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Who Do You Think You Are? Series 4
6 x 52 minutes
(SBS)
Well-known Australians play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past.
Taking us to all corners of Australia and the globe are six stories of individuals seeking to find the definitive answer to where they came from. Along the way secrets are uncovered and histories revealed – from heroic tales of military battles to harrowing tales of war’s legacy, from nineteenth century brothels to twentieth century child abandonment - with each celebrity discovering that their ancestors form an integral part of not only their own identity, but that of the nation.
Combining emotional and personal journeys with big-picture history, these inspiring and sometimes challenging stories remind us how Australians have come to be the people that we are today.
Based on the hit UK TV series as featured on BBC and produced by Wall to Wall Television.
Series Producer: Celia Tait
Line Producer: Robin Eastwood
Executive Producer for Artemis International: Brian Beaton
Executive Producer for Serendipity Productions: Margie Bryant
SBS Commissioning Editor: John Godfrey
Format devised by Wall to Wall Media Ltd and based upon a programme originally produced in the UK by Wall to Wall Media Ltd . Format licensed by Wall to Wall Media Ltd.
The Who Do You Think You Are? word mark and logo are trade marks of Wall to Wall Media Limited and are used under licence
The Bombing of Darwin: An Awkward Truth
History Channel
1 x 55 minutes
The true story behind Australia’s worst disaster, the bombing of Darwin during World War 2.
Director: Steve Peddie
Producer: Brian Beaton
Executive Producers: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Line Producer: Karen Williams
Buy The Bombing of Darwin: An Awkward Truth DVD here
The Bombing of Darwin: An Awkward Truth now stands as the highest rating programme of all time on
The Australian History Channel and the 4th highest rating documentary programme of all time on
Australian subscription television
“...this is vital viewing for those that crave the whole truth.”
- Ian Cuthbertson from the Australian
Desperately Seeking Doctors: The Kimberley
SBS & BBC Scotland
2 x 52 minutes (SBS)
3 x 58 minutes (BBC)
Outspoken and zealous, Dr Mary Fortune leaves Scotland to take up the challenge of working in one of the most remote medical posts on the planet. With her fresh eyes we discover the realities of Australian health delivery in a new light.
Field Director: Stuart Greig
Post Director: Alan Carter
Producer: Brian Beaton
Executive Producers: Celia Tait and Brian Beaton
Line Producer: Karen Williams
"It's a fascinating documentary about a problem that should not be happening in Australia at all..."
Anooska Tucker-Evans and Michelle Collins Sunday Mail
"Aerial photography of the Kimberley, is absolutely breathtaking, as is the compassion of the woman the locals come to
know as Dr Mary.A very fitting two-part follow-up to the original series, and a great profile of a woman who, in her humility,
epitomises everything doctors strive to be."
Ian Cuthbertson Weekend Australian
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 3
6 x 52 minutes
(SBS)
Well-known Australians play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past.
Taking us to all corners of Australia and the globe are six stories of individuals seeking to find the definitive answer to where they came from. Along the way secrets are uncovered and histories revealed - from resistance fighting to murder, from child abandonment to adoption, and from nineteenth century abortion to twentieth century shell shock - with each individual discovering that their ancestors form an integral part of not only their own identity, but that of the nation.
Combining emotional and personal journeys with big-picture history, these inspiring and sometimes challenging stories remind us how Australians have come to be the people that we are today.
Based on the hit UK TV series as featured on BBC and produced by Wall to Wall Television.
Series Producer: Celia Tait
Line Producer: Robin Eastwood
Executive Producer for Artemis International: Brian Beaton
Executive Producer for Serendipity Productions: Margie Bryant
SBS Commissioning Editor: Ned Lander
Format devised by Wall to Wall Media Ltd and based upon a programme originally produced in the UK by Wall to Wall Media Ltd . Format licensed by Wall to Wall Media Ltd.
