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Redfern Now Season Two

The highly celebrated and multi award winning drama of 2012.

Recipient of Most Outstanding Drama at this year’s TV Week Logie Awards, the critically acclaimed Redfern Now returns with another extraordinary season.

With 5 AACTA Award nominations and 3 TV Week Logie Award nominations the first season of Redfern Now received:

Silver TV Week Logie Award Most Outstanding Drama 2012 Redfern Now Silver TV Week Logie Award Most Outstanding New Talent Shari Sebbens AACTA Award Best Script in a Television Drama Steven McGregor AACTA Award Best Actress in a Television Drama Leah Purcell Australian Directors Guild Award Best Direction in a TV Drama Rachel Perkins for Pretty Boy Blue

Celebrated by audiences and critics alike, Redfern Now is produced by some of Australia’s finest creatives in collaboration with internationally acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern (Redfern Now, The Street, Cracker, The Lakes) as Story Producer.

The powerful, heartbreaking and uplifting stories of the second 6 x 1 hour season have been written by Leah Purcell, Wayne Blair, John Bell, Adrian Russell Wills and the AACTA Award winning Steven McGregor and are directed by Wayne Blair, Adrian Russell Wills, Beck Cole, Leah Purcell and Australian Director’s Guild Award winning director Rachel Perkins (Pretty Boy Blue).

Season one characters returning are those portrayed by Wayne Blair, this year’s Most Outstanding Actress Logie winner Deborah Mailman, Ursula Yovich, Tessa Rose, Marley Sharp, Bruce Carter, Richard Green, Ewen Leslie, Lisa Flanagan, Stephen Curry, Dean Daley-Jones, Rarriwuy Hick, Aaron McGrath, and the AACTA Award winning Leah Purcell. They are joined by Craig McLachlan, Ernie Dingo, Hamish Michael, Meyne Wyatt, Caren Pistorius, Sibylla Budd, Alicia Gardiner, Tammy Clarkson, Chris Haywood, Maya Stange, Sarah Snook, Steve Bisley and Sarah Woods.

Sally Riley, Head of ABC TV’s Indigenous Department said “Audiences can be assured that the second season of Redfern Now will be every bit as distinctive and surprising as the first, with bold storytelling and loads of heart.”

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Blackfella Films’ Darren Dale and Miranda Dear said, “With the outstanding response to Redfern Now, we are thrilled to be coming back with a second season, where we will bring six more exciting Indigenous stories to prime time. We are so thrilled to have attracted a cast and crew of this calibre. It is a testament to the power of the writing, the resonance of the stories and the success of the first season.”

Once again working closely with the writers, Story Producer Jimmy McGovern said, “I have loved every minute of my involvement in this. It’s one of the most interesting and rewarding things I’ve done in over thirty years of screenwriting.”

Redfern Now is produced by Blackfella Films in association with ABC TV, Screen Australia and Screen NSW.

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Key Creatives

Executive Producers Sally Riley Erica Glynn

Producers Darren Dale Miranda Dear

Story Producer Jimmy McGovern

Writers Where the Heart is Adrian Russell Wills Starting Over Jon Bell Babe in Arms Steven McGregor Consequences Leah Purcell Pokies Steven McGregor Dogs of War Wayne Blair

Directors Where the Heart is Adrian Russell Wills Starting Over Rachel Perkins Babe in Arms Adrian Russell Wills Consequences Leah Purcell Pokies Beck Cole Dogs of War Wayne Blair

Casting Anousha Zarkesh

Director of Photography Mark Wareham ACS Jules O’Loughlin ACS

Production Designer Felicity Abbott APDG

Costume Designer Lisa Meagher

Editors Dany Cooper ASE Nick Holmes

Line Producer Scott Hartley

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Where the Heart Is Written and Directed by Adrian Russell Wills

Margaret Noni Hazlehurst Peter Kirk Page Richard Oscar Redding Lorraine Deborah Mailman Steven Hamish Michael Luis Josef Bur Amy Saskia Williscroft

When Amy’s dad Richard is in an accident, her other father Peter fights to retain custody of her, but is hamstrung by his own recklessness.

Richard (Oscar Redding) and Peter (Kirk Page) are a loving couple who have made a life, family, and home for themselves raising their daughter, Amy (Saskia Williscroft). Like every other couple they have found themselves in a funk, and with pressure from work and tension increasing, Peter and Richard start arguing.

But in just one morning their whole world is shattered when Richard is involved in a freak car accident. As Richard lies on life support, Peter is the one who has to break the news to Richard’s estranged mother, Margaret (Noni Hazlehurst). It is the call a mother never wants to get and one Peter doesn’t want to make. Richard’s condition goes from bad to worse and as his next of kin, Peter is faced with the heartbreaking decision of switching Richard’s life support off. Under protest from Margaret the decision is made.

Months later at the coroner’s inquest it is revealed that Peter could have played a small part in Richard’s accidental death, news that Margaret does not take well. Peter struggles to come up for air through his grief, finding comfort in other men. When Margaret discovers what Peter is doing, and so soon after her son’s death, she files for full custody of Amy in a bid to get back what is left of her son and her family.

Peter cant believe that the judge will find against him, but when Margaret shows up to the family court with a team of lawyers and a well prepared case, the threat of losing custody of Amy becomes all too real. Peter’s best friend Lorraine (Deborah Mailman) decides its time for a few home truths: quit the drinking, quit the smoking, quit the self pity. At first its hard to hear, but Peter realizes that Lorraine is right and that he is going to have to fight like hell to keep the thing he loves most in all the world, Amy.

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Noni Hazlehurst is Margaret One of Australia's favourite and most respected actors and presenters, Noni Hazlehurst is a celebrated film, theatre and television actor, a beloved Playschool presenter and Better Homes and Gardens host. She undoubtedly has one of the most impressive and wide-ranging career portfolios in the business.

With filming recently completed on feature film The Mule, Noni’s further film credits include Bitter and Twisted, Candy, Little Fish, Waiting, Australian Dream, Fran, Stations, Monkey Grip, Fatty Finn and The Getting of Wisdom.

Most recently seen in the Seven Network series A Place to Call Home and soon to be seen in The Broken Shore for ABC TV, her further television credits include lead roles in City Homicide Series 1 – 4 for the Seven Network, The Librarians, Stepfather of the Bride, Waiting at the Royal, Clowning Around, Fields of Fire III, Naked Under Capricorn, Nancy Wake, The Shiralee, Weekly’s War, Waterfront, And Here Comes Bucknuckle Lil, Ride On Stranger and Bit Part, as well as guest lead roles in Twisted Tails and Follies for ABC TV.

The winner of the Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and nominated for the Milan International Film Festival Best Actress Award for her role in Bitter and Twisted, Noni has received two TV Week Silver Logie Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Mini-series for Waterfront and Ride On Stranger, four AFI Awards (Little Fish, Waiting At The Royal, Fran, Monkey Grip) and eight AFI nominations, as well as an Order of Australia Medal (OAM), to name but a few of the honours bestowed upon her. She added another award to an impressive list when she was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Flinders University in South Australia.

During her time on Playschool she recorded many albums and appeared in many children’s concerts together with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She continues to work with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

A National Ambassador for children's charity Barnardos, and advocate for many children's literacy programs, Noni is also an in-demand writer, penning articles for newspapers and magazines and contributing to several books. Her 2012 speech at Currency House’s Arts and Public Life Breakfast was widely reported and reproduced. She has served on numerous boards, including Film Australia and Belvoir St Theatre and currently sits on the ACCTA board.

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Kirk Page is Peter Widely acclaimed for his physical theatre, aerial and dance work, Kirk has appeared in Martin del Amo’s Slow Dances for Fast times. He also performed at the Catapult Festival for the Bathurst Regional Council, Ochres for Bangarra Dance Theatre, which toured Australia and internationally, A Midsummer Night's Dream for Opera Australia and performed numerous times for Legs on the Wall, in productions including Eora Crossing and Runners Up.

In music theatre, Kirk has appeared in Priscilla for Back Row Productions, The Sunshine Club for Sydney Theatre Company, Corrugation Road for Black Swan Theatre Company and most recently, One Night the Moon for Malthouse Theatre.

His theatre credits include Silent Disco for Griffin Theatre Company, The Dreamers and Conversations with the Dead for Belvoir, My Girragundji for Bell Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream for Sydney Theatre Company, Australia the Show! for Hothouse Theatre and Death in Bowengabbie for Merrigong Theatre Company.

On screen, Kirk played the lead in Bloodlines for SBS Films and the Australian Film Commission and also appeared in the film Shadow Play for Porchlight Films.

As a movement director Kirk has worked in film, television and theatre. Having worked on the ABC's My Place and on feature film Bran Nue Day for Robyn Kershaw Productions, in 2006 he also choreographed the Indigenous section of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games My Skin, My Life.

Kirk was also an assistant director for Bloodland (STC) and worked as an outside eye for Posts in the Paddock My Darling Patricia.

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Deborah Mailman is Lorraine One of Australia’s most celebrated actors, Deborah Mailman received national acclaim in 1998 winning both the AFI and Film Critics’ Circle Award for Most Outstanding Actress for her portrayal of Nona in the film Radiance. Since then she has worked extensively in film, television and theatre and is most recognised for her role as Kelly in the television series The Secret Life of Us.

