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SEASON TWO

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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 Logie Awards, the critically acclaimed is currently filming its second season in and around Redfern.

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 AACTA Award Best Script in a Television Drama Steven McGregor AACTA Award Best Actress in a Television Drama 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, , John Bell, Adrian Russell Wills and the AACTA Award winning Steven McGregor and are being directed by Wayne Blair, Adrian Russell Wills, Beck Cole, Leah Purcell and Australian Director’s Guild Award winning director Rachel Perkins for her episode Pretty Boy Blue.

Season one characters returning are those portrayed by Wayne Blair, this year’s Most Outstanding Actress Logie winner , , Lisa Flanagan, Stephen Curry, Dean Daley-Jones and the AACTA Award winning Leah Purcell. They will be joined by Craig McLachlan, , Aaron Pedersen, Meyne Wyatt, Alicia Gardiner, Tammy Clarkson, 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

ABC Executive Producer Sally Riley

Screen Australia Executive Producer Erica Glynn

Producers Darren Dale Miranda Dear

Story Producer Jimmy McGovern

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

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

Line Producer Scott Hartley

Casting Anousha Zarkesh

Director of Photography Mark Wareham ACS Jules O’Loughlin ACS

Production Designer Felicity Abbott

Editors Dany Cooper Nick Holmes

Costume Designer Lisa Meagher

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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 Angela 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. His decision made many changes to Mattie and Patricia’s life. First off, Mattie hated the fact that she was black, she thought this is why Jack left. But Mattie found no worth in hating herself and decided that her hatred would become a great motivator and used it to drive herself to succeed. And she did.

She makes the call, asks for Jack and a man comes to the phone. She lets loose, thinking that she is talking to her father, only to discover it is Richard (Steve Bisley), Jack’s older brother. And 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 Angela (Alicia Gardiner). She manages to strike up a conversation with Angela 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, Angela recognises 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 Angela 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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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 and later Grant Mitchell in . Craig’s other television credits include the role of Kane Morgan in McLeod’s Daughters, the popular British television series Bugs, as well as , The Cut, , Lowdown, , 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 . Craig will begin filming season two of Doctor Blake later this year.

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 .

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 , which until this year held the UK West End box office record. In 2003 Craig played Frank ‘N Furter in 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 (AUS#3/UK#2, 1990). In 2011, British group Rixxel Kicks sampled McLachlan's Mona for their single , 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 ’s All Saints. Sarah has also appeared in Small Claims, White Collar Blue, Backberner, Behind the comedy Channel, Murder Call, State Coroner, , 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 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 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 - 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.

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 , 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 ( 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 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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Starting Over Shoot dates: Tuesday 14 May - Friday 24 May Directed by Rachel Perkins Written by John Bell

Aaron Davis Wayne Blair Allie Lisa Flanagan Robyn 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 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 (Wayne Blair) 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 ; 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, 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 , 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, , The Informant, , 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 ) at the Sydney Opera House, the Melbourne Comedy Festival and in and .

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Rachel Perkins Director – Starting Over & Where the Heart Is 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 Shoot dates: Monday 27 May – Thursday 6 June Directed by Adrian Russell Wills Written by Steven McGregor

Justin Myles Meyne Wyatt Janine Myles Caren Pistorius Norman Sam Conway Dottie Melodie Reynolds

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. Sleep deprivation, wearing the same clothes for days on end, 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 the 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 ’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 will be 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 – Babe in Arms Writer – Where the Heart Is

Adrian Russell Wills is a filmmaker with a passion for telling stories that challenges 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 Bita 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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Pokies Shoot dates: Monday 17 June – Thursday 27 June Directed by Beck Cole Written by Steven McGregor

Nic Shields Ursula Yovich Eddie Shields Marley Sharp Joel Shields Aaron McGrath Grace Leah Purcell

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.

Dogs of War Shoot dates: Friday 28 June – Wednesday 10 July Written and directed by Wayne Blair

Ernie Ernie Dingo Derek Bruce Carter Further casting to be announced

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

Where the Heart Is Shoot dates: Thursday 11 July – Tuesday 23 July Directed by Rachel Perkins Written by Adrian Russell Wills

Peter Davey Aaron Pedersen Lorraine Deborah Mailman Further casting to be announced

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.

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CREATIVES

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 Pow 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 (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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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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