AustLit

'At a rundown Municipal swimming pool, an overweight, sixty year old swimming coach squints at the sky and dreams of his only son representing Australia in the Olympic Games...

'And so begins the compelling and hilarious story of Max O'Bannion; a father, a veteran, a swim coach - and a real character!

'Based around true events, this epic tale spans three decades and three continents. Full of love and loss and mayhem, Made In Australia is guaranteed to make you laugh and make you cry. If ever a book proves that blood is not always thicker than (chlorinated) water, this is it!' (Source: Author's website)

For twenty years, Eddy has worked on a fishing trawler by day and moonlighted as a standover man by night, seeking extra money to full his wife's social aspirations. Now, with his relationship with his teenage daughter strained, he sends his sidekick in to read her diary. It's all part of what Eddy's willing to do to keep his family together.

'Ralph (Matt Day) leaves his parents' property in western Queensland with his guitar and a ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. His plans to become a country singer take a detour when a flamboyant couple in a large black car stop to pick him up. Boyd (Richard Roxburgh) and his girlfriend Patsy (Miranda Otto) are sophisticated world-travellers. Unfortunately, Boyd is also carrying a large amount of illegal drugs. He and Ralph are soon in a police cell, with three country-singing convicts (Tony Barry, Kiri Paramore and Laurence Coy). Patsy escapes into the night. In a parallel story, Ralph imagines a completely different reality, in which he and Patsy team up as a singing duo in Nashville, with Boyd as her conniving manager. The two stories run side by side throughout the film, as Boyd and Ralph prepare to face justice. When Patsy reappears with bad news, Ralph has to make some hard choices.'

Source: Australian Screen website. (Sighted: 2/8/2012)

'This Won't Hurt A Bit! is a bizarre and different comedy in a docu-dramatic style, set in Hong Kong, England and Australia, and deals with an Australian dentist who overservices the British public and then goes on the run from Interpol. While the police bale Gordon Fairweather up in a bar in Hong Kong awaiting the arrival of this accomplice, a series of interviews with people from Gordon's past and dramatic reconstruction of events gradually reveal the inner fire that drives the man on. And reveal the flame that burns in Gordon's heard for a Portsmouth dental nurse with a speech impedient – the first and only woman in his life.' (Source: http://www.thiswonthurtabitmovie.com/ )

Chris Kennedy's debut film.

A philanthropic entrepreneur plans to use his wealth for the broader benefit of society, but is stymied by his corrupt attorney, his own wife (who is also the attorney's lover), and the predations of a mysterious serial killer, who is slashing women to death with a shard of glass.

Screen Australia describes the film as 'A thriller and a mystery of distortions and reflections about friendship, flowers and carving knives. A haunting, stylised tale of escape.' (Sighted: 6/8/2013)