Susie Porter
Nascimento : 1971-01-01, Newcastle, Australia
História
Susie Porter is a Logie Award winning Australian television and film actress. In 2000, she starred in the film Bootmen and in the crime drama film The Monkey's Mask, which she plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect. In 2001 she appeared in the Australian movie Mullet and had a small role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. In 2005, Porter had a supporting role in the Australian film Little Fish. In 2006, she had a role in the film The Caterpillar Wish which won her Best Supporting Actress in the AFI Awards.
Tobin Wade, a young queer theatre actor poised to perform in his Broadway breakthrough role as Tom Wingfield in 'The Glass Menagerie', must return to his Australian hometown after the breakdown of his long term relationship, and the very sudden death of his father. Stuck in a hotel room before the funeral, Tobin begins to unravel, not ready to confront a past long-left behind. When Tobin begins to notice strange and sinister occurrences in his room he realises he's not in there alone, and, unable to leave, he has no choice but to face whoever or whatever is in this room with him.
Magistrate
A história de um pai e seu filho tentando se reconectar após uma perda devastadora. O filho, atolado em culpa por uma escolha que nunca fez, e um pai sofrendo de TEPT e sem identidade após se aposentar do Regimento do Serviço Aéreo Especial do Exército Australiano. Em sua última chance com a lei, o pai é jogado no submundo do crime por um ex-irmão do SAS para impedir que seu único filho seja tirado dele.
The Stranger
Dois estranhos que estão viajando em um deserto e se surpreendem ao encontrar uma grande pepita de ouro. Eles pensam em uma estratégia para explorar e dividir a recompensa do tesouro encontrado. Enquanto um vai procurar equipamentos para dar continuidade no plano, o outro fica responsável por proteger o local e ambos lidam com diversos desafios nessa aventura.
Mrs. Miles
Adaptado do romance best-seller de Madeleine St John, Senhoras De Preto é um filme de comédia e drama sobre a vida de um grupo de funcionárias de uma loja de departamentos em 1959.
The Muse
A vida de uma célebre autora é ameaçada quando sua melhor amiga e musa revela o segredo obscuro por trás da origem de seu primeiro romance, apresentando a todos uma história de sexo, mentiras e traição.
Kay
Andy (Martin Freeman) corre contra o tempo para salvar sua filha. Infectado por um vírus de uma pandemia zumbi, ele tem apenas 48 horas para encontrar um lugar seguro a fim de proteger a criança. A salvação que o pai procura pode estar em um tribo aborígene isolada, mas para ter acesso ao grupo, ele terá que ajudar uma jovem indígena em uma missão perigosa.
Sue
Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together.
Herself
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
Maggie Maloney
No meio da década de 1980, Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings) está com 17 anos de idade e é aleatoriamente sequestrada em uma rua do subúrbio por um casal problemático. A medida que ela observa a dinâmica entre os seus sequestradores, ela logo percebe que precisa criar uma barreira entre os dois se quiser sobreviver.
Carol Lang
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.
Peggy Berman
The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put his life at risk to expose police corruption in an effort to change the law on abortion and put an end to the illegal operations that were killing young women. It’s a truly inspiring story. Dr Wainer’s determination, even when his own life and that of his family’s was threatened, never faltered. He was living proof that one person can make a difference and change the status quo. With the support of Dr Wainer’s family, the filmmakers have endeavoured to capture the essence of his struggle to expose police corruption and change the law.
Kay Parker
Sisters of War is a World War II memoir that re-creates events in New Britain during the Japanese invasion and occupation. It is a story about the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, especially Sister Berenice Twohill and her working friendship with nursing sister, Lorna Whyte. The Australians pulled out of the mission in Vunapope outside Rabaul, leaving the nurses and wounded who took refuge there. They were captured and about to be executed when Bishop Leo Scharmach MSC bluffed the Japanese by saying that he was the representative of Hitler and his people could not be executed.
Angela
Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, discovering their secrets and lives may be better shared.
Antonia Short
Small minds in a small town attempt to ostracize the local Muslim postman and their actions divide the town. When the postman's co-workers rally behind him the residents are forced to face the same exclusion they imposed on him.
Susan Woodbrige
A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
Jenny
Tracy (Cate Blanchet) é uma mulher de 32 anos que se recupera de um vício em drogas. Morando com a mãe em um subúrbio australiano, passa os dias entre sua casa e o trabalho, com os únicos momentos de prazer dedicados à natação. Com uma vida familiar conturbada, vê a volta de um ex-namorado alterar a retomada de sua vida.
Teesh
Teesh and Trude is the humorous, yet biting story of two hard and damaged women living on a diet of soapies, frustration and sarcasm. It reveals the dysfunction, denial and desperation of two people trapped by circumstances, apathy and class.
Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
Com a missão de proteger a Senadora Amidala, Anakin Skywalker descobre o seu amor por ela, do mesmo modo que vai conhecendo seu lado sombrio. Obi-Wan Kenobi descobre um exército de clones à medida que a Galáxia caminha para uma grande guerra.
Tully
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
Jill Fitzpatrick
A lesbian private detective falls in love with a suspect in the disappearance of a young woman. The film is based on the verse novel of the same name by Australian poet Dorothy Porter.
Cin
After a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.
Sara
Sean Odkin loves to dance—much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love, he goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again—dancing.
Vicki
Feeling Sexy is a story about Vicki, a passionate and vivacious artist with a voracious appetite for life and love. When she meets and marries medical student Greg, she feels she has found true happiness, but two kids and hours, weeks, years of house chores later soon shatter the dream. Vicki wants freedom, release and self-expression, and despite her love for Greg, falls into a lusty affair with art student Hugo. But dishonesty and deceit are not for Vicki. She fatally confesses all to Greg and home life becomes hellish, with Vicki left crushed and demoralized and Greg suspicious and mistrusting. A radical solution is called for and Vicki discovers that the answer may lie within her own creativity and imagination. Vicki is 'married with children' and caught in the universal dilemma - how do you keep the passion alive?
Deirdre
A 19-year-old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile, two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
Angie
A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
Anny Buchanan
Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
Oggi
Quando os japoneses invadiram Cingapura, em 1942, várias mulheres e crianças das mais diversas classes sociais foram levadas a um campo de concentração japonês. Entre elas estava Adrienne Pargiter (Glenn Close), formada pela Academia Real de Música, que decide organizar no local um coral, apesar da resistência do exército japonês.
Fay
All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
Betty
Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.