Screenplays
Jinn Genie
A man in love, desperate and disturbed, stumbles across a Persian genie. He is granted a wish to win is heart’s desire, but this only proves to be the beginning of his troubles.
Finalist
Austin Comedy Film Festival 2021
Finalist
Circus Road Screenplay Contest
Quarter-finalist.
Screenwriter’s Network. London.
A crazy,romantic comedy but with a subtle theme about the need to face one’s wounds in order to grow into a healthy way of relating.
Atlantis Will Fall
Atlantis Will Fall was the 2023 grand final winner of the HumOngous Screenplay competition.
Action adventure about the final day of the legendary kingdom of Atlantis.
A young priest discovers he has been named ‘The Child of Chaos’ the harbinger of the cataclysm that is about to sink the fantastical city of Atlantis. Too late to clear his name, the priest now must face the fact that it maybe too late to escape death. However a strange meeting with a young priestess is about to turn everything he knew on its head.
Based on the lore and mythology surrounding the lost city of Atlantis.
Lost Civilisation
A modern comedy about greed, love and upsizing.
Handsome property manager, Ross Ives, finds out he might lose his posh, designer home. Desperate for money, he conjures up an outlandish real estate swindle, but Ross’s plan goes haywire, with consequences that affect his whole family.
Wheel of Karma
When a powerful demon threatens medieval Tibet, a young monk must fight the demons within himslef before he can lead his people to freedom.
Based on the true histories and fantastical legends of medieval Tibet and the early Dalai Lamas.
A landscape of terrifying demons, bizarre creatures and strange contraptions.
Game as Ned
Where it started. The original screenplay.
Short Films. Written and Directed
Too Hot to Handle
Winner of the Best Comedy Film. 2020 Blue Shorts Film Festival.
BANC Blackheath Community Access Service devised short film.
Slug it to ’em. A quirky comedy about the elixir of life.
Two couples jogging in the Australian bush find a miraculous discovery that will change their lives forever.
Peta Toppano, Richard Affleck, Lee Louise, Ken Bromilow, Hairy Jim.
Midwinter Mummers.
A salutary reflection on the beginnings of mankind.
Promo video for the Katoomba Winter Magic Festival.
Collaborations.
How the Kangaroo got her Pouch
A traditional Wiradjiri dreamtime story. Interpreted and performed by Koori dancers living in the Blue Mountains and neighbouring Wiradjiri country. Janelle Randall-Court, David Yamandirra, Muliyan, Old Joe.
Thank you to the Australia Council for the Arts and the Blue Mountains City Council.
Historic Rivercamp Kidnap
A recreation of colonial troopers and a blacktracker taking children from their indigenous mother. The taken sequence was filmed in one shot, at the Mehi river, Moree.
Starring Aunty Bronwyn Spearim
Thank you to the Australia Council for the Arts and the Blue Mountains City Council.
Welcome to Country in Language
Uncle Graham Merritt, David Yamandirra, Muliyan.
Blue Mountains Film Festival
Along with Ryko Kalinko, the first Blue Mountains film festival was established in 2008 as an official event of the 2008 Winter Magic Festival.
The short film festival evolved into the Blue Mountains Film Festival. More information on the life of the Blue Mountains Film Festival can be found here: http://taylorfilm.com/portfolio-item/the-blue-mountains-film-festival/
Acute Misfortune
Worked as the Blue Mountains casting director on Thomas M. Wright’s biopic Acute Misfortune about the controversial artist Adam Cullen.
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