in local body politics. But his real passion is kart-racing and he’s grooming his teenage sons, 17-year-old Marc and 14-year-old Ed (real-life brothers Josh and William McKenzie), as future motorsport heroes. He’s borrowed so much money to make it all happen that it stretches the love of his wife Gail (Robyn Malcolm of Outrageous Fortune fame) to breaking point. When the boys collide on the track, Gazza’s world is turned upside down, causing a crisis that tears at them all — forcing him to fight to keep his dreams afloat, and his family together.

Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.

A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.

McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.

The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is considered one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis is retracing the gruelling experience, with the same meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically-and mentally-as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.

An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel.

1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.

This film tells the story of Australia's most neglected bestselling author, Arthur Upfield. Shot on location in the Outback, London and Paris and using rare archival footage, it explores how Upfield came to create the unique and highly controversial fictional hero, Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte.

This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.

Una sección de soldados australianos ha sido enviada a patrullar la senda de Kokoda – una crítica línea que separa a Australia de la invasión. Después de ser bombardeados por los japoneses, los hombres quedan sin abastecimiento. Aislados en la jungla tras las líneas enemigas, deberán reagruparse con el resto de las tropas australianas a través de una de las regiones más inhóspitas de la tierra. Inspirada en la historia real de Kokoda, esta película evoca la terrorífica y visceral realidad de la guerra y devastadores efectos en la humanidad.

Sophie, una ilustradora de prestigio, está angustiada porque tiene que entregar un trabajo y se aproxima la fecha. Además, su matrimonio tampoco funciona y se entera de que su marido le engaña con una compañera. Inquietante drama con toques de thriller que gira en torno de una mujer, interpretada por Susan Sarandon, que es una madre cariñosa y trabajadora, cuya vida cambia cuando empieza a notar que pasan cosas extrañas e inexplicables en su casa

During one unusually hot weekend, four friends struggle after hearing some life-changing news.

Ciudad de Sidney, en el año 1969. En esa época los bajos fondos eran algo atractivo, fresco, un mundo de ensueño para vividores y policías corruptos. La multitud de soldados americanos llegados hasta tierras australianas, procedentes de la guerra de Vietnam, habían convertido la ciudad en un gigantesco lupanar. En ese ambiente se moverá como pez en el agua nuestro protagonista: un hombre casado, acostumbrado a perseguir chicas, arriesgar en el juego y vivir al otro lado de la ley. Sin embargo la bonanza de la mafia local hará que los capos del hampa de Chicago decidan apropiarse de una parte de ese suculento pastel. Por eso hasta la ciudad se trasladará uno de sus secuaces más peligrosos.

Two-part UK drama set in London and Sydney spanning seven years. When Sam and Nicky's six year old son is diagnosed with leukaemia and a perfect blood match is all that can save him, Sam decides now is the right time to trace his real father - back to Sydney where she picked up a violent criminal while backpacking

Adam looks back, with affection, to his childhood in a small suburban house, with his mum, his crippled and alcoholic dad, their bird Jeanette, and his older brother, who wears an eye patch, has asthma, and gets blamed for things even when he's not around. The boys are boon companions, swiping money from their napping dad and heading for Ruby's store to buy lollies. They draw, collect cans, and watch the brother's pet lizard eat flies (occasionally giving it a snail). Adam's brother has a collection of cigarette butts, and he has a dream: to be an acrobat like their father was before his accident. Can dreams come true?

Adam tells us the story of an older cousin, who had cerebral palsy. Adam would go over to play, and they'd dress as superheroes, jump off the shed, and run about the the street with an old shopping trolley. Adam explains his cousin's wayward left arm, his strong right one, his aunt's understanding of her son's rages ("bake a cake," she'd tell him), and the boy's love of swimming. On Adam's eighth birthday, the cousins are separated by tragedy; it's left to Adam to wonder about his cousin, and if he still smells of licorice.

A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his beloved uncle.

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

On 1 December 1942, a US bomber called Little Eva was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. The plane hit a tropical storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in the southeast corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Australia's far north. The events that followed were recorded both in the journal of an American survivor and in a spectacular corroboree created by the Yanyuwa people who searched for Little Eva and her crew.

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a campaign by a group of non-anglo students to form a soccer club in a school where the racist PE teacher only supports Australian Rules Football, Christina starts falling in love with aspiring soccer player, 17 year old Nick (Alex Dimitriades). The ensuing affair forces Christina to challenge herself, her family and the culture she lives in. Managing to effectively combine comedy with a refreshing examination of contemporary ethnic relationships in Australia, beautifully acted by a young cast, and insightfully scripted.

In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts, a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium.

Ann (Kerry Walker) cleans for a living. She confronts problems like a vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt from the carpet. She shares everything she has with her two moody children (Noah Taylor, Sarah Hooper) and her equally erratic neighbours. She also shares everything her rich and constantly out-of-town employers have. While Ann vacuums her clients’ penthouses, her friends enjoy the million dollar views, luxury appointments, home gyms, cocktails by the pool - the things they have always wanted, but could never in their wildest dreams afford.

Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.

Wendy’s bored with everyday life…But Jake’s about to take her from Mills and Boon to Champagne and Roses.