With filming recently completed on Jack Irish – Dead Point for ABC TV, Deborah’s other television credits include the role of Cherie in Southern Star’s highly acclaimed production Offspring, the role of Lorraine in Redfern Now Season 1 which won the 2013 TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama Series, the role of Bonita Mabo in the critically acclaimed film Mabo, as well as lead guest roles in Rush, The Alice and Bryan Brown’s Two Twisted. Deb was also a regular television presenter, hosting Playschool and Message Sticks for the ABC and Lonely Planet’s Going Bush for SBS.

Mabo was Deborah's third collaboration with director Rachel Perkins, having also appeared in Bran Nue Dae and Radiance. Deborah’s extensive film credits include Dear Claudia, The Monkey’s Mask, Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit Proof Fence, Ana Kokkinos’ The Book of Revelation and Lucky Miles.

In 2011 Deborah completed production of PJ Hogan’s Mental and Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires, which had its world premiere to a standing ovation at the prestigious Midnight Screening at Cannes Film Festival and went on to receive a worldwide release.

Deborah’s most recent theatre credits include the role of Antigone for Company B and performances in Mother Courage and her Children, The Lost Echo, The Bourgeois Gentlemen and Tales from Vienna Woods for the STC Actors Company. Other credits include As You Like It, The Small Poppies, Aliwa, and The Sapphires for Belvoir St Theatre, Barrie Kosky’s production of King Lear for Bell Shakespeare, One Woman’s Song and Radiance for QTC and The Taming of the Shrew for La Boite Theatre. Her one woman show The Seven Stages of Grieving co–devised with director Wesley Enoch, toured both nationally and internationally to the London International Festival of Theatre and Zurich Arts Festival to critical acclaim.

Deborah recently made her directorial debut with the short film Ralph which premiered at the 2009 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival and won The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film in the same year.

Deborah’s outstanding performances have been acknowledged, amongst many others, with three TV Week Silver Logie Awards for Most Outstanding Actress in a Television Series for Mabo and twice for The Secret Life of Us, a 2013 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress for The Sapphires, the Matilda Award for her stage performances in both Radiance and The Seven Stages of Grieving, the Helpmann Award for Best Supporting Actress in the STC production of The Lost Echo, a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Actress in the theatre production of The Sapphires; the 2007, 2010 and 2011 Deadly Award for Best Female Actor and in 2003 was named NAIDOC Person of the Year. Deborah was the recipient of the 2010 InStyle Women of Style Award for her contribution to Arts and Culture. In 2010 Deborah won AFI Awards for her roles in Offspring and Bran Nue Dae. Most recently Deb received the 2012 Deadly Award for her portrayal of Bonita Mabo in the critically acclaimed film Mabo on the ABC.

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Hamish Michael is Steven Born in Melbourne, Australia, but raised in Tasmania, Hamish has worked as an actor for over a decade. Most recently he has featured in the award-winning mini-series Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War as Aussie cricketer Dougie Walters, and as anxious young lawyer Richard Stirling in the ABC TV legal drama Crownies, a role he recently revisited in the new mini-series Janet King. Also in 2013 Hamish will appear as Bruce Gyngell in the mini-series Power Games: The Packer – Murdoch War and as a 1920s film producer in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. His other television credits include Spirited, City Homicide, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, The Heartbreak Tour, Blue Heelers, Stingers and The Secret Life of Us.

His film credits include the features The Great Gatsby, Lucky Miles, Em 4 Jay and Tom White, and the shorts Heaven, Ingrid Sits Holding a Knife, Homesick, Sweetness & Light, Heartworm and The Only Person in the World.

Hamish’s extensive list of theatre credits include Death of a Salesman and As You Like It for Belvoir, The Trial, Optimism, Woyzeck, Moving Target and Eldorado for the Malthouse Theatre, Ray’s Tempest and Two Brothers for Melbourne Theatre Company Meat Party for Playbox Theatre Company and Sweet Staccato Rising for Theatre in Decay, to name a few.

In 2012 Hamish was nominated for the peer-voted Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent at the TV Week Logie Awards for his work in Crownies. He received a 2008 Green Room Award as part of Best Ensemble for Moving Target. In 2007 he received a Green Room Awards Nomination for Best Male Performer for his roles in both Eldorado and Ray’s Tempest and in 2006 he received a Helpmann Award Nomination for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for Two Brothers, his main-stage debut.

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Josef Bur is Luis Since graduating from NIDA in 1997, Josef Bur has worked solidly on Australian television, theatre and film.

Josef was cast as one of the lead roles in Channel Nines’ successful police drama Rush. Josef appeared in series 1, 2 and 3 of the hit show in his role of Dominic.

His most recent television role was in the critically acclaimed ABC series Devils Dust. Other television roles include McLeods Daughters, Tricky Business, Wild Boys, Love My Way and The Alice.

Some of Josef’s extensive theatre credits include Porn Cake and Tiger Country for the Griffin Theatre. Responsive Project # 2 for Sydney Theatre Company, Run Rabbit Run for Belvoir, The Tempest for Bell Shakespeare and Grease which toured Australia and New Zealand as part of the Gordon Frost Organisation.

Film credits include Things to Do (Tropfest finalist for 2011), Plains Empty, The Junction Boys and Ned.

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Starting Over Directed by Rachel Perkins Written by Jon Bell

Aaron Davis Wayne Blair Allie Lisa Flanagan Robyn Rarriwuy Hick Indigo Dean Daley-Jones Constable Ryan Hobbs Stephen Curry Aunty Mona Trisha Morton Thomas Nathan Richard Green

After his involvement in a tragic event that rocked the local community, Aaron Davis is trying to find his place in the world again, with the help of his family, therapy, and a new love prospect.

Aaron’s (Wayne Blair) life as he knows it has been completely turned upside down since the tragic death of Lenny, an Aboriginal teenager who died in police custody when Aaron was on shift. His career in the force is on hold whilst he goes through psychological assessment. And in fact he’s not even sure going back to the police force is what he wants. He is being ostracised from the local Redfern community, he can’t even enjoy a beer at the local ‘Koorioke’ as the bartender refuses to serve him. Aside from the shining beacons that are his daughter, Robyn (Rarriwuy Hick), and granddaughter, Donna, things are pretty dim for Aaron. That is until romance sparks with his very attractive neighbour, Allie (Lisa Flanagan). The only problem is that Aaron has just been involved in the arrest of Allie’s partner, Indigo (Dean Daley-Jones). And although it was Allie who called the police after Indigo hit her – it’s not a good look.

Determined to get on with life without Indigo, Allie makes the bold move of attending the local ‘Koorioke’ with her bruised eye on display, a move that is frowned upon by her local community. It is here that Allie and Aaron, both on the outer, bond over their mutual experiences of being treated like outsiders in their small community. And it is not long before their newfound friendship turns into something more serious - although several hurdles will need to be overcome if they are going to be together.

In trying to get his life back on track, Aaron will feel his way through the new challenges he faces to discover whether rejoining the police force is ultimately the right decision.

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Wayne Blair is Aaron Davis And writer/director of Dogs of War As an actor, Wayne’s work includes the theatre productions of Jessus Hopped the Train, Stuff Happens, Run Rabbit Run, Conversations with the Dead, The Sapphires, The Dreamers and Cloudstreet (International Tour) for Belvoir. For the Sydney Theatre Company he has appeared in True West, Tot Mom, The Sunshine Club, Inheritance and The Cherry Pickers. Wayne appeared in Queensland Theatre Company’s productions of The Sunshine Club, Black-ed Up and Loaded Stories. Other theatre credits include Skin with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Othello and Romeo and Juliet, for the Bell Shakespeare Company; and for Kooemba Jdarra, Black Shorts and Purple Dreams.

His television credits include Small Claims, Fireflies, Backberner, Water Rats, All Saints and Wildside. Wayne’s film credits include Wish You Were Here, X, The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg, Blessed and Mullet.

Wayne directed the feature film The Sapphires, which premiered out of competition at Cannes and was a commercial and critical success. The film was the highest grossing Australian film of 2012 and the won eleven AACTA Awards, including Best Film and Best Director.

Wayne has written and directed several acclaimed short films; among them The Djarn Djarns which won the Crystal Bear Prize for Best Short in the Kinderfilmfest Section of the Berlin International Film Festival and Black Talk which won the Dendy Award.

For television, Wayne directed episodes of television series The Gods of Wheat Street; sketch comedy The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knifefighting; and landmark Indigenous series Redfern Now for ABC TV which won a 2012 TV Week Logie Award. His other directing credits include Lockie Leonard Series 1 and 2 for the Nine Network, Dead Gorgeous for the BBC and Double Trouble for Caama Productions. Wayne wrote the episode 1788 of My Place series 2 for ABC TV, an episode of the second series of Lockie Leonard and an episode for the second series of The Circuit, which won an AWGIE Award for Best Original miniseries.

