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A SCREENTIME production for SHOWTIME Australia
Premiering in 2011 exclusively on showcase, available on FOXTEL and AUSTAR
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The highly anticipated mini-series realisation of Tim Winton’s cloudstreet will premiere in 2011 exclusively on showcase available on FOXTEL and AUSTAR.
Adapted for the screen by the novel’s award winning author Tim Winton, cloudstreet – the novel, was first published in 1991 and has been a best-seller since its publication.
With the screenrights originally acquired by American producers, in late 2008 SHOWTIME Australia, in partnership with highly regarded Australian producers SCREENTIME bought the rights back ensuring that cloudstreet would be an all Australian production.
Set during WW2 and the post-war years in and around Perth, and directed by multi-award winning director MATTHEW SAVILLE (Tangle, The King, The Surgeon, Noise) cloudstreet was shot in and around Perth, Western Australia over a span of thirteen weeks in 2010.
The story of two families sharing a house at No 1 Cloud St, the outstanding ensemble cast includes STEPHEN CURRY (The Cup, The King, Changi) as SAM PICKLES and ESSIE DAVIS (The Silence, The Girl With The Pearl Earring, After The Deluge, The Matrix) as his wife DOLLY PICKLES, and EMMA BOOTH (Swerve, Underbelly 3, Clubland) as their daughter ROSE, with LARA ROBINSON (Knowing, The Long Weekend) as YOUNG ROSE.
Joining them as the tenants are GEOFF MORRELL (Rake, Bastard Boys, Curtin, Grass Roots, Changi) as LESTER LAMB, KERRY FOX (Bright Star, Shallow Grave, An Angel At My Table) as his wife ORIEL LAMB, with TODD LASANCE (Underbelly – Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, Police Rescue Special Ops, Home & Away, Fools Gold) as QUICK, recent NIDA graduate HUGO JOHNSTONE-BURT (Underbelly – The Golden Mile) as FISH, with CALLAN McAULLIFE (I Am Number Four, Flipped, Franswa Sharl) as YOUNG QUICK and TOM RUSSELL (Matching Jack, The Tree, Last Ride) as YOUNG FISH.
Also appearing is KELTON PELL (The Circuit, September, Australian Rules, One Night The Moon) as the ethereal BOB CRAB and OLIVER ACKLAND (The Proposition, Pirate Islands) as the debonair TOBY RAVEN.
Written by TIM WINTON and ELLEN FONTANA, produced by GREG HADDRICK and BRENDA PAM and executive produced by KIM VECERA, DES MONAGHAN, KIRK HALLAM and SEAN FERRER, cloudstreet is a SCREENTIME production for SHOWTIME Australia, and will premiere in mid-2011, marking the twentieth anniversary of the book’s first publication.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
requested … Matt requested to complete once delivery made.
ADAPTING AN AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC
Marking the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of the book, the screen realisation of one of Australia’s most iconic novels has been a story in itself.
With the rights initially sold overseas and the adaptation going down the path of a feature film, it soon became apparent that cloudstreet could not fit into a feature format and that Australia should be its true production home. In 2008 SHOWTIME Australia, in partnership with one of Australia’s most highly regarded production company’s SCREENTIME, negotiated to secure the rights to produce a truly Australian story in its rightful home – Perth, Western Australia.
Executive Producers – SHOWTIME’s KIM VECERA and SCREENTIME’s DES MONAGHAN appointed highly regarded producers BRENDA PAM (In A Savage Land, The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant, Underbelly) and GREG HADDRICK (MDA, The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant, Underbelly). With TIM WINTON adapting the novel for the screen, the script took the format of a mini-series.
In 2010 MATTHEW SAVILLE (We Can Be Heroes, The King, Noise, Tangle) was appointed as director. Celebrated for his innate ability of creating beautiful character driven drama with a delightful comedic twist, the multi-award winning director was perfect to steer the production from the pages of the script to the screen.
One of the world’s most highly regarded production designers, HERBERT PINTER, was one of the first members of the crew signed to the project. With an outstanding list of credits including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Breaker Morant and Mao’s Last Dancer, and his reputation for his ability to represent any historical period, Herbert set about realising the iconic cloudstreet house for the screen. Built over eight weeks, No 1 Cloud St, and the street itself, was built from the ground up on an old bitumen carpark on the old Sunset Hospital site on the banks of the Swan River – not far from where the original novel is set. With over 30 construction workers, (including 24 carpenters, 4 scenic artists and 2 set decorators) working in 40 degree heat, the house began to take shape, and once the garden was established and the surrounding houses erected, the setting for cloudstreet was created.
With other principal sets - including the interior and exterior of ‘Dolly’s Pub’, the ‘Squatters Shack’, the ‘school yard’ and the interior of ‘Bairds’ – also built on the Sunset site, as well as many of the existing buildings turned into production offices, art department, and wardrobe - the old Hospital fast turned into a ‘mini-lot’ for the duration of production.
Meanwhile, the casting agents MULLINARS CASTING had no shortage of outstanding actors all wanting to be involved in the project. With over 130 different roles, and 385 extras, there was a 5 month casting process.
Actor STEPHEN CURRY (The Cup, Changi and who had collaborated with director Matthew Saville on The King) was the first person cast in cloudstreet (as SAM PICKLES), and ESSIE DAVIES (The Silence, The Girl With The Pearl Earring, After The Deluge, The Matrix) completed her audition in the morning and that evening was told she had been cast as the beautifully tragic DOLLY PICKLES.
The script called for LESTER LAMB to play the ukulele, the banjo and the accordion. Keen musician, GEOFF MORRELL (Rake, Bastard Boys, Curtin, Grass Roots, Changi), was cast and with happenstance is a banjo player! So with little instruction it really is MORRELL playing and singing in the scenes.
KERRY FOX (Bright Star, Shallow Grave, An Angel At My Table) was cast as his wife ORIEL LAMB, after sending an electronic audition via the web. Feeling she was born to play this role, and to get into character as preparation for the audition, FOX darned a pair of stockings showing director Matthew Saville her handiwork at the end of the audition. She also purchased a sewing box from a second hand shop and used it not only as a prop in some of her scenes, but its contents were used as buttons and trim on many of her costumes by designer TERRI LAMERA.
