What's in production?

OCEAN (Documentary)

BBC Vision Studios
Producers:  BBC2
Sales and Distribution: BBC2, Discovery Channel
Synopsis: 8 part documentary series about the world’s oceans. Hosted by an explorer, maritime archaeologist and a marine biologist, the documentary takes an in-depth look at the world’s amazing historical diving sites and marine life. The series will be in Tasmania filming an episode.

Start: 19 April, 2008
Wrap: 4 May, 2008

THE LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE

Essential Media & Entertainment
Producers:  Nial Fulton
Director: Michael James Rowland
Sales and Distribution: ABC, RTE (Ireland), BBC Northern Ireland, History Channel UK
Synopsis: The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce follows the final days of the Irish convicts life as he awaits execution. The year is 1824 and the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land is little more than a living hell. Chained to a wall in the darkness of a cell under Hobart Gaol, Pearce is visited by Father Connolly, the parish priest of the fledgling colony and fellow Irishman. The Last Confession Of Alexander Pearce draws a visceral and compelling picture of a hell on earth and tells how one man endured the unimaginable by doing the unthinkable.

Start: 7 April, 2008
Wrap: 22 April, 2008

COLLECTORS

Goodwood Studio is currently utilised by the ABC for the production of Collectors, a weekly half-hour programme that looks at peoples'  collecting habits and obsessions and offers practical hints on what's hot in the world of collecting, how to care for and display a collection and the pitfalls of collecting.
An ABC TV production filmed and produced in Tasmania
ABC TV Head of General Factual, Denise Eriksen
Executive Series Producer, Colin Grubb.

ALIVE AND KICKING

Roar Film Pty Ltd, Hobart
Producers: Kath Symmons, Craig Dow Sainter
Director/Writer: Steve Thomas
Sales and Distribution: SBS
Synopsis: A four part series that follows five unique Tasmanian rural communities as they face the challenge of keeping Australian football alive and kicking.

PIXEL PINKIE

(13x24 minute mini-series)
Blue Rocket Productions Pty Ltd, Hobart
Producer: Alicia Rackett
Director: David Gurney
Animation Director: Matthew van Rooijen
Writers: Stephen Davis, Stu Connelly
Sales and Distribution: Blue Rocket, Daro, Nine Network
Synopsis: Newly arrived in town, Nina desperately wants to be accepted by her peers at her new school. If only she could be part of a normal, dysfunctional single-parent family, instead of an extended family of crystal gazing, 1970’s time-locked, hippie parents. Most of all, Nina wishes she had a mobile phone just like everyone else! When Nina's wish comes true, she discovers her new mobile phone has an unlikely occupant who can grant all of her wishes! But as Nina soon discovers, wishes seldom go exactly to plan.