For theatre, Wayne directed the sell-out season of Brendan Cowell’s Ruben Guthrie at Belvoir; and The Removalists, The 7 Stages Of Grieving and Romeo and Juliet for STC. Wayne wrote Bloodland from a concept by Stephen Page and Kathy Marika for STC; the play toured to Adelaide Festival and Queensland Theatre Company.

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Lisa Flanagan is Allie With numerous credits to her name, Lisa Flanagan is best known for her outstanding portrayals of Clarence in the Paul Goldman feature Australian Rules and more recently Anna in Sarah Watt’s Look Both Ways. Her other film credits include Spike Up, The September Project, Opal Dream, Queen of Hearts, Free – 2002 POV, Say No and Black & White directed by Craig Lahiff.

On television Lisa was the lead role of Libby in Gods of Wheat Street, as well as appearing in City Homicide, All Saints and as a series regular in Double Trouble directed by Wayne Blair.

On stage Lisa has performed the one woman show 7 Stages of Grieving at the State Theatre SA, Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, as well as appeared in the productions of Parramatta Girls at the Belvoir, My Girragundji for Canute Productions, and The Sapphires for MTC/Company B Belvoir.

Rarriwuy Hick is Robyn Rarriwuy is an actress, dancer and choreographer. As a dancer she is a founder of a dance group Yapa Mala and a guest chorographer and co-host for Move It Mob Style.

As an actress she played Juliette in Nigel Jamieson’s play Wrong Skin at the Opera House and more recently was in Bloodland for Sydney Theatre Company. She appeared on the small screen in the critically acclaimed AACTA and TV Week Logie Award winning series Redfern Now.

She will soon appear in The Gods Of Wheat Street, Brendan Cowell’s production The Outlaw Michael Howe and Broken Shore alongside Wayne Blair, Claudia Karvan, Don Hany and Robin Nevin.

She has also appeared in the short films The Hunter directed by Margaret Harvey, Scar with Toronto’s Imagine Native Film Festival winning director Tiffany Parker and She Say directed by Leah Purcell.

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Dean Daley-Jones is Indigo Trained in dance, theatre and drama at the John Curtin School of Performing Arts - West Australian Aboriginal actor and Nyoongar tribe member, Dean Daley-Jones launched his feature film career playing the lead in the critically acclaimed Mad Bastards. Directed by Brendan Fletcher, the film was selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2011, and was winner of the Deadly Awards’ Film of the Year 2011. Dean was also nominated as Best Actor for this role in the inaugural AACTA Awards (previously known as the AFI Awards) in 2012.

On the back of this success, Dean has also appeared in Ivan Sven's Toomelah, selected for Un Certain Regard 2011 at the Cannes Film Festival and the feature film Satellite Boy. Early on in his career Dean also appeared in films such as Shame directed by Steve Jodrell.

Dean takes an active role in mentoring other Indigenous people with visits to community and correctional centres Australia-wide. Dean hopes his words will help inspire others to initiate changes and turn their lives around, just as he has done. Dean was a Guest Speaker at Message Sticks 2012, the annual festival celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists at the Sydney Opera House. Dean was recently seen in the ABC TV series Redfern Now, directed by Leah Purcell, and has just wrapped on another ABC series The Gods of Wheat Street, to be screened in 2013.

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Stephen Curry is Constable Ryan Hobbs Multi-award winning actor Stephen Curry became a household name with his breakout role in the Australian feature film The Castle, playing the character of Dale Kerrigan.

His other feature credits include Save Your Legs, The Cup, Rogue, Thunderstruck, The Night We Called It A Day, Take Away, The Nugget, The Wogboy, Cut and Silver Strand. He also appeared in the IF Award nominated Best Short Film for 2008 You Better Watch Out.

On television Stephen is best known for his outstanding portrayal of Graham Kennedy, in the 2007 Fremantle Media & TV1 biopic, The King, receiving many awards including an AFI Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, the Silver TV Week Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama and the ASTRA Award for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor. His other television credits include most recently Mr & Mrs Murder, Time of Our Lives, Redfern Now, Rake 2, Cliffy and cloudstreet, as well as Wilfred, 30 Seconds, False Witness, The Informant, The Secret Life of Us, Changi, Frontline, Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude, Day of the Roses and Mary Bryant to name a few.

Host of the 2008 AFI Awards, Stephen has performed in various theatre shows including The Writers for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013 and the famous sketches of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore in Good Evening (a two hander with Shaun Micallef) at the Sydney Opera House, the Melbourne Comedy Festival and in Brisbane and Perth.

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Rachel Perkins Director of Starting Over An independent director and producer, Rachel Perkin’s Australian Aboriginal heritage (Arrernte/Kalkadoon nations) has informed her filmmaking in documentary and drama over her twenty year career. She has been an executive producer at SBS and ABC TV and has directed three dramatic features: Radiance, One Night the Moon and Bran Nue Dae. Her most recent feature Bran Nue Dae (2010), which she both directed and co- wrote, screened at Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals and achieved a box office of $7.5m in Australia. Rachel’s films have screened at over 75 film festivals around the world.

Most recently Rachel directed two episodes of the critically acclaimed drama Redfern Now, receiving the Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction in Television Drama for her episode Pretty Boy Blue. Previously she directed the celebrated film Mabo starring Deborah Mailman, who won the 2013 TV Week Silver Logie for her outstanding portrayal of Bonita Mabo, as well as Jimi Bani as Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo. Marking the 20th Anniversary of the historic High Court decision, Mabo had a special Gala Premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival before screening on ABC TV.

Her most recent documentary work, the seven-hour series First Australians (2009), which she wrote, directed and co-produced, was awarded Australia’s top documentary honours including the AFI and IF Awards, UN Media Peace Prize, TV Week Logie, Screen Writers and Directors Guild of Australia Awards. First Australians has sold throughout the world and is the highest selling educational title in Australia.

Rachel’s other documentary productions include the series Blood Brothers on which she was one of the writers, directors and producers as well as Spirit to Spirit - an international co- venture of Indigenous partners from New Zealand, Scandinavia, Canada and Australia.

Most recently, Rachel was honoured to receive the inaugural Contribution to Television IF Award at the 2011 Jameson IF Awards.

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Babe in Arms Directed by Adrian Russell Wills Written by Steven McGregor

Justin Myles Meyne Wyatt Janine Myles Caren Pistorius Norman Sam Conway Dottie Melodie Reynolds Detective Morris Sibylla Budd

New parents, Janine (Caren Pistorius) and Justin (Meyne Wyatt) are tested to their limit when their newborn son goes missing and suspicions grow in the community and between each other.

Janine and Justin have welcomed their first child, a son, into the world. Their dreams and hopes for their new life quickly unravel as Janine struggles with the responsibility of looking after a newborn. While Justin spends his days at work Janine spends her days caring for their son. This proves to be more of a challenge than she expected. The child won’t settle, won’t feed, won’t sleep – Janine is way out of her depth. She has no family support of her own, outside of Justin, and her sense of isolation is exacerbated by the feeling that Justin’s parents disapprove of him marrying a white girl. Sleep deprivation and the end of her once ordered life places a strain on her relationship with her new son and her husband.

Justin’s insistence that caring for a child is in every women’s DNA doesn’t go over well with Janine, which sparks a huge argument that sees Justin storm off for some much needed peace and quiet.

This triggers an incident, which is every parent’s nightmare – their son goes missing. The authorities are called, a media blitz is undertaken and professional mourners set up vigil outside the family home. As the days roll on, and there is no word or clue as to the whereabouts of the child, suspicion switches to the parents. This is magnified further through a neighbour’s observations of the baby crying all hours of the day and night. And the fact that Janine reveals, during a media plea, that they had not named their son fuels suspicion.

Justin is supportive of his wife and refuses to believe that she had anything to do with the disappearance. But with the court of public opinion swirling around them, and Justin’s parents professing their doubt over Janine’s version of events, Justin soon begins to suspect his wife may have had something to do with the disappearance of their child.

What transpires is a collision of love and loyalty versus fact. Justin must decide who to believe - his wife, or the evidence.

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Meyne Wyatt is Justin Myles Kalgoorlie bred Meyne Wyatt was just 18 when he was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Graduating in 2010 Meyne has since created a buzz in the industry with non stop theatre productions and film work.

Meyne firstly delivered a powerful performance in The Stables Theatre’s The Brothers Size, followed by a stand out performance as alienated Aboriginal teen Squid in Griffin Theatre’s Silent Disco, for which he was named Best Newcomer in the 2011 Sydney Theatre Awards. From there, he stepped onto Sydney Theatre Company’s main stage in the Stephen Page production of Bloodland (which also toured to the Adelaide Festival and QPAC in 2012).

In early 2012, Meyne was seen in for Belvior Street/Urban Theatre Project/Sydney Festival co- production of The Buried City. He followed this with the lead role of Horace in Bell Shakespeare’s national tour of The School for Wives. In early 2013, Meyne starred in the lead role of Ralph Meyers production of Peter Pan at Belvoir St Theatre.

On screen Meyne appeared in Wayne Blair’s highly celebrated feature The Sapphires, which premiered at a midnight screening at the Cannes Film Festival last year. He also starred in one of the short films comprising the feature film The Turning, based on Tim Winton’s short story collection of the same name. Meyne will also appear in a guest role in the ABC telemovie The Broken Shore.