Spanning two decades, MULLINARS’ Ann Robinson was given one of castings greatest challenges - having to match younger and older actors to play the same roles of Rose, Quick and Fish as well as all the other Lamb and Pickle children.
EMMA BOOTH (Swerve, Underbelly 3, Clubland) and LARA ROBINSON (Knowing, The Long Weekend) were cast as Rose and Young Rose respectively. With an uncanny resemblance, to complete the likeness actor Emma Booth had to wear brown contact lenses during the shoot to match their eye colour.
Home & Away star TODD LASANCE (Underbelly – Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, Police Rescue Special Ops, Home & Away) was cast as QUICK with CALLAN McAULIFFE (Flipped, I Am Number Four, Franswa Sharl) as YOUNG QUICK and recent NIDA Graduate and 2010 IF Award Out Of The Box Nominee HUGO JOHNSTONE-BURT (Underbelly – The Golden Mile) as FISH with TOM RUSSELL (Matching Jack, The Tree, Last Ride) as YOUNG FISH. During pre-production and the shoot actors HUGO JOHNSTONE-BURT and TOM RUSSELL collaborated on the nuances of the characterisation of the brain-damaged FISH, with Johnstone-Burt observing Russell’s first scenes and practicing gestures and mannerisms the young actor brought to the role.
Also cast was KELTON PELL (The Circuit, September, Australian Rules, One Night The Moon) as the ethereal BOB CRAB and OLIVER ACKLAND (The Proposition, Pirate Islands) as the debonair TOBY RAVEN.
In January 2010 the outstanding ensemble cast was announced.
In February 2010 production commenced, but not before a smoking ceremony was conducted on the Old Sunset Hospital site – which housed many of the main sets and production offices. An old rehabilitation hospital and asylum, many of the cast and crew were affected by spirits inhabiting the site. Actor KELTON PELL seconded the help of an Aboriginal Elder and together they performed the ritual throughout the area. With life imitating art it was not dissimilar to the cleansing smoking ceremony his character BOB CRAB performs through No 1 Cloud St in the third part of the series.
With locations from Moore River at Guilderton to Karnup, Coogee to Chidlow, and Bicton to Guildford the production took full advantage of Perth and its picturesque surrounds. The light is so very different in Western Australia and that coupled with the stunning locations assisted director MATTHEW SAVILLE and director of photography MARK WAREHAM with the composition of many of the stunning scenes. Despite wanting to work together in the past, cloudstreet was their first production they had worked together on, and there was an instant rapport. The creative collaboration was evident on set and is now evident on screen. Shot on HD, both credit the quintessential West Australian light and the outstanding production design with much of the beauty in the frame.
The costume design was an incredibly important part of creating the era for the screen. Designer TERRI LAMERA worked closely with MATTHEW SAVILLE and HERBERT PINTER on the look and feel of the world of cloudstreet, including the colour palette and choice of fabrics for camera. With over 500 different roles to dress, Terri put together an extensive team to source existing era-correct costumes, as well as make design, cut and hand sew many of the dresses and shirts. Given how poor both families were, the wardrobe department not only screen printed and died fabric for many of the outfits, but also put them through a dying and fading process to ensure they looked washed and worn – appropriate for the era.
With Sam Pickles losing the fingers on his right hand within the first minutes on screen, make up designer PETA HASTINGS had to source a hand double with a matching injury. The production put out a call for someone to ‘lend them a hand’ which was answered by a Perth local John McKenzie.
Once on board a cast was made of his right hand and from it a prosthetic fitted to actor STEPHEN CURRY’s hand. Each shooting day Peta fitted Stephen with the prosthetic, in a process that took over an hour in itself. On occasion John was called on to be a hand double for some of the more manual tasks such as when Sam Pickles builds the fence.
The weather was a major factor in the production – with 40 degree heat and a total fire ban throughout Perth and its surrounds. On 22nd March 2010, in the midst of shooting, and with absolutely no warning, a massive hailstorm hit Perth. In the midst of shooting scenes in the back garden when the storm hit, the cast and crew had to take shelter in the House. Ever the creative opportunist, MATTHEW SAVILLE instructed the camera crew to keep filming from the safety of the back verandah, in case the footage could perhaps be used in the edit. For those with a keen eye - snippets of it can be seen in part 2 of the miniseries. As testament to the construction of the hero house, and the other sets, the No 1 Cloud St sustained just one broken tile close to the chimney - this in contrast with the devastation that the storm caused on houses in Dalkeith and the surrounding area.
Part of the beauty and character of cloudstreet is the split house and garden. When Sam Pickles inherits the old house and two hundred quid from his brother – he promptly goes to the track with the cash and loses ‘the lot’ at the races. With only the old house to live in – he comes up with the idea of splitting it in two (with the corridor as ‘no man’s land’) and renting the other half out – garden and all, complete with a dunny each separated by a makeshift fence.
When the enterprising Lamb family move in, their side takes shape as a thriving local store with a burgeoning market garden out the back. This in direct contrast to the Pickles’ side - which remains as barren and derelict as the day they moved in.
To dress the Lamb garden, production had to source plants and vegetables at various stages of growth to mark the passing of time. The centerpiece of the Lamb Garden is the Mulberry Tree under which Oriel pitches her tent. Where a beautiful old tree was found and replanted with care in the middle of the garden – it had to also show the passing of seasons by going through the various annual stages of tree’s life including bearing fruit. To assist the process, production design commissioned 600 silicon mulberries which were hand tied on to its branches to show it in full fruit.
Also in the garden there was a menagerie of animals – a Red Kelpie called Rogan played Bill (and according to Matthew Saville one of the most reliable actors on set – ‘he never missed his mark’ – remarkable given Rogan is a show dog and cloudstreet was his first screen experience!), chooks and a pig.
Unable to go to school, Fish virtually lives in the garden with the animals as his friends – especially Bill and The Pig – who talks (voiced by renown Antipodean character actor Bruce Spence). Again to show the passing of time, on screen The Pig was played by 3 pigs – a piglet (with no name) which actor Tom Russell as Young Fish interacts with, followed by a medium pig called Crackle and ultimately a huge one called Chopper.
