David Field

Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'

David Michôd, Natasha Braier

Behind the scenes look at David Michôd's 2014 film 'The Rover'.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

George Miller

Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth

As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home. Australia is a radioactive wasteland, and the Green Place of Many Mothers is one of the last areas with fresh water and agriculture. Raiders discover the Green Place while children Furiosa and Valkyrie are picking peaches. Furiosa tries to sabotage their motorcycles but is captured as a prize for Dementus, leader of the Biker Horde. Furiosa's mother, Mary, follows and kills all but one raider. The last raider delivers Furiosa to Dementus, but she mortally wounds him before he can reveal the Green Place's location. Mary rescues Furiosa, but Dementus tracks them down. Mary stays behind to buy time and gives Furiosa a peach pit to remember her by. Furiosa refuses to leave, and Dementus forces her to watch her mother's crucifixion. Dementus, haunted by his family's death, adopts Furiosa, hoping she will lead him to the Green Place.

BlackJack: Dead Memory

Peter Andrikidis

Colin Friels, David Field

A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.

Shantaram

Bharat Nalluri, Bronwen Hughes

Charlie Hunnam, Antonia Desplat

Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city’s poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.

BlackJack: Ace Point Game

Peter Andrikidis

Colin Friels, David Field

After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted away' to the basement, where old files get transferred to the national computer database. Thus he comes across fingerprints, now identifiable, in the 30 year old case of Ashley, the kidnapped son of lottery winners. Although he's too late to help him now, he tracks the perpetrators down behind his boss's back.

Last Cab to Darwin

Jeremy Sims

Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver

Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.

BlackJack: Ghosts

Kate Woods

Colin Friels, Marta Dusseldorp

Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.

BlackJack: In the Money

Ian Watson

Colin Friels, Gigi Edgley

Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?

One Night the Moon

Rachel Perkins

Kelton Pell, Paul Kelly

Based on the true story of a young girl who went missing in the Australian outback in 1932.

Chopper

Andrew Dominik

Эрик Бана, Vince Colosimo

The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.

Everynight... Everynight

Alkinos Tsilimidos

David Field, Bill Hunter

Is an Australian drama film directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos and released in 1994. Based on a play of the same name, written by Ray Mooney, the film details the early life of contract killer Christopher Dale Flannery and is set inside Melbourne's HM Prison Pentridge's maximum security H Division.[1] Filming was undertaken at HM Prison Geelong. Dale, a remandee, is awaiting a court hearing and yet to be sentenced, highlighting the horrific injustice of the repeated beatings he's subjected to. Gradually Dale becomes indifferent to the bashings and horrors of prison life and develops an alternative, subversive way to exist and express his rage. As Dale walks defiantly from the prison in the last scene to be tried, the failure of the correctional system to produce docile, disciplined bodies pulls its last punch. Even if the system has enframed Dale he has maintained his sanity and his voice.

Two Hands

Gregor Jordan

Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown

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.

Broken Highway

Laurie McInnes

Aden Young, David Field

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.

BlackJack: At the Gates

Peter Andrikidis

Colin Friels, Marta Dusseldorp

Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has comes to Jack for help. Jack agrees to look into the still unsolved crime but in looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. In the end, Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.

Dadah Is Death

Jerry London

Julie Christie, Hugo Weaving

On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.

Hell Has Harbour Views

Peter Duncan

Matt Day, Lisa McCune

Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.