Meyne’s other theatre credits include NIDA productions of The Lord of the Flies, The Hour We Know Nothing of Each Other, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Threepenny Opera, Hamlet and Gift. Prior to attending NIDA, Meyne also gained a Certificate IV in Aboriginal Theatre from WAAPA. During his time there, he acted in commissioned work Frankenstein as Clerval and in The Lion of Nemea by David Milroy.

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Caren Pistorius is Janine Myles Caren Pistorius was most recently seen in series four of Network Ten’s popular drama, Offspring and the ABC telemovie, Paper Giants 2: Magazine Wars in 2013.

Caren’s other television credits include the New Zealand television series, The Blue Rose for TV3, and the Disney series, Legend of the Seeker.

She made her feature film debut in The Most Fun You Can Have Dying, directed by Kirstin Marcon.

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Adrian Russell Wills Director of Babe in Arms and Where the Heart Is Writer of Where the Heart Is Adrian Russell Wills is a filmmaker with a passion for telling stories that challenge the audience, always seeking the unusual and the unique. To entertain is to pack a punch, leaving audiences thinking about the world they were taken into days later. This approach defines his career, which began in 1999 with his award winning short film Angels. From there he went on to study directing at AFTRS, directing short films and short documentaries before making the transition to documentary with the critically acclaimed Our Bush Wedding in 2005. The one-hour film screened on SBS as part of the NIDF Loved Up Series. Adrian continued exploring the documentary form, co-writing and directing When the Natives Get Restless (2007), a confronting exploration of racism and disadvantage in Dubbo, NSW.

In 2006, Adrian was chosen as one of thirteen directors to take part in the highly acclaimed Bit of Black Business Drama Initiative through the Australian Film Commission. He also wrote and directed short films Jackie Jackie, the film screening at Melbourne International Film Festival, Flickerfest and overseas at Santa Barbara Film Festival and Bourke Boy. Bourke Boy was developed through the Screen Australian Indigenous Unit for ABC, screening at local and international Film Festivals and awarded the Best Indigenous Film at St Kilda Film Festival in 2010. That same year he was named by Margaret Pomeranz as one of her top ten filmmakers to watch as part of Sydney’s 10x10 Creative. He also had two projects selected to open the 2010 Message Stick Film Festival, documentary Boxing for Palm Island and the short Daniel’s 21st.

More recently, Adrian has moved into writing and directing television drama. He has directed an episode of the Southern Star/Network Ten series Rush. He has also written an episode of the Blackfella produced drama series Redfern Now, which screened on the ABC in 2012 and was recently one of the directors on the ABC series The Gods of Wheat Street, produced by Every Cloud Productions.

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Consequences Written and Directed by Leah Purcell

Mattie Collinson Tammy Clarkson Patricia Collinson Kylie Belling Jack Mikkel Craig McLachlan Susan Mikkel Sarah Woods Richard Mikkel Steve Bisley Brenda Mikkel Alicia Gardiner

Graduating with First Class Honours, Mattie thinks she has fulfilled her need for pride and independence from a complicated family history – until she receives the news of the death of her white father and resolves to get recognition.

A 35 year old, high achieving Aboriginal woman, Mattie (Tammy Clarkson) has just received a PHD in Cultural Anthropology.

She races to share the news with her estranged white father, Jack, (Craig McLachlan) who she hasn’t seen in 19 years. She wants to gloat. She wants to thank him for leaving her Aboriginal Mother Patricia (Kylie Belling) and herself when she was ten years old. A decision that had a huge impact on Mattie and Patricia’s life. But she has succeeded without him. She makes the call only to discover it is Richard (Steve Bisley), Jack’s older brother who answers the phone. He informs her that Jack died two days earlier.

Mattie is determined that Jack’s family – her white family – will accept her. So she sets out to drive herself back to Sydney to confront Jack’s wife and other children. As Mattie drives from Canberra to Sydney, we travel back with her to her memories of the time she spent with her Dad as a child. When she gets to Sydney she goes straight to Jack’s Butcher’s Shop, but discovers that it is now a café run by her half sister Brenda (Alicia Gardiner). She manages to strike up a conversation with Brenda but decides it would be best to wait until the funeral to reveal her hand.

Mattie attends Jack’s funeral, intent on placing her graduation photograph on his coffin and telling the congregation about her relationship to Jack. Before Mattie can do this, Brenda recognizes her from the café and realises that the conversation they had at the coffee shop about dead fathers was not a coincidence. When Mattie insists on speaking at the funeral, this leads to a very heated confrontation between them, with Brenda determined to stop Mattie from hurting her grieving mother. In the end Mattie must decide for herself whether to reveal the truth to all.

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Tammy Clarkson is Mattie Best known for her TV Week Silver Logie Award winning role as series lead Bella in The Circuit for SBS/Media World, Tammy received the 2008 award for Most Popular New Talent. Graduating with a Diploma of Performing Arts from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1999, she went on to receive the WMC Indigenous Scholarship for Artists with Excellence in 2000.

A seasoned theatre actress, her professional credits include Don Coyote Man of the Mallee, Rainbows End and A Midsummer Night’s Dream all for Mildura Arts Festival, The Sapphires for Melbourne Theatre Company, Blak Inside and Casting Doubts for Ilbijemi/Playbox Theatre and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Sydney Theatre Company’s Festival Of Dreaming. Whilst at WAAPA Tammy also appeared in a number of theatre productions and the film How to Host a Relationship Break-Up.

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Craig McLachlan is Jack One of Australia's most celebrated and versatile actors, Craig McLachlan was awarded Australian television's greatest honour - the TV Week Gold Logie Award in 1990.

First appearing on television in Sons and Daughters, Craig became well known for his role as Henry Ramsay in Neighbours and later Grant Mitchell in Home and Away. Craig’s other television credits include the role of Kane Morgan in McLeod’s Daughters, the popular British television series Bugs, as well as City Homicide, The Cut, At Home with Julia, Lowdown, Packed to the Rafters, Rescue Special Ops Season 4 and in 2011 had a guest starring role for CBS television's NCIS: Los Angeles.

In 2013 Craig received acclaim in the title role of Lucien Blake in the ABC TV/ITV drama The Doctor Blake Mysteries and has most recently been seen in the role of Damo in Channel Nine's House Husbands. Craig is currently filming season two of Doctor Blake.

Craig's feature film credits include the American movie Superfire, Hating Alison Ashley and the major television movie Catherine the Great alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeanne Moreau and Omar Sharif.

On-stage, Craig has had a stellar career, with his first major role playing Danny Zuko to great acclaim in the 1993 West End revival of the musical Grease, which until this year held the UK West End box office record. In 2003 Craig played Frank ‘N Furter in The Rocky Horror Show before returning to London in 2005 to take over the role of Caracticus Potts in the London Palladium Production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang alongside Richard O’Brien. He most recently performed the role of Billy Flynn in Chicago in Australia and Asia.

Craig has also had major success as a singer and songwriter, achieving Australian and UK hit singles with such songs as Amanda (AUS#23/UK#19, 1990), On My Own (AUS#23, 1991) and the now classic remake of the Bo Diddley song Mona (AUS#3/UK#2, 1990). In 2011, British group Rixxel Kicks sampled McLachlan's Mona for their single Mama do the Hump, which made #2 on the Singles Chart.

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Steve Bisley is Richard One of Australia’s most recognisable actors, Steve Bisley is a graduate of NIDA.

His long list of outstanding feature credits include the iconic Australian films Newsfront, Mad Max, his AFI Award winning roles in both Silver City and The Big Steal. More recently Steve’s credits have included The Wedding Party, I Love You Too, Subdivision and Sanctuary.

On television Steve has created some of Australia’s most loved characters including Commander Steve Marshall on Sea Patrol, Water Rats’ Det Sgt Jack Christey and Senior Sgt Kevin ‘Nipper’ Harris on Police Rescue.

His other credits include Jack Irish, Lowdown, East of Everything, Stingers, GP, Boys From The Bush, The Flying Doctors, A Country Practice and the outstanding mini-series A Town Like Alice.

On stage Steve played Harry Mitchell in theatre production of The Sum of Us and Banjo Paterson in The Man From Snowy River Arena Spectacular.

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Sarah Woods is Susan Mikkell A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Sarah Woods has enjoyed an extensive career in film, theatre and television. Her film credits include Alagna Films poignant drama The Last Race, the comedy Accidents Happen which featured Geena Davis, as well as the multi- award winning film The Black Balloon.

Television credits include the critically acclaimed Rake, Series 1 and 2, Crownies, ABC’s comedy Laid and Seven Network’s All Saints. Sarah has also appeared in Small Claims, White Collar Blue, Backberner, Behind the Comedy Channel, Murder Call, State Coroner, Blue Heelers, Jimeoin and The Flying Doctors.