Actor Hugo Johnstone-Burt as Fish had to literally spend full days rolling around the pig pen - with either Crackle and Chopper – getting covered from head to foot in everything a pig pen contains. On a couple of occasions a pig would escape the pen and run riot through the yard much to the hilarity of the cast and consternation of the crew. Kerry Fox as Oriel on at least one occasion was heard to call (in character) “pig’s out!” when seeing the escapee run rampage.
Birds play a large role in the production. Sam adopts a Galah who rarely leaves his side (on screen at least). In reality ‘Ace the Galah’ was also an escape artist – and on one occasion decided to fly away mid scene. Production had two others on stand-by (Lenny and Pauly) but it was not until the end of the shooting day that one of the child actors found ‘Ace’ down by the river - and he was returned to set.
Recreating 1940s Australia was not only taken into consideration in the look of the production – but also in its sound design as well. The production licensed radio and music tracks of the era to form part of the sound design, but it was the more natural sounds of Australia they had to allow for on set. Then, the sound of magpies pervaded the air and so ‘Dinger’ and ‘Snowy’ - two of the security guards on the lot - were seconded to feed the ‘maggies’ in the morning to encourage them to hang around the set. On the converse the production was plagued with the very modern sound of aircraft, not assisted by the running of the Red Bull Air Race up the Swan River during the middle of production.
Upon conclusion of the 65 day shoot the production dismantled the set and the post-production process decamped to Melbourne, Victoria. Here the mini-series went into the cutting room with over 650 hours shot. Editor GEOFF HITCHENS and director MATTHEW SAVILLE worked together over 7 months to mold the mini-series into its final form.
SCOTT ZERO of Chromamedia (Rush, Offspring, Tangle, Underbelly) created the various VFX requirements including the steam train scenes – which were unable to be shot due to a total fire ban preventing a steam train from operating; the Catalina flying (with the interior scenes shot in a real Catalina at the Aviation Heritage Museum in Bullcreek) the flying fish, Quick glowing and the talking pig (voiced by Bruce Spence) as well as Fish floating through the wheatfields to rescue his brother.
Highly regarded composer BRYONY MARKS (Hawke, Tangle, The King, Noise) wrote and produced a beautiful and evocative score, recorded by the Melbourne Studio Orchestra with the Melbourne Grammar School Chapel Choir.
With a genesis of over a year from the start of pre-production to delivery – the adaptation of an
Australian classic was finally complete. cloudstreet. A SCREENTIME Production for SHOWTIME Australia will premiere in 2011 exclusively on showcase, available on FOXTEL and AUSTAR.
cloudstreet follows the fortunes of two typically boisterous clans, the Pickles and the Lambs, as they share a ramshackle house and struggle to come to terms with life in 40s and 50s Australia - the various hurdles that luck and fate have tossed in their path, and the meaning of faith and family.
cloudstreet Part 1
During the years of World War II, bad luck robs Sam Pickles of the fingers on his right hand and the Lambs’ youngest son is left brain damaged through a near-drowning. But Sam Pickles inherits a huge house in Perth, and when a further run of bad luck leads him to rent a half of it out, the Lambs become tenants in Number 1, Cloud Street.
cloudstreet Part 2
The Lambs have established a successful local store in the front room of their half of the house, while the Pickles are still blown by the winds of fate in their half. Both families have ups and downs but then good times seem to be there for both.
cloudstreet Part 3
Good times quickly end as tragedy strikes the Pickles. But slowly things come round. Both families unwittingly help the other as journeys away from faith, away from family, away from home and away from love, all return to find their natural place in cloudstreet.
SYNOPSES Part 1
In southern Western Australia in 1943, the Lamb family rescues their son, Fish, from nearly drowning, but their faith in God’s ability to grant them a miracle is destroyed when they realise Fish has been left brain damaged – albeit with a perpetual desire to be reunited from the water he has been dragged out of.
He does not recognise Oriel, his mother, and he’s a laughing stock in town. Oriel responds by putting God in his place, turning her back on her faith and her community and establishing a new home where they can all knuckle down and work to make a decent living. Where to go is left to chance – a spinning steak knife – and the destination chosen by the piece of cutlery is Perth.
Meanwhile, out on the phosphate-rich Abrohlos Islands, Sam Pickles thinks the shifty shadow of bad luck has fallen on him and if he gets up, something bad will happen. But the foreman makes him get up, and sure enough he promptly loses the fingers off his right hand in a boating accident. He is flown back to Geraldton where his wife (Dolly) works in his brother’s pub. It looks like their bad luck will never end – until Sam’s brother dies of a heart attack and leaves him two hundred quid and a boarded-up, ramshackle home in Cloud Street, Perth. Thinking his luck’s changed, he takes the two hundred quid to the track and loses the lot, so now his only asset is the groaning, empty house. He splits it in half and decides to live in one half with his family, and rent out the other half. The Lamb family, recent arrivals in Perth, see the ad and rent out the other half. Thus two families, strangers to each other, end up sharing the one house.
The Lambs open a corner store in the front room of their half of the house, with Oriel giving most of the orders and her husband Lester doing most of the work. But they are industrious. They make their own life, whereas the Pickles are blown by the winds of fate. Sam gets a job in the Mint, while Dolly, regretting the roads not travelled, spends more and more time in the bar. Increasingly, the domestic chores at home fall to their smart, well-read young daughter, Rose, who grows to hate her mother and their meager existence.
But the house - the living, groaning house - is an uncomfortable presence both families feel. And it is also felt by one of the local river people, Bob Crab, whose indigenous heritage allows him to be sensitive to the present and the ‘everywhen’. Oddly, Fish Lamb’s accident has left him with the same sensitivity, and they both seem to know that the sufferings of the past – sufferings still trapped within the house – will need an end to division and exclusion before they can relax into a timeless peace.
On the river, Fish briefly introduces Quick to the magic of the undivided world as he (Fish) sometimes perceives it, but by the time Lester finds them and they return home, the divisions and sufferings in the house have driven Oriel out, and she takes up residence in a tent in the backyard.
