Jeremy Rouse

After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

An escaped asylum seeker encounters an Aboriginal man on a remote Australian beach. She must decide whether to trust him or  journey on alone.

Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.

This is the story of an old man and a fish that changed his life.

A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from his youth, re-appears — and a well-kept family secret is uncovered.

Its the annual Christmas Eve concert at the Marigold House Assisted Living Facility. All her friends are dying and Florence wants out. When the facility double books two rival Elvis impersonators, Florence takes the opportunity for one last hurrah.

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

When a mysterious letter tips Lois over the edge, she is driven to wild lengths to address some unfinished business.

Two men, Jackson and Pollack, meet at a bar, the purpose unclear.

8歳の少年マックスはシングルマザーのママと姉と3人暮らし。マックスはある日、大好きな狼の着ぐるみを着て悪さをするが、それにママは激怒。その悔しさから家を飛び出したマックスは偶然見つけたボートに乗って海へ。やがてマックスがたどり着いたのは、大きな体を持つ不思議な“かいじゅう”たちが大勢暮らす島だった。マックスはなりゆきからその島に王様として迎えられ、みんなが幸せに暮らせる王国を作ろうとめざす。