‘What was unusual about this film I think is that I tried to see. I didn’t want to write a script I wanted to see it… There were certain given facts but the business of the script was to see them, to see if this world could exist’. - Jean-Luc Goddard. Scenario du film Passion. 1982

This project was born out of a need to make sense of the archive - to see more clearly. Yallourn is a 20th century story. A tribute to modernism and model living. A time capsule of optimism. The rise and rise of consumerism. The rise and fall of a community.

W/D Phil Burke. Sound Design Dean Linguey. Produced in association with the Australian Film Commission. © Phil Burke and Film Camp 2004

To buy a VHS copy, please contact Film Camp: pip@filmcamp.com.au

After 14 years in exile, an Iraqi-Australian filmmaker returns to Samawa to record the changes in his home town following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

To buy a copy in Australia, please contact Ronin Films.
http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/search=iraq/0/2421258846.html

To buy a copy form overseas, please contact SBS Program Sales
by email: angela.klonis@sbs.com.au

A multi-award winning stop motion animation about a twelve-year-old girl whose world has just changed forever.

http://www.vansowerwine.com/clara/
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It is seven years since grandfather Waigong died and Chris, and Australianised Chinese in his mid-20s goes to China to help his parents with the second burial.

Relatives from Waigong’s first marriage - long thought to be family gossip - unexpectedly turn up at the gravesite and a dispute arises over where to bury the bones.

As family stories are uncovered and old wounds aggravated, Chris must return to Beijing where he is afflicted by a chronic insomnia. As he wanders sleeplessly, searching fro a sense of home and waiting for his grandfather to be finally laid to rest, Chris stumbles onto Beijing’s punk revolution, discovers family secrets and discovers first love in all its intensity.

A feature film being developed with Daybreak Films (http://www.daybreakfilms.com.au/) and Christopher O’Young.
W/P Christopher O’Young. D Rhys Graham.

Amy and Billy are 9 and 7 year old siblings. They live in the inner suburbs of a large Australian city, and are like most children except for one thing: they share a special power. Their arms, legs and heads can all be detached and placed on each other’s bodies. This power also extends to their large, shaggy dog Sniffy, leading to all sorts of strange combinations of bodies! Every afternoon Amy, Billy and Sniffy go to the park and play. They use their special powers to entertain each other as well as to play tricks…

A new animated series of 15 x 1 minute interstitials from writer/director Van Sowerwine and animator Isobel Knowles, the team behind the award-winning Clara. Developed by the AFC.
W/D Van Sowerwine. Animator Isobel Knowles. 13 x 1mins. 2008.

Warm Blood is a raw, incendiary, daring vision of love between a brother and his sister. Brutally frank in its portrayal of sex and exposing an inner urban world rife with counter-cultural insight, Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s uncompromising debut feature hails from the depths of post Generation-X, from the golden age of neglect.

All Sam cares about is partying to within an inch of his life, being able to get an erection every now and then and his precious family of pet snakes.

A 20-something, charming neurotic small time dealer, Sam lives amongst a graffiti scarred maze of housing projects and industrial sprawl in Melbourne’s working class west.
Blurring his days and nights with a motley collection of clients, Sam’s surrogate family are Chilean stoners, Vietnamese ravers, African hip-hop kids and a volatile mix of petty criminals.

When Lana, a beautiful and headstrong teenage girl turns up on his doorstep, Sam wants nothing to do with her. But Lana shares a past with Sam and she refuses to leave.  As Lana settles in, cooking and washing to earn her keep, she roams the house wearing not much more than a singlet, and the sexual tension between them bubbles dangerously to the surface.

When Sam gets a phone call warning him not to repeat his past mistakes, he hurtles into a crystal meth binge that leaves him hospitalised and an emotional wreck. Lana nurses Sam back to health and for a brief moment the two co-exist in a semblance of normality. Sam even lets her tag along with him to his most cherished place- the reptile enclosure at the city zoo.

Yet Sam can’t stay away from old habits and he endangers himself with another bout of amphetamines. He awakens to find his stash stolen and in a maelstrom of panic, Sam must now find the thief; recover his drugs; and pay back his debts- all while trying to maintain his role as everybody’s friendly neighbourhood dealer.