SYNOPSES Part 2
Years have passed, but little has changed. The Lambs are still bustlers, the Pickles do little. Rose’s antipathy towards Dolly has grown – particularly when Dolly tells her she has to leave school and get a job. Rose’s brother, cheeky little Ted (Dolly’s favourite) is now a jockey and a hit with the girls. And Quick Lamb is still looking after his little brain-damaged brother Fish, and still feeling a sense of guilt over the fishing accident in which Fish nearly drowned. Soon, the pressure of those feelings leads him to snap and he walks out of Cloudstreet – despite his mothers orders for him to stay.
In response to Quick’s desertion, to keep herself busy, Oriel declares war on a competing local cornershop, unaware that its owner, Gerry Clay, is having an affair with Dolly Pickles. Oriel wins the retail war but is shaken into realising the cost of the war has led Gerry to walk out on his wife, who is now left to bring up their kids on her own and who therefore hates Oriel Lamb. Mrs Clay also tells Sam Pickles about Dolly’s affair. Sam contemplates ending it all, but Rose, and his love for Rose, stops him. Instead, in typical Pickles fashion, he does nothing, and things sort themselves out when Gerry Clay leaves. Then Ted elopes to Adelaide with the daughter of the horse trainer he works for, and suddenly Dolly’s favourite son is gone. Meanwhile, Rose, keen for an escape from the stifling nothingness of Cloudstreet, begins a relationship with an urbane, young would-be-author, Toby Raven who represents all the things she doesn’t like about Cloudstreet. Until she makes the disturbing discovery that he is a plagiarist. Toby does a decent job of explaining to her that it wasn’t really plagiarism – but we can see Rose’s trust in him has been damaged.
Before things can settle down, Sam arrives home with a black eye and a broken tooth, and Dolly knows he once again owes a lot of money from betting at the track. Lester, keen to avoid any debt collectors arriving on the doorstep of a house he shares, quickly hides Sam in a remote shack and sets about skimming the money Sam owes from the shop’s profits. Caught by Dolly, she seduces him, partly in thanks, partly to buy his silence.
Quick, meanwhile, is roo-shooting in the vast wheatfields of Western Australia. When he’s left injured by a charging kangaroo one night, his connection with Fish leads to another moment of magic realism – Fish, on both the backyard porch but also “in” the wheatfield, offers to rescue the prone Quick, but he is unable to, as Quick had been unable to help the young, drowning Fish.
Lester brings out the money Sam owes to the shack where Sam is hiding, but Lester is extremely concerned that Oriel will know he’s stolen from the shop, and that Sam might twig he’s just had a tryst with Dolly. But Sam has just tossed a coin and come up with one hundred and thirty three “heads” in a row. He is on fire. His luck is in. They can take the money Lester has brought out to the two-up school and triple it and everything’ll be sweet. In the maelstrom of life, it’s an “up” moment, a winning moment they can all feel.
SYNOPSES Part 3
Winning moments never last, however, and news arrives from Adelaide that Ted has died of a heart attack in a sauna while trying to lose weight (as jockeys do). Dolly is inconsolable, although she makes renewed attempts to see if alcohol will console her. Rose makes a token effort to comfort her mother, but her fundamental contempt for Dolly makes this impossible. The house is still groaning and suffering – worse than ever. Life is now as divided and dislocated as it will ever be. Rose is, emotionally, as far from her mother and her family as she will ever be. Quick is physically as far from Fish and his family as he will ever be. Oriel is furthest away from the faith she once had. And Sam, as always, is just waiting to see what happens next.
Quick’s truck just misses crashing into a freight train. That’s what happens next. While recovering, extraordinary events take place that seem partly organised by Bob Crab to ensure that Quick returns to cloudstreet with the knowledge that losing his family is worse than losing his mind. After returning, Quick sees Oriel and resolves his feelings of guilt regarding Fish, and begins fishing on the Swan River with Fish, allowing Fish to be one step closer to his beloved water. Meanwhile Toby Raven unwittingly prods Rose into realising how much the simple, loving life of cloudstreet is more in her soul than the artificial world of Toby – they break up, and Rose and Quick see the end to each of their searches in each other. Before too long, Rose is pregnant, and an engagement is declared. Dolly thinks this is hugely ironic, but with Rose about to be a mother herself, truths and shames of the past are finally faced that dissolve the hatred between mother and daughter.
It’s now mid 1950s, and for a moment Sam tosses up whether to sell cloudstreet – but the very idea makes everyone realise they actually don’t want to. The house has become part of them. Part of all of them. Despite its oddness.
After Rose and Quick’s wedding, their son is born in the house, and Oriel praises the Lord, returning to faith as she sees life itself is the miracle and the miracle was surrounding her all the time. Two families divided within each other and between each other for so long are now in harmony, and Bob Crab knows he can at last finish the business of releasing the house itself from its sufferings and the injustices of ‘everywhen’. The business is finished.
And Fish can now at last once again recognise Oriel. He can see it all. And the only journey still to complete is his own long journey back to the beautiful, beautiful water.
Key Cast
PICKLES FAMILY
Sam Pickles Stephen Curry
Dolly Pickles Essie Davis
Rose Pickles Emma Booth
Ted Pickles Sean Keenan
Chub Pickles Shannon Lively
Young Rose Pickles Lara Robinson
Young Ted Pickles William Mattock
Young Chub Pickles Reece Sardelic
Young Dolly Pickles Sierra Bathurst
Joel Pickles Andrew Lewis
LAMB FAMILY
Lester Lamb Geoff Morrell
Oriel Lamb Kerry Fox
Quick Lamb Todd Lasance
Fish Lamb Hugo Johnstone-Burt
Lon Lamb Adam Sollis
Elaine Lamb Sarah McKellar
Hat Lamb Siobhan Dow-Hall
Red Lamb Amanda Woodhams
Young Quick Lamb Callan McAuliffe
Young Fish Lamb Tom Russell
Young Lon Lamb Rohnan Tierney
Young Elaine Lamb Annie Smith
Young Hat Lamb Freya Tingley
Young Red Lamb Grace Ray
OTHER CAST
Bob Crab Kelton Pell
Toby Raven Oliver Ackland
The Voice of The Pig Bruce Spence
Narration Ron Haddrick
Key Crew
Director Matthew Saville
Writers Tim Winton & Ellen Fontana
Producers Greg Haddrick
Brenda Pam
Executive Producer Kim Vecera
Des Monaghan
Sean H. Ferrer
Kirk M. Hallam
Director of Photography Mark Wareham
Production Designer Herbert Pinter
Casting Ann Robinson
Mullinars Casting Consultants
Costume Designer Terri Lamera
Make Up/Hair Designer Peta Hastings
Editor Geoff Hitchins
Composer Bryony Marks
Sound Designer Emma Bortignon
VFX Supervisor Scott Zero
SAM PICKLES
Sam always had a nose for chance. He was built like a snappy rover and over the years his luck had waxed and waned. Like a gambler he thought the equation was about even, though any plant, animal or mineral could have told him he was on a lifelong losing streak. Sam Pickles married Dolly as a young man and they had three children: Rose, Ted and Chub. He lost the fingers of his right hand in an accident while working on the Abrohlos Islands during World War 2. Soon after, when his brother Joel died, Sam inherited some money and a ramshackle house at 1 Cloud Street, Perth. Typically, he blew all the money at the track and had to live in one half of the house while renting out the other. He’s basically a classic knockabout Aussie bloke who would rather react to problems by doing nothing until they went away than actually work to solve them. He genuinely loves Dolly, and his soft spot for daughter Rose is obvious to all.