Sarah’s most recent theatre credits include The Nurse in Bell Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Gertrude in the Sydney Theatre Company’s education production of Hamlet and Black Milk at Downstairs Belvoir. Among her other theatre credits, she played Lady Macbeth for Bell Shakespeare and for Railway St Theatre Company, Olive in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Gwen in Away and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Sarah played the title role in Richard ll for the Melbourne Fringe Festival and she appeared in Matt Cameron’s award winning plays – Mr Melancholy for Griffin T.C./Neonheart Theatre Inc. and Footprints On Water for Chameleon Theatre Inc. Sarah was directed by Richard Roxburgh in the national tour of That Eye The Sky.

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Alicia Gardiner is Brenda A graduate of both the VCA and Monash University, Alicia Gardiner is best known for her role as Kim in Southern Star’s Offspring on Network TEN. Her other credits include Jack Irish: Bad Debts, Last Man Standing, Kath & Kim Season 3, After The Deluge, Dogwoman and Halifax fp.

On stage Alicia has played the role of Lucinda in Moliere’s Love Is The Best Doctor for Theatre Melbourne and the role of Ali in the Australian premiere season of Mamma Mia.

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Leah Purcell Writer & Director of Consequences and Grace in Pokies Leah Purcell is one of Australia’s leading actors, with award-winning roles in theatre, film and television. Her first professional break came in 1993 when she was cast in Bran Nue Dae, touring Australia to rave reviews. After moving to Sydney in 1995, she was one of the first presenters on the RED Music Channel on Galaxy Pay TV (later Foxtel). A regular role in ABC TV’s Police Rescue followed and in 1997 she was nominated for an Australian Film Industry (AFI) award for Best Actress in a TV Drama for her performance in Fallen Angels.

Since then, Leah has had an extensive on screen presence with film roles in Lantana, Lennie Cahill Shoots Through, Somersault, The Proposition and Jindabyne. Her television credits include GP, Water Rats, Beastmaster, The Lost World, Good Cop, Bad Cop; Starter Wife, Love My Way, McLeods Daughters, My Place and Redfern Now for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama. Not only did Leah play the lead role of Grace in the episode Family, but she also directed the episode Sweet Spot.

Leah conceived and co-wrote Box the Pony which was the smash hit of the 1997 Festival of the Dreaming and has since played to sell-out seasons at the Belvoir St. Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and a season at the Barbican Theatre in London for BITE: 2000. The published text of the play won the 1999 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the 2000 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Play. Purcell was nominated at the inaugural 2001 Sir Robert Helpmann Awards for Best Female Actor in a play for her performance in Box the Pony. Other theatre credits include Marriage of Figaro (QTC) opposite Geoffrey Rush, The Vagina Monologues, Dorothy Hewitt’s final play Nowhere (Melbourne International Arts Festival), Beasty Girl: The Secret Life of Errol Flynn (Melbourne International Arts Festival), for which she won a Green Room award (2004) for Best Actress; Neil Armfield’s Stuff Happens (Company B) for which Leah won the Deadly Award for Actor of the Year 2005.

She was also the recipient of the inaugural Bob Maza Fellowship award in 2006, as well as being nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Actress in a Leading role also for her portrayal of Condeleza Rice in Stuff Happens. Further credits include Stickybricks (Sydney Festival); The Good Body (Adelaide Fringe Festival); Parramatta Girls (Company B), The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table (Griffin Theatre, Malthouse Theatre & later at QPAC), she was nominated for this lead role as Best Actress in a Play for the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards & 2007 GLUG Theatre Awards; An Oak Tree (Belvoir downstairs); Michael Attenborough’s When the Rain Stops Falling (Almeida Theatre, London); Bell Shakespeare’s 20th Anniversary production of King Lear opposite John Bell; Blood Wedding (Sydney Theatre Co), The Dark Room (Company B). In late 2012 Leah co-wrote, directed and starred in the one- woman bio-play based on the life and times of Dr Ruby Langford-Ginibi, Don’t Take Your Love to Town for Belvoir St Theatre for which Leah was nominated for Best Actress in a Play at the 2013 Sydney Theatre Awards.

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Pokies Directed by Beck Cole Written by Steven McGregor

Nic Shields Ursula Yovich Eddie Shields Marley Sharp Joel Shields Aaron McGrath Grace Leah Purcell Mr Parish Ewen Leslie

Nic Shields’ lunchtime relief of pressing pokies leads her to become a victim of a robbery in a desperate attempt to absolve a whirlpool of deceit and debt.

Nic spends her lunch hour innocently enough down at her local workers club. It has become a ritual: a little lunch, a couple of games of Keno and a press on the pokies. What started out as a bit of fun has suddenly become a bit of a problem. Nic is chasing her losses and is sure the next press will pay. But the frequent trips to the ATM machine tell another story. Her bank balance is evaporating and to hide the true extent of her gambling from her husband Eddie, she has re-directed her bank statements to her cousin Grace’s house. This places a strain on their relationship but Nic assures Grace, she will sort it out by the end of the week.

Nic becomes increasingly preoccupied with her gambling trying to make more money to pay for Eddie’s fortieth birthday party, her son Joel’s school excursion and a major landscape improvement being undertaken in the family backyard. When the contractor requests a further down payment Nic panics and unleashes on the contractor and Eddie.

A few days later when Nic is on her way to bank her employers takings, she is robbed in broad daylight. The police are called and her family and work are sympathetic to the ordeal she has just experienced.

Nic struggles to take it easy following the robbery, wanting to go back to work immediately. She reluctantly accepts a small break from work and spends her free time playing the pokies. The police turn up at Nic and Eddie’s place during Eddie’s birthday party with the good news that the perpetrator of the robbery has been caught. All at the party rejoice at hearing the news except Nic who is ill at ease as the police insist she accompany them to the station. Things start to unravel rapidly for Nic when it is revealed that the thief is her nephew Robbie. Something Nic had known all along.

Nic is cornered and with the police closing in, and the knowledge that her husband and son will soon know the truth, Nic makes a decision that she believes will free her of the guilt and shame.

But can she escape the consequences of her actions that easily?

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Ursula Yovich is Nic Shields Growing up in the Northern Territory, in Darwin and Maningrida, Ursula has become one of Australia's most celebrated performers. She has amazed audiences all over the world, appearing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House.

In film Ursula has featured in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia and Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne. Other screen credits include Devil’s Dust, Redfern Now Season 1, Gods of Wheat Street, Murandak "Songs of Freedom" documentary, $9.99, Arcadia, My Bed Your Bed, Blacktrax, Message Stick, Blue Heelers and Songlines.

Her recent Theatre credits include Mother Courage at the Queensland Theatre Company, Bloodland for Sydney Theatre Company, The Magic Hour for Deckchair Theatre Company in Western Australia, The Barefoot Divas for Sydney Festival and Waltzing the Wilarra for Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company. Ursula was also nominated for a Helpmann Award for her cabaret show Magpie Blues, which world premiered in Adelaide and toured major venues across Australia.

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Marley Sharp is Eddie Shields An Australian Actor/Musician, Marley Sharp is from the KuKu Yalanji and Muluridji tribes of Tropical Far North Queensland.

Making his acting debut in 2007 with a guest role as Jason Freeman in The Circuit, Marley reprised the role as a series regular in The Circuit Season 2. Marley’s further acting credits include Redfern Now Season 1, the ABC TV telemovie Valentines Day, Richard J Frankland’s film Stone Bros and Rachel Perkins’ Bran Nue Dae.

With a passion for the creative arts, Marley started his career as a traditional Aboriginal dancer at the well renowned Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park in Cairns, Tropical North Queensland, before moving to radio presenting with Goolarri Media Enterprises, Broome Western Australia.

Most recently establishing the film production company Live Your Dreams Productions, Marley is also a musician, regularly performing with his band Black Boy Tree, as well as working in cultural development in and around his community.

Aaron McGrath is Joel Shields Aaron plays the role of Joseph in Sarah Spillane’s highly anticipated Australian film Around the Block. Most recently he played the title role in the documentary Jackey Jackey.

His burgeoning career also includes the role of Joel in Redfern Now Season 1, Garadi in My Place Series 2 directed by Catriona McKenzie, Jay in 360 Entertainment’s Your Choice and Young Odin in The Gods of Wheat Street.

Aaron’s other credits include the short film Destiny in the Dirt directed by Ella Bancroft and the 2013 Yellamundie Festival as part of Moogahlin Performing Arts Inc.

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Leah Purcell is Grace and Writer & Director of Consequences Leah Purcell is one of Australia’s leading actors, with award-winning roles in theatre, film and television. Her first professional break came in 1993 when she was cast in Bran Nue Dae, touring Australia to rave reviews. After moving to Sydney in 1995, she was one of the first presenters on the RED Music Channel on Galaxy Pay TV (later Foxtel). A regular role in ABC TV’s Police Rescue followed and in 1997 she was nominated for an Australian Film Industry (AFI) award for Best Actress in a TV Drama for her performance in Fallen Angels.

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Beck Cole Director A writer and director who hails from Alice Springs, Beck Cole is a member of the Warramungu people of Central Australia.

Following her 2011 debut feature Here I Am, Beck wrote and directed the dramas Plains Empty and Flat, both of which screened at Sundance Film Festival.

