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| BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS |
52 minutes
Format Digital Betacam
Network SBS
Director & Writer: Shireen Nayanan
Co Director & Writer: Mathew Kelley
Producer: Brian Beaton, Shireen Narayanan
Line Producer: Karen Williams
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| DESPERATELY SEEKING DOCTORS |
5 x 52 minutes
Format Digital Betacam
Network BBC Scotland & SBS
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 |
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| TRULY MADLY PUPPETRY |
1 x 48 minutes
Format Digital Betacam
Network Ovation
Executive Producer Brian Beaton
Consulting Producer Celia Tait
Director Renee Webster
Production Manager Karen Williams
“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.
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| 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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DESPERATELY KEEPING SHEILA |
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"
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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
Series Edit Director: Alan Carter
Directors: Janine Hosking, Kay Pavlou, Russell Vines, Ariel White, Mark
Powell, Mira King
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
Produced by Robin Eastwood, Directed by Debbie Carmody
Written by Debbie Carmody & Roy Morseu
Director of Photography: Torstein Dyrting, Editor: Caris Penniket
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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| INSIDE
AUSTRALIA |
52
mins Documentary (in Association with Thunderbox)
Format:
Digital Betacam
Network:
ABC
Distributor:
TVF
Executive
Producer: Brian Beaton
Producers: Jody
Nunn & Brian Beaton
Director:
Hugh Brody
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. |
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| DISTURBING DUST |
26 mins (SBS
Independent)
Format:
Digital Betacam
Network:
SBS
Distributor:
SBS Distribution
Producers:
Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Director:
Tosca Looby
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.
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| THE MADAM AND COMPANY |
52
minutes (SBS Independent)
Format:
Digital BetacamNetwork:
SBSi
Distributor:
TVF
Producers:
Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Director:
Melanie Byres
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.
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EYE OF THE TIGER
1 hour documentary
Format: Digital Betacam
Network: ABC, Discovery Europe, Discovery Asia
Distributor: Granada Media International
Producers: Brian Beaton and Celia Tait
Director: Tosca Looby
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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| RETURN TO EDEN |
1 hour documentary
Format: 16mm
Network: ABC, Discovery Canada, National Geographic
Distributor: Granada Media International
Financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Screenwest
Directed by Celia Tait
Produced by Brian Beaton
Following Project Eden, a visionary attempt to
remove feral invaders and return native animals to the remote wilds
of the Peron Peninsular. It's a test of man's ingenuity in a race
against time.
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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… |
| CAUGHT
ON CAMERA : SPY CAMS EXPOSE BILBY SEX SECRETS by Fiona
Williams. Encore Magazine, March 2001 |
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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. |
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 |
1 hour documentary
Format: Digital Betacam
Network: ABC, Discovery Canada
Distributor: Granada Media International
Financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Screenwest
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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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1 hour documentary
Format: Digital Betacam
Network: ABC
Distributor: Film Australia
Producers: Brian Beaton, Celia Tait
Director: Celia Tait
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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