STEPHEN CURRY is SAM PICKLES
Stephen became a household name with his breakout role in the Australian hit, The Castle, playing the character of Dale Kerrigan opposite Michael Caton and Eric Bana. His other feature credits include the 2006 thriller Rogue and the yet to be released The Cup with Stephen in the leading role of Damien Oliver.
Stephen has been a regular face in many of Australia’s most respected television shows including Frontline, The Secret Life of Us, Changi, Day of the Roses and the mini-series Mary Bryant. In 2007, he took on the challenging role of portraying one of Australia’s most legendary personalities, Graham Kennedy, in the biopic, The King. Awards followed, including the AFI Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, the TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama, and the ASTRA Award for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor.
Since working on The King, Stephen has performed leading roles in the telemovie The Informant; and the miniseries False Witness. He also shot the short film You Better Watch Out with Chris Haywood and Dan Wylie, the film was nominated for Best Short Film for the 2008 IF Awards. In 2009, Stephen played a regular role in 30 Seconds.
DOLLY PICKLES
Dolly had a lonely, unhappy childhood, never feeling as though she belonged to her family and desperate to go somewhere else. She was happy for a time after marrying Sam until she realised his losses would always outweigh his wins. But Dolly Pickles was still a damn goodlooking woman. She loved men. And they loved her availability. Only Sam really loved her. She loved their son, Ted. How to really belong – even to her own family - is the constant struggle for Dolly. She can’t leave and hope to belong, but she can’t stay and be happy with what she has. Not until she can heal old wounds.
ESSIE DAVIS is DOLLY PICKLES
Since graduating from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, Essie Davis has become one of Australia’s most respected and acclaimed film, theatre and television actors.
With feature film credits including Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Wachowski Brothers’ The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46, Charlotte’s Web, Isolation and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, In 2010, Essie starred in two feature films, The Wedding Party which premiered at the 2010 Melbourne Film Festival and South Solitary which opened the 2010 Sydney Film Festival.
Essie has starred in numerous television series and miniseries including Sweeney Todd for the BBC, The Silence, After the Deluge which earned her an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actress and Halifax fp: The Spider and the Fly for which she was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Performance by an Actress.
Essie has also gained critical acclaim for her theatre roles. For the Sydney Theatre Company she has starred in Tot Mom directed by Steven Soderbergh and The School for Scandal directed by Judy Davis, which earned her a Helpmann Award nomination, and for the Melbourne Theatre Company her performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof saw her nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Female Performer.
Essie was also nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Dottie in the Broadway run of the London’s National Theatre’s production of Jumpers, and her performance as Stella in the London’s National Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire won her an Olivier Award.
In 2011, Essie will also be seen in Jonathan Teplitzky’s Burning Man opposite Matthew Goode and Rachel Griffiths.
ROSE PICKLES
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EMMA BOOTH is ROSE PICKLES
Emma Booth is one of Australia’s leading young actors in film and television. Emma made her feature film debut in Cherie Nowlan’s Clubland aka Introducing The Dwights, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Her performance in the film earned her the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, and the Best Australian Newcomer at the 2008 Movie Extra Filmink Awards.
Emma went on to star in Joel Schumacher’s Blood Creek, Karl Golden’s independent feature Pelican Blood and Scott Hicks’ The Boys Are Back opposite Clive Owen, which premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Emma will also appear as Germaine Greer in the Working Title feature, Hippie Hippie Shake opposite Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller, and in 2011 she will be seen in Craig Lahiff’s Swerve alongside Jason Clarke and David Lyons.
Emma’s television credits include starring as Kim Hollingsworth in Underbelly: The Golden Mile, Rowan Woods’ ABC miniseries Three Acts Of Murder, The Shark Net, Small Claims, The Circuit and All Saints.
LARA ROBINSON is YOUNG ROSE PICKLES
With an impressive list of credits to her name Lara Robinson has emerged as one of Australia's most promising young actors.
In 2009 Lara worked on the thriller Knowing. Starring Nicholas Cage, Rose Byrne and Chandler Canterbury, Lara played both Byrne's daughter Abby, as well as her mother Lucinda, in flashback scenes that give the film its powerful opening sequence.
Previously, Lara worked on the remake of the 1978 classic Australian thriller The Long Weekend starring Claudia Karvan. Her television credits include City Homicide, The Elephant Princess and the SBS telemovie Saved.
LESTER LAMB
Lanky-planky Lester Lamb is always a little behind the moment. He is a good man. A decent man. A “Yes, dear” man always prepared to do the chores set for the day by his wife, Oriel. His life followed the same path of so many Australian men in the first half of the twentieth century: a veteran of World War 1 who returned to the land but turned out to be only a moderate-to-poor farmer. But he doesn’t let life get him down. As long as he has his family, and can keep a smile on their faces with a joke or a tune, he’s a happy bloke. He carries Fish’s tragedy with him all his life, but carries it with dignity.
GEOFF MORRELL is LESTER LAMB
One of Australia’s most prolific and award winning actors, Geoff Morrell has played some of Australia’s best loved characters on stage and screen.
