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| Saving Andrew Mallard |
| Give Me A Break |
| Desperately Keeping Sheila |
| Burning Daylight |
| Desperately Seeking Sheila |
| Rosie |
| The Madam and Company |
| Lobster Tales |
| Return to Eden |
| Disturbing Dust | ||
| Eye of the Tiger | ||
| BURNING DAYLIGHT | ||
26 minutes Format Digital Betacam Network ABC Distributor Marcom Projects Associate Producer Rachael Swain Producer Brian Beaton Director Warwick Thornton 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’. |
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52 minutes Format Digital Betacam Network SBS Distributor Marcom Projects, Granada Executive Producers Celia Tait, Brian Beaton Director Russell Vines Edit Director Alan Carter Once you’ve found your Sheila – the challenge is keeping her. “Beautifully told and wonderfully edited”. “Well done it was great viewing” “Oh wow, what a documentary. Wonderful. “ “fantastic stuff...great stories, real people and our town” |
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| SAVING ANDREW MALLARD | ||
1 x 55minutes ( ABC, ScreenWest, AFC) Format :Digtal Betacam Network: ABC Distributor: Marcom Projects Executive Producer: Brian Beaton Producers: Celia Tait and Michael Muntz Director: Michael Muntz A 12 year fight for justice by the family and supporters of convicted murderer Andrew Mallard who force the system to take another look. "A remarkable story and a clever and affecting piece of storytelling" The Age "An emotional journey...unflinchingly captured on camera " West Australian " This documentary never becomes bogged down in legalese and is a compelling tale of one family's devotion to their son" Sun Herald |
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| GIVE ME A BREAK | ||
4 x 26 minute series ( SBS I) Format: Digital Betacam Network: SBS Distributor: Marcom Projects Executive Producer: Brian Beaton Series Producer: Celia Tait Line Producer: Karen Williams Directors: Peter Pritchard, Steve Peddie, bRitt Arthur, Paulo Alberton
In each episode a “breaker” is given the chance to change their life by experiencing a job they’ve dreamed about under the watchful eye of a mentor. Does the reality live up to their expectations? Have our breakers got what it takes to make the grade? |
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"What makes Give Me A Break watchable is not what is won and lost but who is playing the game", The Age, Green Guide. |
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| DESPERATELY SEEKING SHEILA | ||
6 x 1 hour Documentary (ABC, ITV in Association with Carlton Television) Format: Digital Betacam Network: SBS, ITV Distributor: Granada Media International Executive Producers: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait Series
Producer: Andrew Harrison 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. |
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| ROSIE | ||
26 mins (SBS) Format: Digital Betacam Network: SBS Executive
Producer: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait 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. |
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EYE OF THE TIGER
1 hour documentary 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. |
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| Meanwhile, retired nurse June Butcher, voluntarily breeds the now-rare bilby at her animal sanctuary, Kanyana. With the help of cameras that 'see in the dark' we witness the remarkable life cycle of this marsupial. As the day of their release draws closer, will the peninsular provide the promised safe haven for the bilbies to safely Return to Eden? | ||
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Director's Comments Celia Tait reveals her film-making techniques… |
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| CAUGHT ON CAMERA : SPY CAMS EXPOSE BILBY SEX SECRETS by Fiona Williams. Encore Magazine, March 2001 | ||
| The Bilby Story In an exclusive for the Veterinarian, Jeni Hood reveals the rough, tough sex life of the Bilby and how this extraordinary footage was captured on film for the first time in history. | ||
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For the Return to Eden Educational Kit created by ATOM, go to the study guide section at www.metromagazine.com.au For more information about CALM's Western Shield initiative, Project Eden, go to www.naturebase.net |
| LOBSTER TALES |
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Lobster Tales has been awarded
an AWGIE Award to writer and researcher Sarah Rossetti, an ACS Award
for cinematography to Leighton de Barros and two Merit Awards for
Best use of humour and Best use of music at the 24th Annual International
Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, USA. Lobster Tales was also nominated as Director's Choice Award at the Scinema - International Science Film & Media Festival in May 2001. |
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For information on fishing for the Western Australian Rock Lobster go to the Department of Fisheries WA website: www.wa.gov.au/westfish Enjoy a real Lobster experience in the West Australian town of Dongara www.lobstercapital.com.au |
| BELINDA'S BABY |
1 hour documentary 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. |
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