The Who Do You Think You Are? word mark and logo are trade marks of Wall to Wall Media Limited and are used under licence
1 x 52 minutes
SBS & Al Jazeera
Salam Ziusudras’ father’s remains were recently found in a mass grave in Iraq 26 years after he mysteriously disappeared. Knowing nothing about his father – or what happened - Salam embarks on a mission from Australia to Iraq desperate for answers. What he discovers is a world of underground politics, spies, friendship and betrayal that uncovers a past undoubtedly responsible for shaping Salam - and his life - to this very day.
Director & Writer: Max Walker
Co Director & Writer: Salam Ziusudras
Producer: Brian Beaton, Celia Tait
Line Producer: Karen Williams
“This is a compelling story…” , “A Powerful piece of television made more authentic by Zuisudras’ first hand narration of the tale”
Sue Yeap West Australian
“Salam Father is an extraordinary film that quietly & poignantly explores so many themes…”
Gold Coast Bulletin
“Poignant documentary…” Sun Herald
Pick of the day Canberra Times and Weekend Australian
To view a promo clip, click here.
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 2
6 x 52 minutes
(SBS)
Six more prominent Australians trace their family trees in a new series of the hit TV genealogy program ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ starting in September.
AFL legend Ron Barassi, actors Sigrid Thornton and Ben Mendelsohn, cook Maggie Beer, singer Christine Anu and musician John Butler all look into their ancestry in the second Australian series of the program, screening on SBS Television from Sunday September 27 at 7.30pm.
Based on the hit UK TV series as featured on BBC and produced by Wall to Wall Television.
Series Producer: Celia Tait
Line Producer: Robin Eastwood
Executive Producer for Artemis International: Brian Beaton
Executive Producer for Serendipity Productions: Margie Bryant
SBS Commissioning Editor: Ned Lander
Format devised by Wall to Wall Media Ltd and based upon a programme originally produced in the UK by Wall to Wall Media Ltd . Format licensed by Wall to Wall Media Ltd.
The Who Do You Think You Are? word mark and logo are trade marks of Wall to Wall Media Limited and are used under licence
1 x 52 minutes
(SBS)
Bridge Between Two Worlds is an intimate portrait of the struggles and triumphs of three refugee children, Filimon, Martin and Mujtaba as they prepare to leave the safety of an intensive English language primary school and take their first tentative steps into mainstream Australian society.
Director & Writer: Shireen Nayanan
Co Director & Writer: Mathew Kelley
Producer: Brian Beaton, Celia Tait, Shireen Narayanan
Line Producer: Karen Williams
‘the filmmaker creates a perceptive, multilayered understanding of the young refugees’ experiences’ - West Australian
‘ Delightful’ Sunday Times
It is hard to remain dry-eyed as the schools multicultural soccer team sings Advance Australia Fair in the bus home from a match.'
- Sydney Morning Herald/ Melbourne Age
Desperately Seeking Doctors
5 x 52 minutes
BBC Scotland & SBS
The series delves into the shortage of the doctors’ crisis in Australia to follow the experiences of an overseas-trained doctor from Scotland who responds to advertisements and 2 new graduates to take up G.P. positions in remote outback communities in the vast expanse of Western Australia.
Executive Producers: Celia Tait, Brian Beaton
Directors: Max Walker, Stuart Greig
Line Producer: Karen Williams
“Engrossing TV to start the year” – Daily Telegraph Pick Of The week
“Engaging and entertaining telly that has something to say” – Sunday Age
“Real insight into a pressing problem” Sydney Morning Herald
Truly Madly Puppetry
1 x 48 minutes
Ovation
“Surprising, raunchy, hilarious, crazy! Expect the unexpected!”
Reactions to the 20th World Puppetry Festival are as varied as the puppets themselves. If you thought puppetry was only about a hand up a sock , you’re only half right.
We find out what animates these international puppeteers into action. We enjoy their performances as we follow some of their most outstanding acts when the Festival is held in Australia for the first time.