With feature credits including lead roles in Ten Empty and Rogue as well as supporting lead roles in Ned Kelly, Lucky Miles, The View from Greenhaven Drive, and Coffin Rock, Geoff has created some of Australia’s best loved television characters in Grass Roots, Bastard Boys, Curtain and Blue Heelers and Changi, as well as appearing in The Secret Life Of Us, Stingers and Farscape.
Morrell has won the 2000 AFI Award for Best Actor for Grass Roots, and has been nominated four times, for Fallen Angels Grass Roots (2nd series), Changi and Marking Time. He has been nominated for three TV Week Silver Logies for Grass Roots (1st and 2nd series) and Changi.
Geoff has most recently been seen on Australian screens in the ABC mini-series, Rake.
ORIEL LAMB
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KERRY FOX is ORIEL LAMB
Kerry Fox is one of New Zealand’s most internationally respected and awarded actors.
Kerry’s body of work includes Jane Campion’s An Angel At My Table for which she was awarded the New Zealand Film Award for Best Actress, the San Sebastian Film Festival Award for Best Actress and the Venice Film Festival Elvira Notari Award for Best Performance; Gillian Armstrong’s The Last Days of Chez Nous which earned her the Asia-Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress; and Patrice Chereau’s Intimacy which saw her win the Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award.
She has also starred in Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave, Michael Winterbottom’s Welcome to Sarajevo, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Country Life, The Gathering, The Hanging Garden, Storm and most recently Bright Star directed by Jane Campion.
Kerry has appeared in numerous productions for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 in the UK including A Village Affair, Saigon Baby, Déjà Vu, Waking the Dead and Trial and Retribution and for HBO in the telemovie The Affair. In 2010, Kerry starred in Rowan Joffe’s BAFTA Award winning telemovie The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall.
Kerry trained at The New Zealand Drama School and is an accomplished theatre actress having appeared on stage in Wellington, Sydney and London. Most recently, Kerry performed in Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre.
In 2011, Kerry will also be seen in Jonathan Teplitzsky’s feature Burning Man and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders.
QUICK LAMB
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TODD LASANCE is QUICK LAMB
Winner of the 2009 TV Week Silver Logie for ‘Most Popular Actor in a Television Series’ for his role as Aden in Home & Away, Todd was nominated for the same award a year later.
In 2010 Todd was cast in Underbelly – Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, and most recently completed filming a recurring guest lead role in Channel 9’s Rescue Special Ops Season 3. His other television credits include McLeod’s Daughters, Blue Water High and Blackjack – Ghost.
On film, Todd played the role of Frat Boy in the US feature Fools Gold - opposite Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.
CALLAN McAULIFFE is YOUNG QUICK LAMB
One of Australia’s rising young stars in film and television, in 2010 Callan made his feature debut as Rob Reiner’s romantic lead in the Warner Bros’ coming of age film Flipped. He has recently completed filming the Dreamworks high action feature I Am Number Four, directed by D J Caruso and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, which will be released in 2011.
Callan starred in the award winning short film Franswa Sharl, directed by Hannah Hilliard. Awarded the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, the film also received the IF Media Award for Most Popular Film at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival and Best Australian Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival. It also screened in Official Selection at the Aspen International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival.
With television credits including Packed to the Rafters, Comedy Inc. and Blue Water High, Callan has also appeared in Darren Ashton’s short film Undertow and Young Jonathan directed by Iain McDonald.
FISH LAMB
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HUGO JOHNSTONE-BURT is FISH LAMB
Recent NIDA graduate Hugo Johnstone-Burt is fast building a career on stage and screen. Whilst at NIDA he appeared in theatre productions including Rabbit Hole, Importance of Being Earnest and Measure for Measure. Hugo has also appeared in the short films One More Day and Crowtrap.
In 2010, Hugo played the role of Alan Rossini in Underbelly: The Golden Mile, and received a nomination for the Out Of The Box Award recognising new talent at the 2010 IF Awards.
TOM RUSSELL is YOUNG FISH LAMB
Tom's screen debut came in 2008 with the title role in the short film Daniel, before being cast in the lead role of Chook in the feature film, Last Ride opposite Hugo Weaving. Tom has recently been honoured with an AFI Nomination for Best Young Actor for his performance.
In 2010 Tom played the key role of Jack in Nadia Tass’ feature film Matching Jack, opposite James Nesbitt, Richard Roxburgh, Kodi Smitt-McPhee and Jacinda Barrett, and the same year he also played the role of Lou in The Tree, directed by Julie Bertucelli and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
BOB CRAB
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KELTON PELL is BOB CRAB
Kelton Pell has built a reputation for being one of Australia’s finest indigenous actors. Widely recognised for his role as Sam Wallan in SBS’s highly acclaimed The Circuit, Kelton has also appeared in Bush Patrol.
On the big screen, Kelton has appeared in The Last Ride, Bran Nue Dae, Blackfellas, Australian Rules, Confessions of a Headhunter, Cold Turkey, Where Two Rivers Meet, September, One Night The Moon and To Hell and Back.
In 2010, Kelton Pell used his unique charm to effect in the films Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wagkun and Mad Bastards.
TOBY RAVEN
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OLIVER ACKLAND is TOBY RAVEN
Awarded the inaugural Heath Ledger Scholarship in 2009, Oliver Ackland is a rising star of Australian film and television.
With feature credits including Roger Scholes’ Cable and John Hillcoat’s highly acclaimed The Proposition, Oliver’s most recent feature is Ben Lucas’ Wasted on the Young which premiered at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival and screened at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
With television credits including All Saints, Always Greener, Young Lions, Outriders and Pirate Islands, Oliver also appeared in the telemovie Emerald Falls and co-starred in the miniseries Jessica.
Oliver has also appeared in numerous short films including 50-50, Emergence, Damian Walshe-Howling’s The Bloody Sweet Hit and Eve directed by Hannah Hilliard.
TIM WINTON
The pre-eminent Australian novelist of his generation, Tim’s literary reputation was established early when his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the 1981 Australian Vogel Award; his second novel Shallows, won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984; and his third book, Scission, a collection of short stories, won the West Australian Council Literary Award in 1985.
That Eye The Sky was adapted for the stage by Justin Monjo and Richard Roxburgh, and also made into a film. A film adaptation was made of In The Winter Dark, starring Brenda Blethyn.