She also wrote and directed the documentaries Making Samson & Delilah, Wirriya: small boy, The Lore of Love and the acclaimed SBS history series First Australians: the untold story of Australia.

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Dogs of War Written and directed by Wayne Blair Ernie Ernie Dingo Evonne Katherine Beckett Derek Bruce Carter Jimmy Glenn Hazeldine Susie Maya Stange Aaron Davis Wayne Blair Officer Donaldson Sarah Snook Doctor Chris Haywood

The purchase of an undisciplined guard dog poisons relationships between Redfern neighbours and aggravates a malignant memory for an ex-serviceman, Ernie.

When Police investigate two burglaries on opposite sides of the same street, they note the perpetrators have targeted the homes because they are without dogs. Derek (Bruce Carter), father of two young children, purchases a mongrel German Shepherd to improve his security.

Evonne (Katherine Beckett), heavily pregnant, receives her father, Ernie (Ernie Dingo), a retired army drill sergeant, into her home. Ernie wastes no time installing new security windows and locks. In his raspy voice he’s critical of Evonne’s partner’s absence but grateful for his daughter’s hospitality. At night Ernie is afflicted by terrible nightmares from his period of service in the Army. He has a physical reaction to the memories and his night-yells trigger the neighbour’s new mongrel dog Toby, to start barking. Toby’s noise wakes up Evonne and Ernie’s nearest neighbours too, Jimmy (Glen Hazeldine) and his wife (Maya Stange), who have a young baby. Frustrations between the neighbours begin to mount. Derek’s efforts to train his new dog are treated with disdain by Ernie, who had experience handling service dogs in the Army. Evonne suggests he help them, but Ernie declines. He has no time for Derek. Ernie’s nightmares continue and Toby continues to bark at night in response, provoking another big confrontation in the street.

Meanwhile, Ernie has been coughing up blood regularly. When Evonne notices this, she forces Ernie to see a Doctor (Chris Haywood). Submitting to an examination and x-ray, Ernie is gutted to learn he has cancer. He withholds the terrible news from Evonne. Ernie’s nightmares and fearful yells persist and incite the worst showdown yet. Ernie gets into a brutal street fight with Derek. In nursing his wounds, Evonne learns from a reluctant Ernie about his cancer. The next morning screams wake the neighbourhood when Toby, and Derek’s daughter Naomi (Eliza Toomey) are found convulsing in the front yard. Both have apparently eaten dog bait.

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Jimmy is first to attend to the horrible scene, with an antidote for Naomi in the form of soda water, before the Paramedics attend quickly rushing Naomi to hospital. Ernie is troubled as the Police put Toby down. Derek and the rest of the neighbourhood suspect Ernie is responsible for the baiting.

Ernie returns to the clinic for a CT Scan. As his fears grow during the examination under the machine, the kernel of his nightmares is exposed: an incident when he was conducting a search assignment in Vietnam with a service dog. Soon after, Ernie recognises a turbulent situation in Jimmy’s house. Ernie’s suspicions grow. When Jimmy’s family put their house up for sale and Ernie considers Jimmy’s quick reaction to the baiting that saved Naomi’s life, Ernie discovers the truth that led to young Naomi’s poisoning.

As Derek and his children purchase a new dog, this time Ernie agrees to help them train it.

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Ernie Dingo is Ernie With filming recently completed on his new television series, Dingo Makes Tracks, in late 2012 Ernie worked on the series Serangoon Road for ABC TV.

A performer enormously respected for his extraordinary versatility, Ernie’s talents as an actor, television host, reporter and comedian have made him one of Australia’s best known and most loved performers, recently starring in the successful feature film Bran Nue Dae.

In 1979, Ernie was offered the lead role in the play Kullark in Perth. His subsequent theatre work includes a national tour of Jack Davis’ The Dreamers, a US tour of State of Shock in 1985 (which also played in Sydney and at the National Playwrights’ Conference in Canberra in 1984), Bran Nue Dae, Tourmaline, a visit to Poland with the Gardzienile Zubrycka Theatre Association as part of a Foreign Affairs cultural relations program in 1987 and working as a stand-up comic at Sydney’s Trade Union Club.

Ernie’s first major television role was in Tudawali (1987) for which he received an Australian Film Institute Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Drama. He accepted on behalf of the production a Special Jury Prize at the Banff Television Festival in Canada.

His numerous other television credits include The Cowra Breakout (1984), Dirtwater Dynasty (1987), Clowning Around (1991), A Waltz Through the Hills (1987), for which he won an AFI Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama, the comedy series Fast Forward (1989), The Flying Doctors (1992), Heartland (1994) and the lavish Barron Entertainment production of Kings in Grass Castles (1996) based on the novel by Dame Mary Durack.

Ernie’s film credits include Dead Heart (1996), The Fringe Dwellers (1985), Crocodile Dundee II (1987), Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1987), Capuccino (1988), Wim Winder’s Until the End of the World (1990) and Mr Electric (1993).

He was with the top rating Seven Network program The Great Outdoors since it began in 1992. Ernie also was the host of The World Around Us on the Seven Network from 1998 until 2001, and has fronted numerous other Seven productions, including two Olympic specials and Melbourne’s Comedy Gala. His most recent television productions are Outback Wildlife Rescue and No Leave No Life.

Ernie is a passionate advocate for his people and is vigilant about the portrayal of Aboriginals in film and television. He has won numerous awards and accolades and in 1997 was declared one of Australia’s Top 100 National Living Treasures. In 1990, Ernie was awarded the General Division of the Order of Australia by Her Majesty the Queen. In 1994, he was voted Aboriginal of the Year by the NAIDOC Committee and Personality of the Year by the Australian Caption Centre. In 2004 he was again recognised for his work when he was awarded the Deadly Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television.

He was awarded the 1999 People’s Choice Award for Favourite TV presenter – his fellow nominees in the category were Ray Martin, Daryl Somers and Bert Newton.

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Katherine Beckett is Evonne With a Diploma in Film and Television Productions from North Sydney College, Katherine is an actor, writer and filmmaker. She has worked on many projects including feature and short films, music programs, teenage programs, documentary programs, workshops and radio, as well as, corporate, multi-media, theatre and community projects.

As an actor, Katherine starred in the film clip for Tina Arena’s Entendds - Tu Le Monde and performed in Laugh Out Loud, an Indigenous comedy night held at Carriage Works.

Katherine’s filmmaking credits include work on Redfern Now Season 1, Aunty Maggie and The Womba Wakgun directed by mentor Leah Purcell, as well as a traineeship on Deborah Mailman’s short film Ralph.

Winner of the Ian Bowie Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Yvonne Cohen Award for her solo work-in-progress Coloured Digger’s, Katherine is currently creating her own writing piece through the 2009 Kickstart Program and Next Wave Festival. She recently completed “Step Up”, a 6-week residency program run through PACT Theatre, where she devised her own ten-minute theatre piece with mentors including Wesley Enoch, Kirk Page, Kyas Sheriff and Lisa Duff. Katherine is also involved in the community projects Gathering Grounds through PACT and Redfern Community Centre.

Bruce Carter is Derek With a natural acting ability and a passion for the arts, Bruce’s most recent credits include the role of Ares Freeburn in the telemovie The Gods of Wheat Street and Derek Jackson in the TV Week Logie Award winning drama Redfern Now Season 1, both for ABC 1.

Also playing the supporting role of Doug Bern in The Broken Shore, directed by Rowan Woods and Jeff in the 2010 feature film Here I Am, directed by Beck Cole, he has developed his acting prowess under the tutelage of some of Australia’s finest actors and filmmakers including David Field and Wayne Blair.

A Ngarrindjeri/Adnyamathanha man from Murray Bridge, Bruce is a man of many talents, doubling as actor and fourth electric on The Gods of Wheat Street and on Redfern Now Season 2.

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Glenn Hazeldine is Jimmy Glenn graduated from NIDA in 1994. His television appearances include roles in The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide To Knife Fighting, Tricky Business, At Home With Julia, All Saints, BlackJack, Corridors of Power, Stingers, Water Rats, Backberner, and the telemovie Dripping in Chocolate. Glenn made his feature film debut in the critically acclaimed Last Train To Freo directed by Jeremy Sims. Other film credits include The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg (an experimental project directed by Steven Soderbergh) and the short films My Mind’s Own Melody and The Mechanicals.

For the theatre his credits include A Hoax directed by Lee Lewis, Victory directed by Judy Davis, Tot Mom directed by Steven Soderbergh, Elling directed by Pamela Rabe, John Doyle’s The Pig Iron People directed by Craig Ilott, Tuesdays With Morrie directed by Mark Kilmurry, A View From The Bridge directed by Sandra Bates, All My Sons directed by Adam Cook, The Judas Kiss directed by Neil Armfield, Transparency directed by Tim Jones and As You Like It directed by John Bell. He has arguably spent more time in the plays of David Williamson than any other actor. He appeared in the world premiere productions of Dead White Males, Birthrights, A Conversation, Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica, Managing Carmen and Happiness, and in revivals of Sanctuary and Don’s Party.

