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Blake Ayshford Blake Ayshford i(A19878 works by)
Born: Established: 1969 ;
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon What You Do Now Steven McGregor , Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Warwick Thornton ) Australia : Bunya Productions Australian Broadcasting Commission , 2020 20826126 2020 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Requiem Kris Mrksa , Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Mahalia Belo ) United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 2018 13538033 2018 series - publisher film/TV thriller horror fantasy

Twenty-four years after toddler Carys Howell goes missing in Wales, Matilda Grey's mother Janice commits suicide in front of her. Finding a box of clippings about Carys's disappearance, Matilda travels to the village of Penllynith, hoping to get to the bottom of the mysteries of the missing child and her mother's suicide. But the locals hostile, except Australian Nick Dean, who has inherited a mansion nearby, and dark forces are stirring.

1 11 form y separately published work icon Mystery Road Michaeley O'Brien , Steven McGregor , Kodie Bedford , Jon Bell , Timothy Lee , Blake Ayshford , Danielle Maclean , ( dir. Rachel Perkins et. al. )agent Australia : Bunya Productions Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2018-2020 11467193 2018 series - publisher film/TV detective

Series one:

'Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two young farm hands on an outback cattle station. One is a local Indigenous footy hero, and the other a backpacker. Working with local cop Emma James (Judy Davis), Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.'

Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2017/07-12-mystery-road-series). (Sighted: 13/07/2017)


Series two:

'A headless corpse is found floating by the shore in a remote outback town. As if this weren’t mysterious enough, Detective Swan and his colleague Fran have to contend with protests against the excavation of an Indigenous site. And then another body turns up.'

Source: Berlinale program (Sighted: 13/02/2020)

1 form y separately published work icon Fighting Season Blake Ayshford , Kylie Needham , Tommy Murphy , Belinda Chayko , ( dir. Ben C. Lucas et. al. )agent Australia : Goalpost Pictures , 2018 10730603 2018 series - publisher film/TV war literature thriller

'Fighting Season is a timely and emotionally resonant series that follows the lives of a group of Australian soldiers, and their families, returned home suddenly after their commander is killed in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan. Part mystery thriller, part relationship drama, it asks us to examine the human costs of war.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 8 form y separately published work icon Tomorrow, When the War Began Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Justin Monjo , Josh Mapleston , ( dir. Brendan Maher ) Australia : Ambience Entertainment ABC Television , 2016 8570775 2016 series - publisher film/TV

'When their country is invaded by a large hostile force, a group of teenagers fight for their family and homeland. Based on the era-defining novels by John Marsden.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 4 form y separately published work icon Barracuda Belinda Chayko , Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Robert Connolly ) Australia : Matchbox Productions Pty Ltd , 2016 8569798 2016 series - publisher film/TV

'Based on the book of the same name by Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda follows young Olympic hopeful, Danny Kelly, as he deals with the pressure of obsession.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 14 form y separately published work icon Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , ( dir. Rachel Ward et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2014 Z1912252 2014 series - publisher film/TV '1988. Thirty-five years after Fred Schepisi's film The Devil's Playground, Tom Allen, now a psychiatrist, becomes a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.' (Source: Screen Australia)
1 12 form y separately published work icon Cut Snake Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Tony Ayres ) Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2014 Z1912214 2014 single work film/TV

'Set in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of twenty-something Sparra Farrell, a very private man who is trying to start a new life in Melbourne. He has found honest work and becomes engaged to the beautiful Paula. But his past catches up with him and threatens his new life when the charismatic Pommie tracks him down. Sparra finds himself sucked back into a world that he thought he had left behind.' (Source: SBS website)

1 5 form y separately published work icon Nowhere Boys The Lost Boys Craig Irvin , Rhys Graham , Elise McCredie , Roger Monk , Polly Staniford , Shanti Gudgeon , Giula Sandler , David Hannam , Pete McTighe , John Ridley , Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Peter Carstairs et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Productions Pty Ltd Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2013-2019 Z1917831 2013 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy 'Four boys get lost in the forest, and discover, when they return home, that they have returned to an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.' (Source: Screen Australia)
1 3 form y separately published work icon An Accidental Soldier Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Rachel Ward ) Australia : Taylor Media Essential Viewing , 2013 Z1912311 2013 single work film/TV

