Sue Smith

Películas

Al encuentro de Mr. Banks
Writer
Producción centrada en la historia real de cómo Walt Disney estuvo catorce años cortejando a la escritora australiana P.L. Travers para que le cediera los derechos cinematográficos de su primera y más popular novela, 'Mary Poppins', y que finalmente fue llevada a la gran pantalla en 1964 en el clásico filme protagonizado por Julie Andrews.
Mabo
Screenplay
Mabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Number 13
Producer
In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition. During the night, noise conspires to keep him awake and the historian is astonished to come face to face with door number 13. Continuing his work, a history of a reformation era witchcraft scandal emerges. The nocturnal disturbances escalate, leading Anderson with no choice but to open the door to room number 13...
Peaches
Screenplay
Esta es la historia de la adolescente Steph, que es criada por su tía Jude después de que su madre embarazada y su padre vietnamita fueran muertos en un accidente de coche. La llegada de el diario de su difunta madre revela los secretos sexuales de Jude y el capataz Alan, lo que permite a Steph reinventar su visión del mundo.
The Road from Coorain
Screenplay
A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
Dead Letter Office
Script Editor
After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
Hammers Over the Anvil
Script Editor
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
The Leaving of Liverpool
Writer
A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.