Executive Producer: Brian Beaton
Consulting Producer: Celia Tait
Director: Renee Webster
Production Manager: Karen Williams
4 x 26 minutes
(ABC)
Dr Niki Ellis is a world expert on well being at work and a leading trouble-shooter in workplaces with big problems.
In each programme she enters a different workplace with a specific stress problem and uses her experience in medicine and organisational health to discover what has gone wrong and why. An action plan is agreed and we follow the progress as organisations attempt to implement it.
Whatever happens we learn a lot on the way about stress, workplace psychology and well being.
Distributed by Marcom Projects
An Artemis International & Serendipity Productions co-production6 x 52 minutes
(SBS)
The story of Australia told through the family histories of 6 well known Australian personalities. In each self contained film one of Australia’s best-loved celebrities, traces their family tree to reveal the surprising, extraordinary and often moving stories of their ancestors. As they set forth on this journey of discovery they come ‘face to face’ with past relatives, and ultimately find out more about themselves, their family, and pivotal moments in Australian history.
Based on the hit UK TV series as featured on BBC and produced by Wall to Wall Television.
Series Producer: Celia Tait
Line Producer: Robin Eastwood
Executive Producer for Artemis International: Brian Beaton
Executive Producer for Film Australia: Penny Robins
Executive Producer for Serendipity Productions: Margie Bryant
SBS Independent Commissioning Editor: Ned Lander
Format devised by Wall to Wall Media Ltd and based upon a programme originally produced in the UK by Wall to Wall Media Ltd . Format licensed by Wall to Wall Media Ltd.
The Who Do You Think You Are? word mark and logo are trade marks of Wall to Wall Media Limited and are used under licence
Desperately Keeping Sheila
1 x 55 minutes
(ABC, ScreenWest, AFC)
In the witty and highly successful Desperately Seeking Sheila series lonely bush bachelors looking for love were introduced to women from Australia and the UK. Two years later we go back to find out if their love has lasted.
For those that did strike lucky it was only the beginning. Once you’ve found your Sheila, the challenge is keeping her.
Executive Producers: Celia Tait, Brian Beaton
Director / Camera: Russell Vines
Edit director: Alan Carter
Production Manager: Karen Williams
Burning Daylight
1 x 26 minutes
(ABC)
Burning Daylight is a dance/film project. The performance is set from late one night until dawn in a transit zone outside a notorious pub on a Broome-style Karaoke night. A series of contemporary dance scenes unfold expressing the friction, local humour and cultural collision in the streets at night in the part of Broome known as ‘The Bronx’.
Conceived by Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain
Director Warwick Thornton
Producer Brian Beaton
Associate Producer Rachael Swain.
"..already acknowledged as the world's most exciting visual and physical theatre company...the reason to go and see Stalker is the way they marry jaw dropping spectacle with real purpose" Tim Marsh, London Times.
Saving Andrew Mallard
1 x 55 minutes
(ABC, ScreenWest, AFC)
70 year old Grace Mallard refuses to believe her son Andrew is guilty of murder. 11 years ago Andrew was put away for life for the murder of a local jeweler. Over the course of a decade, Grace and her devastated family doggedly fight on to set him free. Along the way they recruit investigative journalist Colleen Egan, charismatic MP John Quigley and top QC Malcolm McCusker to help them. All are convinced that Andrew never got a fair trial. Together they fight on to the High Court – Andrew’s final chance for the justice system to take another look.
Director: Michael Muntz
Producers: Celia Tait & Michael Muntz
Executive Producer: Brian Beaton
Production Manager: Karen Williams
Distributor Marcom Projects
Give Me A Break
4 x 26 minute documentary series
(SBS, ScreenWest )
Directors: Paulo Alberton, Britt Arthur, Steve Peddie, Peter Pritchard
Producer: Celia Tait
Line Producer: Karen Williams
Executive Producer: Brian Beaton
Four people are given the chance to change their life by experiencing a job they’ve dreamed about under the watchful eye of a mentor.