'Harry Lambert, a shy and gentle man, shamed by his rural Australian town into joining the armed forces as a baker in the service corps. When the bakers are thrown into the front line, Harry deserts. In countryside swarming with gendarmes, Harry barely avoids capture when Colombe Jacotot takes pity on him. Colombe is a stoic farm-wife, bowed by hard work and tragedy. Within her bare cottage, Harry and Colombe discover a love that is as powerful as it is unexpected.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 31/3/2014)

1 13 form y separately published work icon The Code Shelley Birse , Blake Ayshford , Justin Monjo , ( dir. Shawn Seet ) Australia : ABC Television Playmaker Media , 2013 Z1912246 2013 series - publisher film/TV thriller

The Code is a fictional thriller set between the remote Australian desert and the corridors of power in Canberra. A murder in the Outback thrusts two unlikely brothers into an international political conspiracy.

1 17 form y separately published work icon The Time of Our Lives Kris Mrksa , Michael Miller , Ursula Cleary , Blake Ayshford , Judi McCrossin , ( dir. Chris Noonan et. al. )agent 2013 Australia : JAHM JAHM Productions , 2013 6024909 2013 series - publisher film/TV

'The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the Tivolli clan, a typical extended Australian family, set in a moody inner city Melbourne.

'In their thirties and forties, contemporary life is filled with kids, career advancement, home ownership and the variations of love: settling in with the one you love; still trying to find the one you love; getting away from the one you used to love.' (Source: ABC TV website)

1 form y separately published work icon The Straits : Yawor - My Lovely Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Peter Andrikidis ) Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2012 Z1881305 2012 single work film/TV 'A hired killer, Vlad (Richard Cawthorne), sets out for Cairns with a high-powered rifle. Harry is his target, but who has hired Vlad?

As Harry prepares for his and Kitty's wedding anniversary, Kitty takes Gary back to the islands to persuade the Zey Islanders they need to protect Gary better.

Meanwhile, wrestling with her discovery of Paddy's (Kim Gyngell) embezzlement, Sissi finally tells Harry what she has learned.

Harry is deeply upset by the news. He takes Paddy on their weekly fishing expedition and confronts him over the money he's skimmed.

When Sissi learns what Harry has done, she is shocked and wracked with guilt. She has an almighty fight with her father and runs.

Gary, who has been bitten by a snake on Zey and believes he's going to die, tells Harry that he slept with his brother's wife Lola (Emma Lung).

Harry, who has never liked Lola much, confronts her and tells her she is out of the family, however, before he has time to tell the others what has happened, Vlad has Harry in his sights.' (Source: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc1/201202/programs/DR1020Q003D2012-02-09T203319.htm?program=The%20Straits)
1 35 form y separately published work icon The Straits Louis Nowra , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Kristen Dunphy , Jaime Browne , Aaron Fa’aoso , ( dir. Peter Andrikidis et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Pictures Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2012 Z1787533 2012 series - publisher film/TV crime

'Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia's Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama.

'The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.

'When Harry, the head of the family, starts to plan his succession, a power struggle is sparked between brother and brother, wife and daughter. Under attack from ambitious bikies and mercurial PNG Raskols, the family must hold together through torture, assassination and imprisonment.'

Source: ABC1 website, http://www.abc.net.au/tv/thestraits/
Sighted: 30/01/2012

1 23 form y separately published work icon Crownies Greg Haddrick , Jane Allen , Kylie Needham , Tamara Asmar , Blake Ayshford , Justine Gillmer , Pete McTighe , Chris Hawkshaw , Stuart Page , Sam Meikle , ( dir. Cherie Nowlan et. al. )agent Australia : Screentime Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2011 Z1786353 2011 series - publisher film/TV crime

'Delving into the extraordinary world of the Office of the Department of Public Prosecution and its young eager lawyers, who know the law backwards, but who have a lot to learn about life, Crownies, is a 22 x 1 hour drama, produced by Screentime Australia for ABC TV.

Crownies follows five young solicitors, fresh out of law school, as they face the pressures and endearing madness of modern single life - in a fast-paced workplace that highlights the moral dilemmas and big issues facing an apparently civilised society.