Tim’s fifth novel, cloudstreet, the story of two working-class families rebuilding their lives, was a huge literary and commercial success. It has been a best seller since its publication in 1991 and was recently voted the most popular Australian novel by the Australian Society of Authors. Awards include National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction, 1991; West Australian Fiction Award 1991; Deo Gloria Award (UK), 1991 and the 1992 Miles Franklin Award.
cloudstreet was adapted for the stage by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo, and played to sell-out houses around Australia and in Zurich, London and Dublin in 1999. It toured internationally again in 2001, playing in London, New York and Washington.
Tim’s next novel was The Riders. Published in 1995, it was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize and has been translated into numerous languages including French, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Greek and Hebrew.
Winton’s books for children and teenagers include the series of three books about the 13 year old Lockie Leonard. The first book in the series, Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo, won the Western Australia Premier's Award for Children's Fiction. It was adapted for the stage by Paige Gibbs and toured nationally with great success. Lockie Leonard, Legend the most recent in the series, won the Family Award for Children’s Literature. The books have been adapted into a television series by Goalpost Pictures.
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In 2001 Tim’s novel, Dirt Music, was published to considerable critical acclaim and impressive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the 2002 Mann Booker Prize and won the 2002 Miles Franklin Award, the West Australian Fiction Award and the Christina Stead Award for Fiction. Film rights have been optioned by Phil Noyce and his company Rumbalara Films.
The Turning, a collection of stories, was published in 2004. It was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award and won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Queensland Fiction Book Award and the Colin Roderick Award. The film rights in the collection are under option to Robert Connelly.
Tim Winton’s most recent novel Breath (2008) won the 2009 Miles Franklin Award, making him the only Australian writer to have won this award four times. Breath was published by Penguin Books Australia, Picador United Kingdom, Farrar Straus Giroux USA, Harper Collins Canada, de Gues in the Netherlands, Luchterland Germany and Editions Rivages & Payot France in 2008. Film rights have been optioned by Simon Baker and Mark Johnston.
Tim Winton is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia. Active in the environmental movement in Australia, he was awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Literature and the Community. He is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Stop the Toad Foundation.
MATTHEW SAVILLE DIRECTOR
Matthew Saville rose to prominence directing comedy. He worked on both skitHouse for Channel Ten and the Big Bite for the Seven Network.
His short comedy feature Roy Höllsdotter Live screened in 2003 at the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Locarno, Cork and Montreal and Commonwealth International Film Festivals and on SBS. In 2002, the script for the film was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and in 2003, the film won the Dendy Award for Best Short Film (over 15mins) at the Sydney Film Festival, and Best Original Script for Television at the 2003 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Film Critics’ Circle of Australia and two AFI Awards. The film was voted Best Short Film at the 2003 Lexus IF Awards, where Matthew was also honoured with the Best Rising Talent Award.
In 2005 Matthew directed We Can Be Heroes (aka The Nominees), which recently aired on the Sundance Channel. The series was nominated for four AFI awards, and was awarded two Logies. It also won the Rose d’Or for Best Comedy Series and Best Comic Performance. Matthew made a successful crossover to drama directing The Secret Life of Us and The Surgeon.
In 2007, Matthew directed The King, a telemovie about Australian television iconoclast, Graham Kennedy. The telemovie won three AFI Awards for Best Direction, Best Actor and Best Telemovie, and the Logie Award for Outstanding Male Performance (Stephen Curry).
Noise, his first feature length film, was awarded the Village Roadshow Award for Best Screenplay at the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically to strong reviews. Noise was nominated for nine AFI Awards including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Director. The film was voted best Australian Film of 2007 by the Australian Film Critics’ Association, and won six Film Critics’ Circle of Australia Awards, including Best Direction and Best Film.
In 2009, Matthew directed four episodes of the first season of Tangle for SHOWTIME Australia.
MARK WAREHAM DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Mark is one of Australia’s foremost cinematographers whose talent and passion for creative collaboration has made him highly sought-after by Australian and international directors.
His expertise has been recognised by his peers and the filmmaking industry time and again. Most recently Mark won two Golden Tripods at the 2009 Australian Cinematography Society Awards and he has twice been nominated for AFI awards.
Mark’s work spans feature films, television movies, mini-series, commercials and documentary. He has worked on projects as diverse as the stunning filmed opera Eternity Man (dir: Julien Temple) to the award-winning television movie Scorched and the Sundance Festival feature film hit Clubland directed by Cherie Nowlan and starring Brenda Blethyn.
Mark’s other feature film credits include Boytown, The Extra, Crooked Business and The View from Greenhaven (winner of the 2007 Project Greenlight Australia competition).
His second unit Director/DOP feature credits include Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid, The Condemned, Invincible, Kokoda and most recently Triangle.
Amongst his television movie and mini-series credits include False Witness, The Informant, Murder in the Outback - The Joanne Lees Story, Answered by Fire, Small Claims:, Little Oberon, Big Reef, The Postcard Bandit, and Dominick Dunne Presents: Murder in Greenwich.
His recent credits include A Model Daughter for SCREENTIME with long time collaborator Director Tony Tilse, Wicked Love - The Maria Korp Story directed by Ian Watson, and the feature film Kings of Mykynos: Wog Boy 2 released in 2010.
HERBERT PINTER PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Herbert Pinter is one of Australia’s most highly regarded Production Designers, having worked with directors such as Peter Weir on great Australian classics such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously and Bruce Beresford on the award-winning Breaker Morant, Black Robe, Mr Johnson, Paradise Road and Bride of the Wind.
In his 30 year career, Herbert has earned a reputation for his ability to adapt difficult locations and represent any historical period - from Science Fiction to the 15th Century. His experience has seen him tackle various climates including filming in the heat of the sub-Sahara, the freezing north of Canada, the tropics of South East Asia and the Amazonian jungle, the mountains of Mexico and the cultured climes of old Europe, as well as transforming contemporary Australia into the blue bayous of Louisiana and to the slums of South East Asia.
AFI, Sammy and Genie Award Winner and multiple AFI Award Nominee, Herbert was nominated for an Emmy in 2004 for Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special for Bruce Beresford’s And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself. He also received the Art Directors Guild Award of Excellence in Production Design for the same production. In 2009 he nominated for an AFI Award for Mao’s Last Dancer.