He directed David Williamson’s One Night In Emerald City at the Malthouse (for the Corrilee Foundation), Stories From The 428 (Sidetrack Theatre) and was assistant director to Sandra Bates on Williamson’s Charitable Intent (Ensemble Theatre) and to Wayne Harrison on Defending the Caveman (Ross Mollison Productions).

Glenn is a proud member of the Equity branch of the MEAA and is a member of its National Performers Committee. He also sits on the management committee of the Actors Benevolent Fund of NSW.

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Maya Stange is Susie Maya went to John Curtin Performing Arts High School in Perth and got her first break when she was sixteen in the film Love in Limbo, opposite Russell Crowe. She has worked in theatre, film and television ever since.

Her Australian film credits include the upcoming film Galore plus Garage Days and In A Savage Land, both of which earned her AFI nominations. She worked with Mark Ruffalo in the New York independent film XX/XY and Isabella Rossellini in the Showtime pilot Filthy Gorgeous. In theatre, she has worked at Belvoir Street Theatre (Twelfth Night), the Sydney Theatre Company (Closer), the Melbourne Theatre Company (Pride and Prejudice), Playbox (The Conjurers), and The Griffin Theatre Company (Below).

Maya’s recent television credits include the Telemovies Wicked Love and The Great Mint Swindle both for the NINE Network, and appearances on Satisfaction, Tricky Business and Rake as well as Burn Notice in the US.

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Sarah Snook is Officer Donaldson One of Australia’s most exciting actresses, Sarah graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in 2008. She has since performed in feature films, theatre and television, receiving the 2012 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama for the ABC TV series Sisters Of War.

Her other television credits include Spirited Series 2, the Channel 9 Telemovie Blood Brothers, Packed To The Rafters, My Place and All Saints.

Her theatre credits include Rope and DNA (Tamarama Rock Surfers), S27, Lovely/Ugly: Transformer and Crestfall (Griffin Independent), and King Lear (State Theatre Company of South Australia).

Sarah performed alongside Emily Browning in the Julia Leigh film Sleeping Beauty, which was in competition at Cannes in 2011. She starred alongside Ryan Kwanten in Peter Templeman’s Australian comedy-drama Not Suitable For Children, which premiered at last year’s Sydney Film Festival and garnered her a Film Critics Circle of Australia award for Best Lead Actress, and a nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film at the 2013 AACTA Awards. More recently Sarah starred in the Lionsgate horror film Jessabelle directed by Kevin Greutert, as well as, These Final Hours and Predestination alongside Ethan Hawke.

Sarah was nominated for the 2011 Graham Kennedy Most Outstanding New Talent TV Week Logie Award for her performance in Sisters Of War and was announced as the runner up in the Australian’s In Film 2011 Heath Ledger Scholarship.

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Jimmy McGovern Story Producer With his writing often based on real events or socially vital issues, Liverpool born Jimmy McGovern has built a formidable reputation writing powerful dramas for the stage and screen.

McGovern’s writing credits read like a list of classic television. Having honed his skill working on Brookside, his major breakthrough came with Cracker, one of the best- loved UK television shows of recent history and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Script.

Jimmy’s other television credits include the 2013 TV Week Logie Awards’ Most Outstanding Drama Redfern Now, RSJ Production The Accused Series I & II for the BBC and The Street Series 1 – 3, which won the International Emmy for Best Drama Series 2007, RTS Award 2008, BAFTA for Best Drama Series 2007 & 2008 and RTS Best Drama Series 2008, as well as Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, Sunday, which won the FIPA D'OR 2005: Grand Prize for Best Script, Liam, the BAFTA- nominated Dockers and BAFTA-nominated The Lakes, Heart and The South Bank Show Award Winner for Best Television Drama 1996 and 1996 BAFTA award winner Hillsborough.

Of working on Redfern Now Jimmy McGovern said, “I have loved every minute of my involvement in this. It’s one of the most interesting and rewarding things I’ve done in over thirty years of screenwriting.”

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Mark Wareham ACS Episodes 1, 2 and 3 Director of Photography One of Australia’s foremost cinematographers, Mark Wareham’s extraordinary list of credits spans feature films, television movies, mini-series and documentaries.

With a talent and passion for creative collaboration, Mark is highly sought-after by Australian and international directors with credits ranging from projects as diverse as the stunning filmed opera Eternity Man directed by Julien Temple, to the award-winning television movie Scorched and the Sundance Film Festival hit Clubland, directed by Cherie Nowlan and starring Brenda Blethyn.

Mark’s other feature film credits include Boytown, The Extra, Crooked Business, The View from Greenhaven, The Kings of Mykynos and Save Your Legs, with second unit Director/DOP credits including Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid, The Condemned, Invincible, and the Triangle.

Most recently Mark has shot some of the most celebrated dramas in Australia including The Underbelly Files: Lucifer, Slide, Panic at Rock Island, the ABC series The Straits, as well as the 2013 TV Week Logie Award winner for Most Outstanding Drama, Redfern Now. He has also completed production on Felony directed by Matthew Saville and starring Joel Edgerton (writer, producer) Tom Wilkinson, Jai Courtney, and Melissa George.

Lauded for his beautiful photography on the critically acclaimed mini-series Tim Winton’s cloudstreet, Mark received the Judges Award at the 2011 Queensland Australian Cinematographers Awards, and the Australian Cinematographers highest accolade – The Golden Tripod. Mark was also recognized with a Distinction for his exceptional work on the celebrated television drama Underbelly: Razor.

Mark will soon begin shooting Matthew Saville’s Parer’s War later this year.

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Jules O’Loughlin ACS Episodes 4, 5 and 6 Director of Photography Jules O’Loughlin ACS is a Director of Photography specialising in film, 3D and high definition cinematography. His award winning body of work includes commercials, music videos, short films and the features Kokoda, September, I Am You, Lucky Country, Sanctum, Wish You Were Here and James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge.

Jules began his career in the arts as a photographer over 15 years ago and in that time travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He subsequently pursued a career in Cinematography and gained entry into the national film school, AFTRS, graduating in 2004. In 2005 Jules shot the feature Kokoda, directed by Alister Grierson, which won him an Australian Cinematography Society award, was accepted into the prestigious Camerimage, the International Festival of the Art of Cinematography held in Poland in 2006 and was nominated for an IF (Inside Film) Award and Film Critics Circle of Australia Award.

In 2006 Jules shot the feature film September, the first feature to be produced by John Polson and the Tropfest Feature Program and directed by Peter Carstairs. September, released in Australia in November 2007, has been selected to screen at the Melbourne, Toronto, Vancouver, Pusan, Rome and Berlin International Film festivals as well as in the Forum section of the Cannes Film Festival. September won Jules another Australian Cinematography Society award and the 2008 IF (Inside Film) Award for Best Cinematography.

In 2007 Jules shot the feature I Am You, which stars Guy Pearce, Sam Neill and Miranda Otto. It earned Jules an Australian Cinematography award in 2011 in the feature film category. In 2009 Jules worked with director Kriv Stenders on the feature Lucky Country which premiered at the 2009 Adelaide International Film Festival, was an official selection in the 2009 Montreal International Film Festival and 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival and was in official competition at the 2009 St Tropez Cinemas des Antipodes. It also garnered Jules another Australian Cinematography award in the feature film category.

In 2009/2010 Jules shot the feature Sanctum, collaborating again with director Alister Grierson. This event film was executive produced by James Cameron and was shot on the Cameron/Pace Fusion 3D camera system. Sanctum, which won Jules an award in the feature category at the 2011 Australian Cinematographer’s Awards, and has taken over $110m worldwide since its release. Jules has continued to work in the field of 3D acquisition shooting Australia's first live action 3D commercial for Northern Territory Tourism.

In 2010/2011 Jules shot the feature Wish You Were Here with director Kieran Darcy-Smith. It opened the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to critical success and was picked up for all major territories, launching Jules’ career even further as a cinematographer to watch on the world stage. Jules received the GOLD award at the NSW Australian Cinematographer’s awards and was nominated for Best Cinematography in the 2012 AACTA awards.

Jules’ latest project was DPing the 3D Imax and National Geographic films covering James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge Expedition to dive a one man submersible to the ocean’s deepest point. It will have a theatrical release world wide via IMAX in the first half of 2013. His next project is the Michael Bay produced TV series Black Sails.

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Felicity Abbott APDG Production Designer Felicity Abbott APDG is a production designer of New Zealand Pākehā (European) and Māori (Te Whakatōhea) descent.

Felicity is a graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (BFA Sculpture) and AFTRS (MA Hons Film & Television in Production Design). Upon graduating with first-class honours from AFTRS in 1999, she was presented with the Fox Studios Australia Award for Excellence in Design.

Felicity is a professional member of both the AACTA and the Australian Production Design Guild (APDG). She was accredited by the guild at the inaugural awards in 2011.

Felicity's designs are diverse, evoking the memory of childhood in the ABC's TV Week Logie Award winning 26-period drama My Place and vibrant sixties Broome in the celebrated feature Bran Nue Dae, the third film from director Rachel Perkins. A further collaboration with Rachel Perkins allowed Felicity to travel to Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait to design the critically acclaimed film Mabo, the story of Eddie Koiki Mabo, his determined fight for the legal recognition of traditional land rights and the life he shared with his great love Bonita. Felicity worked with British director Julien Temple to re-create the stylised magical realism of Sydney’s past in the UK/Australian co-production and Rose D'Or-winning film-opera, The Eternity Man.

