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Rosie Old Country, New Country
Inside Australia Silent Legacy
The Madam and Company Belinda's Baby
Visual Instincts
Dolphins' Day
Disturbing Dust The Nature of Healing
Eye of the Tiger One Sky
Return to Eden The Great Dinosaur Hunt
Lobster Tales To The Island
Sissy

Desperately Seeking Sheila

Give Me A Break Saving Andrew Mallard
Burning Daylight Desperately Keeping Sheila
Who Do You Think You Are?

Stress Buster

Desperately Seeking Doctors

 

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
Niki at Swan Care

StressBuster 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-production

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Who Do You Think You Are?

6x52 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.

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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

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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

Distributor Marcom Projects

www.marcom.com.au

 

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

www.marcom.com.au

"Televisiual Gold" , Lucy Belomnt, 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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Desperately Seeking Sheila 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

Distributor Australia Marcom Projects

www.marcom.com.au

Distributor International  Granada Media International

www.granadamedia.com/international

            

 

Rosie 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
Produced by Robin Eastwood, Directed by Debbie Carmody
Written by Debbie Carmody & Roy Morseu

Distributor Marcom Projects

www.marcom.com.au

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Inside Australia  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. 

Directed by Hugh Brody

Executive Produced by Brian Beaton

Produced by Jody Nunn

Distributor: TVF International

Australian sales - Click here

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The Madam and Company  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.

Directed by Melanie Byres

Produced by Brian Beaton and Celia Tait

Distributor: TVF International

Australian sales - Click here

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Visual Instincts 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

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Disturbing Dust  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.

Directed by Tosca Looby

Produced by Brian Beaton and Celia Tait.

Distributor: Marcom Projects

www.marcom.com.au

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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.

Directed by Tosca Looby

Produced by Brian Beaton and Celia Tait

Distributed by Granada Media International.
Telephone:44-2073898536
www.granadamedia.com/international

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Return to Eden 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.

Directed by Celia Tait

Produced by Brian Beaton and Celia Tait

Distributed by Granada Media International.
Telephone:44-2073898536
www.granadamedia.com/international

Australian sales - Click here

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Lobster Tales 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 .

Directed & Co-produced by Celia Tait, Produced by Brian Beaton

Distributed by Granada Media International.
Telephone:44-2073898536
www.granadamedia.com/international

Australian sales - www.marcom.com.au

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Sissy 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

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Old Country, New Country 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

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Silent Legacy 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

www.marcom.com.au


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Belinda's Baby 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.

Directed by Celia Tait, Produced by Brian Beaton and Celia Tait.

Distributor Film Australia

www.filmaust.com.au/programs

sales@filmaust.com.au
A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Tait Productions.


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Dolphins' Day 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

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The Nature of Healing 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.

Directed by Celia Tait and Brian Beaton, Produced by 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

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One Sky 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

 

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The Great Dinosaur Hunt  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.

Produced & Directed by 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

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To The Island 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.

Produced by Brian Beaton, Directed by Lex Marinos, Presented by Thaao Penghlis

Distributed by Artemis International
Email: brianb@artemis.com

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In Perth, WA Artemis International make wildlife documentaries and interactive documentaries, supplying production consultancy and director consultancy and production management, project research, offline editing, scripting, factual programming, television programming, drama series and movies and films such as Lobster Tales and Return to Eden.