TERRI LAMERA COSTUME DESIGNER
With a prolific career in costume over the last 25 years, Terri has worked in film, television and theatre both in Australia and internationally. In doing so she has gained a wide range of knowledge in the areas of design, creating, sourcing, styling, supervising and putting a creative team of people together.
Originally from Western Australia, Terri’s career in film began as Costume Assistant on the iconic Australian action film Mad Max II. Other film credits include Costume Supervisor on Keys to Freedom (1988), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1994), Under The Lighthouse Dancing (1995) and The Man Who Sued God (2001). Also in film Terri worked as a Costumer Buyer for Superman Returns (2005), and Assistant Costume Designer on Nim’s Island (2007). Most recently in film Terri worked as Costume Buyer/Design Assistant on the box office hit X-Men Origins: Wolverine for Twentieth Century Fox.
In television Terri has worked as Costume Designer for the series Water Rats (120 episodes from 1996 -2000), All Saints (2002), and the West Australian children’s television series Clowning Around Encore in 1993. Her tele-movie credits include Butterfly Island (1991–92), West Australian productions Singapore Sling (1994) and Natural Justice (1996), as well as My Husband My Killer (2000) and Heroes Mountain (2001).
Amongst her other television credits are the British mini-series Mary Bryant (2004 & 2005) and the US tele-movie The Junction Boys in 2002.
Terri’s theatre credits are numerous, her personal highlight being asked to co-design for the musical Priscilla. In 2000, Terri was the Costume Co-coordinator and dresser for VIP performers for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the Sydney Olympics. Terri has a keen interest in vintage clothing, once owning and managing a vintage clothing business.
BRENDA PAM PRODUCER
One of Australia’s leading producers, Brenda Pam’s career spans over 30 years with a diverse array of film, documentary and television credits to her name. In 1994 she associate produced Clive Fleury’s Tunnel Vision and Karl Zwicky’s Paws, and in 1998, she co-produced James Bogle’s In The Winter Dark and Bill Bennett’s In A Savage Land. In 1999 she associate-produced Shirley Barrett’s Walk the Talk for Dreamworks.
In 2000 she co-produced Bill Bennett’s American feature Tempted, which was filmed in New Orleans. Returning to Australia, Pam was production executive on The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course for MGM, which was followed by the landmark television mini-series, The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant, which she line-produced for Screentime.
Since then, Pam has continued her collaboration with Screentime producing the highly acclaimed and multi-award winning Underbelly, followed by Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities which she produced with Greg Haddrick.
GREG HADDRICK PRODUCER
Following an early career as a writer for many different series and serials, Greg Haddrick has been Screentime’s Head of Drama since 2001.
In that time he has overseen development and production of three series of MDA (as executive producer, producer and co-writer); four telemovies - My Husband, My Killer (writer), Society Murders (producer, co-writer), The Informant (producer, writer), A Model Daughter (executive producer); and five mini-series - Jessica, Mary Bryant (producer), Underbelly (producer, co-writer), False Witness (producer), Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (producer, co-writer) and Underbelly: The Golden Mile (executive producer, co-writer).
Combined, these shows have won seven Logie Awards, seventeen AFI Awards, six AWGIE Awards (including the Major AWGIE Award for Underbelly), two Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards as well as an International Emmy Nomination for MDA.
KIM VECERA EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
With an extensive career in film and television, Kim Vecera is a driving force behind some Australia’s most successful and critically acclaimed productions.
She began her career at the Australian Film Commission before being appointed Business Affairs Manager at Roadshow, Coote and Carroll. During her ten year tenure, the company produced over 300 hours of programming including Brides of Christ and GP.
Kim was then appointed CEO of the ARC music TV enterprise, which was re-branded in 1997 to MTV Australia. In 1999, she was appointed Production Executive at Fox Studios Australia, overseeing all local film and television commissions before being promoted to Head of Production.
She joined FOXTEL in 2002. Kim's executive producer credits for FOXTEL include Love Bytes, Dangerous, the multiple award-winning Love My Way Seasons 1 and 2, the comedies Whatever Happened To That Guy? and :30 Seconds, and the drama Spirited, which is currently in production for a second series.
In 2005, Kim also joined SHOWTIME Australia as Executive Producer on all original drama commissions. Her credits include Love My Way Season 3, Satisfaction – Seasons 1, 2 and 3 and Tangle Seasons 1 and 2.
DES MONAGHAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Des Monaghan is co-principal of Screentime Pty Ltd. He is a multi award winning Producer who has held Senior Executive positions in Networks and production companies in Australia and New Zealand. He was formerly the Controller of Programming and subsequently Director Program and Production for Television New Zealand (TVNZ) Networks 1 and 2 in New Zealand.
In the late 1980s Des set up South Pacific Pictures Limited, one of the largest and most successful production companies in Australasia, before being head-hunted to take up the position of Network Director of Production and Program Development at The Seven Network in Australia.
In the mid 1990s he joined forces with Bob Campbell, the then Managing Director of The Seven Network to set up Screentime Pty Ltd, an independent production company with operations in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
Since Screentime began its operations, it has produced programs in all genres – telemovies, mini-series, long form drama, comedy, serial drama and infotainment/reality. It produces formats owned by the group in over 40 countries.
Their award winning series Underbelly was the number one rating series in Australia in 2008 and the third series, Underbelly: The Golden Mile screened in 2010 on the Nine Network.
CLOUDSTREET - The Novel
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An Australian classic, Tim Winton’s cloudstreet was first published in 1991.
It has been a best seller since its publication in 1991 and was recently voted the most popular Australian novel by the Australian Society of Authors, and voted as Australia’s favourite novel in the 2009 Australian Book Review.
Awards include National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction, 1991; West Australian Fiction Award 1991; Deo Gloria Award (UK), 1991 and the 1992 Miles Franklin Award.
cloudstreet, was adapted for the stage by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo, and played to sell-out houses around Australia and in Zurich, London and Dublin in 1999. It toured internationally again in 2001, playing in London, New York and Washington.
Published in eleven countries and adapted for radio and published as an audio book, cloudstreet is studied at secondary and tertiary levels around Australia.
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