Felicity’s extensive body of work in period design is captured in the disciplined colour palette chosen to portray starkest 1820’s Van Diemen's Land in Michael James Rowland's award- winning film, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce. Felicity recently completed work on the upcoming Brendan Cowell film, The Outlaw Michael Howe starring Damon Herriman and Rarriwuy Hick, set in 1815 Van Dieman’s Land.

Lisa Meagher Costume Designer With a career spanning over a quarter of a century, Lisa Meagher is one of Australia’s leading costume designers.

With feature film credits including Rage in Placid Lake, The Man Who Sued God and The Heartbreak Kid, Lisa’s television credits include the telemovie Wicked Love – The Maria Korp Story, six seasons of Packed To The Rafters and most recently the celebrated costume drama A Place To Call Home.

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Dany Cooper ASE Editor Dany Cooper is one of Australia’s best-known and respected editors. She has an extensive list of credits and awards for both local and international projects that include three ASE (Australian Screen Editors) Awards, two AFI/AACTA wins and four-time nominee, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Award, IF Nomination and an Emmy Nomination.

Dany won her first AFI Award in 1994 for the feature Angel Baby (dir. Michael Rymer), a director she has worked with over the years, including on In Too Deep (1999), Perfume (2001) and Queen of the Damned (2002). She was nominated for an AFI in 1997 on The Well (dir. Samantha Lang) and for Neil Armfield’s Candy (starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish) in 2006, also winning her first ASE Award that year. Other credits include Hey Hey Its Esther Blueburger (starring Toni Collette), December Boys (starring Daniel Radcliffe) and co-editing Baz Luhrman’s Australia. In 2010, Dany edited Beneath Hill 60 (dir. Jeremy Sims) and won both the FCCA Award and ASE Award, along with receiving her fourth AACTA Nomination. The next year, her work on Oranges and Sunshine (dir. Jim Loach, starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving), saw her receiving the ASE Award for the second year in a row and both an IF and AACTA Nomination. Dany edited The Sapphires (dir. Wayne Blair) for Goalpost Pictures, released in 2012 and screening at top international festivals that include Cannes, Melbourne, Telluride and Toronto. She has received an ASE Award Nomination and won an AACTA Award for her work on the film. She recently finished working on Paranoia (dir. Robert Luketic, starring Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman).

For television, Dany has also worked on the award-winning series My Place and Spirited. She was nominated for a 2004 Emmy Award for her work on the TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica (Universal Pictures). She also worked on Blackfella Films’ groundbreaking Indigenous series for the ABC Redfern Now Series 1. She is currently editing episodes for the second series of Southern Star/Channel Ten’s Puberty Blues.

Nick Holmes ASE Editor Celebrated editor Nick Holmes is a graduate of New York University with a Masters in Directing, Writing and Film Editing, and has a BA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

His outstanding list of credits includes the drama series Heartbreak High, Water Rats, Murder Call, My Brother Jack, Farscape. McLeods Daughters, Love My Way, All Saints, Sea Patrol, Spirited and most recently The Straits, Underbelly Badness, Packed To The Rafters and the first season of Redfern Now.

Nick’s feature film credits include Shotgun Wedding, Paws and additional editing on Babe.

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Darren Dale Producer Darren Dale has been a company director of Blackfella Films, Australia's premier Indigenous production company, for over ten years. In 2008 Darren, together with Rachel Perkins, produced the landmark multi-platform history series First Australians, broadcast on SBS to over 2.3 million viewers and accompanied by an internationally acclaimed interactive website. Amongst First Australians many accolades were AFI, TV Week Logie, AWGIE and Director’s Guild Awards.

In 2011, Darren produced the feature documentary The Tall Man for SBS, based on the award- winning book by Chloe Hooper. Premiering at the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival, the film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and was awarded the AWGIE Award for Best Broadcast Documentary, the inaugural Walkley Award for Documentary and received 4 AACTA nominations including Best Feature Documentary. The Tall Man was released theatrically by Hopscotch Films in November 2011.

In 2012, Darren produced, with Miranda Dear, the critically acclaimed film Mabo starring Deborah Mailman in a TV Week Silver Logie Award winning performance as Bonita Mabo and Jimi Bani as Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo. Marking the 20th Anniversary of the historic High Court decision, Mabo had a special Gala Premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival before screening on ABC TV.

Darren has produced a number of acclaimed short films and documentaries that between them have screened at the Sundance, Aspen, Edinburgh, Toronto and Palm Springs International Film Festivals. The 2010 SBS documentary Lani’s Story was the recipient of a United Nations Media Peace Award, the second consecutive year Darren was awarded this prize.

With his Blackfella Films business partner, Rachel Perkins, Darren co-curated the film program for the Message Sticks Indigenous Festival at the Sydney Opera House from 2002 until 2011.

Most recently Darren produced the groundbreaking drama series Redfern Now for ABC TV, winner of the 2013 TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama.

Darren currently serves on the board of Screen NSW and the Council of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

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Miranda Dear Producer Producer Miranda Dear began her career with UK public broadcaster Channel 4 Television moving from Music & Arts through to Acquisitions where she became Senior Film Buyer. In 1997 she moved to Australia as Acquisition and Production Consultant and negotiated the Channel’s involvement in a number of film funding and acquisition initiatives.

In 2000 Miranda joined SBS Independent as Senior Commissioning Editor Drama. Her commissions included Harvie Krumpet, RAN (Remote Area Nurse), and the first long form drama features from directors Jessica Hobbs, Tony Krawitz, Rachel Ward and Matthew Saville (So Close to Home, Jewboy, Martha’s New Coat and Roy Hollsdotter Live). She was the SBS Commissioning Editor for the feature films Look Both Ways, Ten Canoes, Somersault, Australian Rules, Walking on Water, and Tracker. And also for a number Indigenous drama initiatives which included Warwick Thornton’s Mimi and Green Bush, Beck Cole’s Flat and Plain’s Empty, and Wayne Blair’s Black Talk and Djarn Djarns.

In 2005 Miranda joined ABC TV first as an Executive Producer and then as Head of Drama. There she executive produced a number of programs including Rake, Sisters of War, 3 Acts of Murder, Curtin, Dirt Game, Bed of Roses, The Librarians, Rain Shadow, East of Everything, Bastard Boys, Valentine’s Day, and The Silence. She was the ABC commissioning editor for the feature films Samson & Delilah, Bran Nue Dae, Here I Am and Eye of the Storm and the short film series The New Black. And she also commissioned the series The Slap, The Straits, Paper Giants and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

Since 2010 Miranda has worked with Blackfella Films and produced, with Darren Dale, the critically acclaimed film Mabo starring Deborah Mailman in a TV Week Silver Logie Award winning performance as Bonita Mabo and Jimi Bani as Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo. Marking the 20th Anniversary of the historic High Court decision, Mabo had a special Gala Premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival before screening on ABC TV.

Most recently Miranda produced the groundbreaking drama series Redfern Now for ABC TV, winner of the 2013 TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama.

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About Blackfella Films

For twenty years Blackfella Films has created innovative and high quality content across documentary and narrative in both short and feature formats for theatrical, television and online platforms. Its award winning productions have distinguished its team as creators and curators of distinctive Australian content.

The company was founded in 1992 by writer/director/producer Rachel Perkins who was joined by producer Darren Dale in 2002. In 2010 Blackfella Films was a recipient of Enterprise Funding from Screen Australia. In 2011 Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale as directors of Blackfella Films were ranked number 16 in the Encore Power 50. In 2010, former ABC Head of Fiction, Miranda Dear joined Blackfella Films as producer on the company’s drama slate.

A standout achievement for the company was the award-winning documentary series First Australians, which was awarded Australia’s top honours for documentary including the AFI and IF Awards, the UN Media Peace Prize, TV Week Logie and Screen Writers and Directors Guild of Australia Awards. First Australians has sold throughout the world and is the highest selling educational title in Australia.

The feature documentary The Tall Man, produced by Darren Dale with executive producer Rachel Perkins, received the inaugural Walkley Award for Documentary and was nominated for four AACTA Awards including Best Feature Documentary. It was released in cinemas nationally in November 2011 and was shown on SBS in February this year.

In 2011, Blackfella Films produced the critically acclaimed and award winning film Mabo starring Deborah Mailman and Jimi Bani. Marking the 20th Anniversary of the historic High Court decision, Mabo had a special Gala Premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival before screening on ABC TV.

Most recently, Blackfella Films produced the groundbreaking drama series Redfern Now for ABC TV, winner of the 2013 TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama.

In addition to its film and television productions, from 2002 - 2011 the company produced the annual Indigenous Film Festival Message Sticks at the Sydney Opera House, which toured to 13 venues nationally, and reached an audience of 15,000 Australians. Rachel Perkins has been a board member of Screen Australia since 2009 and prior to that was a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission from 2004 to 2008. Darren Dale is a member of the board of Screen NSW and the Council of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

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