In a world that exists solely to see 'wrong-doers' brought to justice, and where the average age of the solicitors is 27, there is a big divide between these young solicitors and the barristers at the top. Yet they are the initial point of contact with the police, and it is they who do most of the liaising with the victims and the witnesses - and recommend what goes to court. They are hungry, committed, idealistic and hard-working, but their lives away from the office are riddled with aspirations, explorations, fragile relationships and partying.'

Source: ABC website

1 form y separately published work icon My Place : Series Two Alice Addison , John Alsop , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Greg Waters , Dallas Winmar , Tony Briggs , Wayne Blair , ( dir. Rachel Ward et. al. )agent 2011 8891899 2011 single work film/TV

The story of one place on earth told by the children who live there from 1878 to before white settlement. The second part of MY PLACE, the series is based on the Nadia Wheatley/ Donna Rawlins book. (Source: Screen Australia website)

1 8 form y separately published work icon My Place Alice Addison , Beth Armstrong , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Jacquelin Perske , Leah Purcell , Tim Pye , Greg Waters , Brendan Cowell , Gina Roncoli , John Alsop , Samantha Lang , Wayne Blair , Dallas Winmar , Tony Briggs , ( dir. Shawn Seet et. al. )agent Australia : Little Leaf Pictures Matchbox Pictures ABC Television , 2009-2011 Z1649817 2009-2011 series - publisher film/TV children's historical fiction My Place, based on the award-winning book My Place by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins, is a thirteen-part drama series that tells the story of one house in South Sydney through the experiences of the children who live there over a 130-year period. My Place aims to show that everyone is part of history and that every place has a story.
1 form y separately published work icon My Place Series One Alice Addison , Beth Armstrong , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Jacquelin Perske , Leah Purcell , Tim Pye , Greg Waters , ( dir. Jessica Hobbs et. al. )agent 2009 8891658 2009 single work film/TV

'My Place, the much loved Australian children's classic, tells the story of the children who live in one place over 130 years. In Volume One, meet Laura who's struggling to own up to her actions. It's 2008 and the Prime Minister is trying to do the same with her mob. Mohammed is into cricket, when he can't join the boys' team he ends up on the girls' side and they're a force to be reckoned with. ' (Source: TROVE)

1 form y separately published work icon The Alice Christopher Lee , Sarah Smith , Jeff Truman , Adam Todd , John Ridley , Liz Doran , John O'Brien , Blake Ayshford , Justin Monjo , Sarah Lambert , Greg Waters , Justin Monjo , Robyn Sinclair , ( dir. Daina Reid et. al. )agent Australia : Southern Star John Edwards Nine Network , 2005-2006 Z1878870 2005-2006 series - publisher film/TV fantasy

Based on the original tele-movie, The Alice follows the adventures of a group of people who, drawn to Alice Springs through a series of fateful encounters, find they still have more to do in the town.

The program was cancelled after a single series due to poor viewing figures.

1 form y separately published work icon The Cooks Emily Ballou , Andrew Kelly , Tim Pye , Sue Smith , Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , ( dir. Brendan Maher et. al. )agent 2004 Sydney : Chapman Pictures Network Ten , 2004 Z1365643 2004 series - publisher film/TV

The Cooks, a 13-part series made for Network Ten, centres on the relationships between the staff of rival restaurants. The series first went into production in October 2003 after the screening of the telemovie Temptation, on which it is based, in August. Episode one was screened on Network Ten 18 October 2004. Only one season of the series was produced, the final episode was screened 2 July 2005. The series was also screened in Canada.

'The Cooks begins with the return of Gabe Francobelli (Toby Schmitz) a young hot-shot chef who comes back to Sydney's inner-west after a year away working in the top kitchens of Europe. Gabe is shocked to find his family restaurant has closed down, having lost the battle to rival restaurant "R & R" run by Rita (Rhondda Findleton) and Gabe's former classmate and lover Ruth (Kate Atkinson). With help from two of his best mates Sachin (Nicholas Brown) and Dishpig (Leon Ford), Gabe reinvents his family restaurant renaming it "Snatch and Grab" and throws down the gauntlet to the girls. The battle of the restaurants begins: Classmate vs Classmate. Lover vs Lover. Boys vs Girls.'

Source: Network Ten publicity, October 16, 2003 (Sighted 27/01/12)

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