When Sam blunders all attempts to get his life back and Lana is attacked, Sam has no choice but to seek brutal revenge.

In the aftermath Sam finds he no longer has the strength to resist Lana’s allure and the two finally collide in a delirious sexual encounter.

Locked in an embrace amongst the rubble of their former lives, theirs is a lifelong love, bound by blood and desire- the love between a brother and his sister.

Warm Blood is currently financing, with a budget around $AUD1,000,000. Seeking investment from AFC’s IndiVision Production Funding (February 2007); Film Victoria’s Production Funding; Private Investment; Local Distributor’s Advance; and Sales Agent’s Advance.

Warm Blood has been developed by Film Victoria and the AFC.
Written and directed by Amiel Courtin-Wilson
85 mins. Super16mm/35mm. Production, July 2007

www.warmbloodthemovie.com 

‘Til Hell Freezes is a fascinating longitudinal documentary that follows a small group of ex-prison inmates as they embark upon a very personal journey - battling loneliness and self destruction, trying to reconnect to the outside world, while writing and performing a theatre production based on their life in prison. Written and directed by Amiel Courtin-Wilson.

“Prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” - Angela Davis

‘Til Hell Freezes is a fascinating longitudinal documentary that follows a small group of ex-prison inmates as they embark upon a very personal journey - battling loneliness and self destruction, trying to reconnect to the outside world, while simultaneously writing and performing a theatre production based on their life in prison.

Developed by Film Victoria.
W/D Amiel Courtin-Wilson 56 mins. Mini-DV/HDV/Betacam. 2007. Production.

The Fibros and the Silvertails is Paul Oliver’s account of the feud between two rugby league football teams that turned into a war about class, politics and corruption. The teams are Sydney’s Wests and Manly. The year is 1978.

This is a film about football, family, class and place. It is a social history, a sports history and a political essay, framed within the story of childhood memories revisited and the filmmaker’s suspicions investigated.

Funded by the AFC. Currently in post-production, The Fibros and the Silvertails will screen on ABC TV in 2008.

Writer/Director Paul Oliver. 56 mins. HDV, Archival/Betacam. 2007. Post-production.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s feature length documentary about the phenomenal life of a self proclaimed fringe dweller- one of Australia’s virtually forgotten treasures- a man with an absolutely unique charm and spirit - Jack Charles.

Aboriginal elder, actor, cat burglar, junkie and gay, Jack Charles is a man of irrepressible contradictions and conflicting personas. Over six years, Bastardy follows Jack in and out of jail as he traverses the criminal underworld to support his raging heroin habit - all the while performing on the stages and film sets of some of Australia’s most renowned directors. Bastardy is a feature documentary about the phenomenal life of a self proclaimed fringe dweller.

Developed by Film Victoria, AFC and the ABC.

W/D Amiel Courtin-Wilson. feature length. 16mm, Mini-DV/Betacam & Archival. 2007. Post-Production.

A feature-length documentary exploring the Australian hip hop scene through intimate observations of some of the nation’s most progressive and compelling artists, including the Hilltop Hoods, Downsyde, Koolism, Bliss n Eso, MC Trey, TZU and Wire. Written & Directed by Rhys Graham & Natasha Gadd.

Words from the City is a feature-length documentary exploring the Australian hip hop scene through intimate observations of some of the nation’s most progressive and compelling artists, including the Hilltop Hoods, Downsyde, Koolism, Bliss n Eso, MC Trey, TZU and Wire. Across one long hot summer, we follow these MCs as they step into the verbal battle ground to express their personal, political and creative voices and cement their position at the vanguard of Australian hip hop.
Funded by the AFC, Film Victoria and the AFF, the film premiered at the Adelaide International Film Festival in 2007 and has gone on to screen at every Australian film festival. The film is distributed by Madman Entertainment and will screen nationally in the ABC TV’s JTV series on 14 December 2007.
Co-W/D Rhys Graham & Natasha Gadd. 90 mins. HD/Betacam. 2007