Distributor Marcom Projects
"Televisual Gold" , Lucy Belmont, The Age
School Girl to Actor
Breaker – Renae Simpson
Mentor - Rick Brayford
17 year old school girl Renae Simpson lives in Mt Magnet, a mining town hundreds of kilometres away from Perth. She wants to be a famous actress, and, as she puts it, “be on the cover of Woman’s Day”. Over 2 weeks Renae is immersed in drama school with mentor Rick Brayford. She’s never acted before and has to learn fast. In a fortnight she’s up on stage performing live to a large audience. Has she got what it takes?
Policy Officer to Chef
Breaker - Mallika Macleod
Mentor – Adrian Tobin
Twenty eight year old paraplegic policy officer Mallika Macleod is passionate about cooking. She wants to be a chef. She has just two weeks to prove that she has the culinary talents and physical capacity to make it in the pressurised environment of a high quality commercial kitchen.
Mentor Adrian Tobin gives Mallika her break, An award-winning chef who oversees one of the largest kitchens in Western Australia. Adrian, is a tough task master as he puts Mallika through a 2 week crash course in fine cusine. Will she succeed?
Barman to Real Estate Whiz
Breaker - Dave Feighan
Mentor - Terry Hardie
Twenty-eight year old barman Dave Feighan is at a dead end. He wants to turn his life around and explore his passion - real estate. For 2 weeks Dave is mentored by real estate guru Terry Hardie and immersed in the cut throat world of buying and selling property. Can Terry turn Dave from burnt out barman to real estate whiz?
Roller Driver to Animal Carer
Breaker – Liz Hughes
Mentor – Myra
For 15 years, 42 year old Liz has been a road worker, driving big rollers in the outback. Seeking a life change, she wants to work with animals. For 2 weeks animal loving Liz is given the chance to try one of the toughest jobs in animal welfare - an RSPCA inspector. Under the guidance of her mentor, Inspector Myra, Liz comes face to face with distressed animals and their difficult owners. Does her expectation live up to the tough reality?
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8 x 52 minutes Documentary Series
(SBS, ITV, ScreenWest, Granada)
Desperately Seeking Sheila takes a warm-hearted, affectionate and amusing look at a little known crisis affecting our blokes in the bush: an outback love drought. In rural Western Australia alone, single men outnumber single women three times over. With many of these women preferring a career and city-life to life in the bush, the odds are clearly stacked against these bush bachelors.
This series follows four love-starved bush bachelors looking for more than a roll in the hay. Here they have a chance at finding a genuine life-long partner. No gimmicks. No instant celebrities. No bull.
Directors Janine Hosking, Mira King,Kay Pavlou, Mark Powell, Ariel White, Russell Vines
Executive Producers; Brian Beaton, Celia Tait
Harry Bardwell
Production Manager: Karen Williams
Distributor Australia Marcom Projects
www.marcom.com.au
Distributor International Granada Media International
26 minutes Drama Documentary
(ABC, AFC, ScreenWest)
“Rosie” is a journey of self-discovery through the trauma of physical and emotional abuse.
This docudrama explores the troubled life of Rosalie Fraser, a child who suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her foster mother.
As Rosalie recounts the key points in her relationship with her foster family, her sister and her husband, we experience her pain, anguish and finally joy at being able to confront and accept the past. More.
Executive Producers: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Producer: Robin Eastwood
Directed: Debbie Carmody
Writters: Debbie Carmody & Roy Morseu
Distributor Marcom Projects
52 minutes
(in Association with Thunderbox)
On a vast salt lake surrounded by red earth, British sculptor Antony Gormley embarks on an installation that awakens a small Goldfields town in remote Western Australia.
