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form y separately published work icon The Straits series - publisher   film/TV   crime  
Note: The Straits is based on an idea by Aaron Fa'aoso and developed by Louis Nowra. Nowra is also credited with 'original ideas' on some episodes.
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Straits
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'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

Exhibitions

Notes

  • For further information, see the ABC website: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/thestraits/

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form y separately published work icon The Straits : Yawor - My Lovely Blake Ayshford , 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)
Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2012

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Note: Directors: Peter Andrikidis, episodes 1, 2, 3, and 8; Rachel Ward, episodes 4, 5, and 6; Rowan Woods, episodes 7, 9, and 10.

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema : Poetics and Screen Geographies Allison Craven , London : Anthem Press , 2016 11063066 2016 multi chapter work criticism

'‘Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema’ comprises eight essays, an introduction and conclusion, and the analysis of poetics and cultural geographies is focused on landmark films and television. The first section of the book, ‘Backtracks: Landscape and Identity’, refers to films from and before the revival, beginning with the 1978 film 'The Irishman' as an example of heritage cinema in which performances of gender and race, like the setting, suggest a romanticised and uncritical image of colonial Australia. It is compared to Baz Luhrmann’s 'Australia' (2008) and several other films. In the second chapter, ‘Heritage Enigmatic’, 'The Irishman' is also drawn into comparison with Charles Chauvel’s ‘Jedda’ (1955), as films that incorporate Indigenous performances in this heritage discourse through the role of voice and sound. In Part 2, ‘Silences in Paradise’, the first essay, ‘Tropical Gothic’, focuses on Rachel Perkins’s 'Radiance' (1998) as a landmark post-colonial film that questions the connotations of icons of paradise in Queensland. The discussion leads to films, in the next chapter, ‘Island Girls Friday’, that figure women on Queensland islands, spanning the pre-revival and contemporary era: ‘Age of Consent’ (1969), ‘Nim’s Island’ (2008) and ‘Uninhabited’ (2010). Part 3, ‘Masculine Dramas of the Coast’ moves to the Gold Coast, in films dating from before and since the current spike in transnational production at the Warner Roadshow film studios there, namely, 'The Coolangatta Gold' (1984), 'Peter Pan' (2003), and 'Sanctum' (2011). The final section, ‘Regional Backtracks’, turns, first, to two television series, ‘Remote Area Nurse’ (2006), and ‘The Straits’ (2012), that share unique provenance of production in the Torres Strait and far north regions of Queensland, while, in the final chapter, the iconic outback districts of western Queensland figure the convergence of land, landscape and location in films with potent perspectives on Indigenous histories in ‘The Proposition’ (2005) and ‘Mystery Road’ (2013). ‘Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema’ presents the various regions as syncretic spaces subject to transitions of social and industry practices over time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

The Straits Makes Crossing to U.S. 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Torres News , 8-14 April no. 1060 2013; (p. 9)
Online Fans Mourn the Loss of 'The Straits' 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Torres News , 29 October - 4 November no. 1039 2012; (p. 10)
ABC1 is not renewing The Straits for a second season.
From Rosehill to Red the Carpet for Jimi Bani Mark Roy , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Torres News , 6-12 June no. 1017 2012; (p. 7)
Gripping Local Tale Stranger than Fiction Peter Michael , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 March - 1 April 2012; (p. 65)
Straight Up Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 January 2012; (p. 26-27)

— Review of The Straits Louis Nowra , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Kristen Dunphy , Jaime Browne , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Give Aussies a Go Ian Warden , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 29 January 2012; (p. 27)

— Review of The Ice Dog Cometh Adam Zwar , Jason Gann , 2010 single work film/TV ; The Straits Louis Nowra , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Kristen Dunphy , Jaime Browne , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
A Relative Goldmine Ruth Ritchie , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 January 2012; (p. 20)

— Review of The Straits Louis Nowra , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Kristen Dunphy , Jaime Browne , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Free to Air Melinda Houston , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 January 2012; (p. 28)

— Review of The Straits Louis Nowra , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Kristen Dunphy , Jaime Browne , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Drugs, Guns and Sarongs Tim Elliott , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 29 January 2012; (p. 4)

— Review of The Straits Louis Nowra , Blake Ayshford , Nicholas Parsons , Kristen Dunphy , Jaime Browne , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Production Underway in 'The Straits' 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Torres News , 22 - 28 June no. 969 2011; (p. 24)
New Crime Drama Set in Torres Strait 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 29 June no. 504 2011; (p. 41)
The Straits Set to Take Over Our Tellies 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Torres News , 11 January no. 996 2012; (p. 1)
Screen The Straits on Sunday Night Dianne Butler , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 February 2012; (p. 3)
Among the Elite Andrew Fenton , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 February 2012; (p. 11)
Last amended 1 Mar 2013 15:59:00
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