Directer: Hugh Brody
Executive Producer: Brian Beaton
Producer: Jody Nunn
Distributor: TVF International
Australian sales - Click
here
52 minutes
(SBS I )
The story of one woman's insatiable crusade to build the best sex empire in Australia. Millionare Mary-Anne Kenworthy is a woman of many titles: Mother, Rotarian, Entrepreneur and Brothel Madam. However, she is mostly known for owning two of the largest illegal brothels in Western Australia. After a three-year stint as a prostitute, Mary-Anne aged 28 bought her first house of ill fame for $80,000. Now at 45 she has built a business empire, with a string of massage parlors, brothels and escort agencies, on the back of a thriving illegal sex trade. Outside the shadowy world of prostitution this Rotarian striving for respectability has diversified her interests into trucking, health, fitness and fashion. None of which have been as successful as her brothels.
Director: Melanie Byres
Producer: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Distributor: TVF International
Australian sales - Click here
6 x 30 minutes series
(SBS)
Each series explores the works of Australia's contemporary photographers.
It also includes 'After Two Hundred Years' which documents the diversity
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life in the late 1980's.The series
features talented photographers Fiona Hall, Emmanuel Angelicas, Jon Lewis,
Max Pam and Grant Mudford. More.
Distributor Beyond Distribution
www.beyond.com.au
Tel: 61- 2 9281 1266
26 minutes
(SBS I , ScreenWest)
In the 1970's Robyn Unger was one of thousands of Australian women exposed to asbestos in her home. At 54, Robyn has the most virulent of asbestos disease, only months to live and plenty left to achieve.
Director: Tosca Looby
Producer: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait.
Distributor: Marcom Projects
Eye of the Tiger
55 minutes
(ABC, Granada, Discovery Europe, Discovery Asia)
In the jungles and villages of Thailand, people with passion and commitment take on the enormous task - to save the remaining tigers that have survived a long history of poaching. It is a race against the clock for the conservation of this endangered species.
Director: Tosca Looby
Producer: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Distributed by Granada Media
International.
Telephone:44-2073898536
www.granadamedia.com/international
50 minutes
(ABC, Granada, Discovery Canada,
National Geographic)
The story of one of the most ambitious counter-attacks
on feral wildlife in Australia and the return of native animals, now
on the brink of extinction. More.
Director: Celia Tait
Producer: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Distributed by Granada Media International.
Telephone:44-2073898536
www.granadamedia.com/international
Australian sales - Click
here
55 minutes
(ABC, Granada, Discovery Canada)
Lobster Tales brings together a kaleidoscope
of people who marvel at crayfish, risk their lives harvesting them,
gastronomically revere them, and export them live into lucrative overseas
markets. From the remote Abrolhos Islands of Western Australia to the
other side of the continent where Larry, Australia's Giant Lobster
monument, towers above the highway, Lobster Tales are told. More .
Director & Co-producer: Celia Tait
Producer: Brian Beaton
Distributed by Granada Media International.
Telephone:44-2073898536
www.granadamedia.com/international
Australian sales - www.marcom.com.au
30 minutes
(ABC)
Sissy is an expression of gay black identity,
taking you behind the scenes to give a rare insight into a sub culture
that has created its own space within the gay culture. It explores
the bond that sets the black 'sisterhood' apart from the white gays. More. Publicity.
Directed by Debbie Gittins,
Produced by Brian Beaton
Distributed by Artemis International
Email: brianb@artemisfilms.com
22 minutes
(Education Dept
of Western Australia, ABC)
An Aboriginal history of Western Australia
from the Dreaming to reconciliation - Old Country, New Country touches
on the forces that have shaped the lives of Aboriginal people, and
promotes an understanding of Aboriginal traditional and contemporary
culture.
Directed and Produced by
Brian Beaton
Distributed by Artemis International.
Email: brianb@artemisfilms.com
30 minutes
(ABC)
Follows the story of Harry Carmody, one
of the 'Stolen Generation' and his two daughters Libby and Debbie as
they search for links to his past and his family. More.
Directed by Debbie Gittins, Produced by Brian Beaton
Distributor Marcom Projects
56 minutes
(ABC, Film Australia)
Belinda Wardlaw-Jones is one of the few women in Australia to be born with
a rare form of muscular dystrophy, an incurable muscle-wasting disease
which can drastically reduce life expectancy. Despite her condition and
against the advice of many, she and her husband Andrew decide to have a
child. More.
Director: Celia Tait
Producer: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait.
Distributor Film Australia
sales@filmaust.com.au
A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Tait Productions.
30 minutes
(ABC, BEYOND, Canal +)
A day in the life of wild dolphins sharing the waters of a busy harbour
with the local community. Steve Honnor has followed three wild bottlenose
dolphin pods for seven years. Their rare willingness to interact with humans
reveals a daily routine as complex as our own. Studying them, he believes,
is crucial to their survival if man and dolphin are to live in close proximity.
Featuring spectacular play, violent fighting and mourning their dead, Dolphin's
Day is a unique glimpse into the lives of these fascinating creatures. More . Publicity.
Directed by Celia Tait, Produced
by Brian Beaton
Distributed by Beyond Distribution www.beyond.com.au
Tel: 61- 2 9281 1266
6 x 30 minutes series
(SBS, Beyond)
There is a growing awareness and global interest in alternative solutions
to age old problems. Health is no exception…every day people are re-discovering
methods and cures that have existed for centuries. In this series, Dr.
Serene focuses on six different forms of healing, from her position as
a general practitioner as well as a 'natural healer'. A new perspective
on topics such as Touch, Meditation, Acupuncture, Movement, Homeopathy
and Biomagnetism will be presented when Dr. Serene explores familiar traditional
treatments with new, complimentary options. More.
Director: Celia Tait and Brian Beaton
Producor: Brian Beaton
(Australia) Distributed by Marcom Projects Tel: 61- 7 38015600
Email: marcom@marcom.com.au
(International)
Distributed by Beyond Distribution www.beyond.com.au
Tel: 61- 2 9281 1266
52 minutes
(ABC, SCTV Indonesia)
One Sky documents the combination of the best contemporary Western dance
performance and music with the traditional culture of Indonesia. It explores
a successful example of artistic fusion where Eastern culture meets Western
movement. As we follow the Chrissie Parrott Dance Company's performances
in Surabaya we discover some of the inspiration for their movement - the
magical trance dance and the symbolic mask dance as well as the landscape
and religion. We also examine the link between culture and commerce and
possible directions for the future.
Distributed by Artemis International.
Email: brianb@artemisfilms.com
43 minutes
(Channel 7, Daro)
Everyone is fascinated by the mystery and aura of Dinosaurs but only a
few of us get the chance to actually discover the remains of their activity
millions of years ago. This documentary special, shot in the remote and
rugged Great Sandy Desert and the beautiful coastal area of Northwest Australia,
follows a group of Scientists and Dinosaur Club members as they search
for the fossils, bones and footprints of these magnificent creatures.
Producer & Director:
Brian Beaton
Camera: Rob Dewar, Greg Knight,
Narrator: Susannah Carr
Distributed by Daro Film Distribution, Monaco
Tel: 377- 9797 1600 Email: daro@daro-films.mc
1 hour
The beautiful island of Kastellorizo marks both the beginning and the
end of Europe. It's history is turbulent - waves of conquest: Turkish,
Italian, French and British. This documentary traces the fascinating story
of this tiny island - the invasions, the migration, and the resilience
of a culture under attack. It discovers the intrinsic beauty, the people,
the quayside restaurants and the quiet and tranquillity of a truly unspoiled
island of Greece.
Producor: Brian Beaton
Director: Lex Marinos
Presenter: Thaao Penghlis
Distributed by Artemis International
Email: brianb@artemis.com