A Cold Summer
Dark Love Story
Josh Jarman
Love's Brother
One Perfect Day
Right Here Right Now
Somersault [AFI Best Picture]
Strange Bedfellows
Strange James
The Finished People
The Honourable Wally Norman
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Thunderstruck
Tom White
Under the Radar

A Cold Summer [imdb]
Director, Writer: Paul Middleditch
Cast Includes: Teo Gebert, Olivia Pegeot, Susan Prior
Genre: Drama

This contemporary drama following the lives of three twentysomethings who deal with individual loss in different ways is a compelling, powerful and honest portrait of the truth behind three individual lives that is both comic and tragic.

Dark Love Story
Director, Writer: Jon Hewitt
Cast Includes: Belinda McClory, Aaron Pedersen, Chris Baz, Anthony Phelan
Genre: Drama

A breathless thriller about two star-crossed lovers chasing a happy ending. Gretchen (Belinda McClory, The Matrix) and Gil (Aaron Pedersen, Dead Heart) are unlucky. Desperate for cash, Gil has a fake gun and a crazy plan for them to live happily ever after.

Josh Jarman
Director, Writer: Pip Mushin
Cast Includes: Marcus Graham, Damien Richardson, Kestie Morassi, Daniella Farinacci, Kym Gyngell
Genre: Comedy

Marcus Graham plays Josh Jarman, a struggling playwright who has written a long, serious play about doomed love, failed relationships and the overall hurt and heartache of falling in love.

Love's Brother [imdb] www.lovesbrother.com
Director: Jan Sardi
Cast Includes: Adam Garcia, Giovani Ribisi
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

In despair of ever finding love, shy introverted Angelo uses a photo of his handsome brother to convince a beautiful Italian girl across the sea to marry him. Gino's delighted for Angelo but when he lays eyes on his brother's betrothed, it's love at first sight. Touching and funny, sentimental and heart-warming, this is a magical, sweetly nostalgic journey about roots, family, sacrifice and the power of true love.

One Perfect Day [imdb]
Director: Paul Currie
Cast Includes: Dan Spielman, Leeanna Walsman, Nathan Phillips, Kerry Armstrong
Genre: Drama

Tommy Matisse (Dan Spielman pictured above) is a gifted musician who undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.

Right Here Right Now
Director, Writer, Actor: Mathew Newton
Cast Includes: Dai Paterson, Tim Draxl, Tim Richards, Pia Miranda, Geoff Morrell
Genre: Drama

Five friends escape to a small coastal town, where they partied hard at the end of school, to save their suicidal pal Dan. They burn it savagely at both ends but a lot's changed since the lads were in year 12 and what they don't know is that Dan has a very different reason for this weekend away.

Somersault [imdb]
Director: Cate Shortland
Cast Includes: Sam Worthington, Abbie Cornish, Lynette Curran, Nathaniel Dean
Genre: Drama

A compelling, unusual drama about the sex and strife of a runaway (Abbie Cornish) desperate to make a connection. Set in the ski fields of Australia.

Strange Bedfellows [imdb]
Director: Dean Murphy
Cast Includes: Michael Caton, Paul Hogan, Alan Cassell, Kestie Morassi
Genre: Comedy

Two 'very straight' old timers (Hogan and Caton) have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly leglislated tax laws.

Strange James
Director, Writer: David Reid
Cast Includes: Justin Greenaway, Mark Withers, Steve Kennedy
Genre: Thriller

Strange James is set around a high school, and focuses on a 17-year-old boy and his family who move to Canberra to go into hiding from a predator. While in Canberra he starts to have weird fantasies to escape the painfully boring reality. Then something happens that will change his life forever!

The Finished People [imdb]
Director: Khoa Do
Cast Includes: Rodney Anderson, Viet Dang, Mylinh Dinh
Genre: Drama

A journey into the world of Australian streetkids, caught up in a cycle of homelessness, drugs and crime. The only way out is hope.

The Honourable Wally Norman [imdb]
Director: Ted Emery
Cast Includes: Kevin Harrington, Alan Cassell, Shaun Micallef, Rosalind Hammond, Reg Evans
Genre: Comedy

Small town family man Wally Norman thinks politicians are a joke. Then due to an administrative bungle he discovers he's become one. Can he rise to the occasion and save the day without becoming the very thing he's always despised? The Honourable Wally Norman is an irreverent and uplifting poke at the political process which shows us little guys don't have to lose against the big guns if they first don't lose sight of themselves.

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories [imdb]
Director: Rolf De Heer
Cast Includes: Richard Dreyfuss, Hugo Weaving, Timothy Spall
Genre: Adventure / Drama

A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.

Thunderstruck [imdb]
Director, Writer: Darren Ashton
Cast Includes: Damon Gameau, Ryan Johnson, Callan Mulvey, Sam Worthington, Kestie Morassi
Cinematogapher: Geoffrey Hall
Genre: Comedy

After a near death experience, five Boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott. 12 years later, having gone their different ways, they come together to fulfill the promise.

Tom White [imdb]
Director: Alkinos Tsilimidos
Cast Includes: Colin Friels, Rachael Blake, Dan Spielman, Bill Hunter, Loene Carmen, David Field
Genre: Drama

An architect experiences a mental breakdown with life-changing results.

Under the Radar [imdb]
Director: Evan Clarry
Cast Includes: Nathan Phillips, Clayton Watson, Steady Eddy, Chloe Maxwell, Robert Menzies
Genre: Comedy / Thriller

A surfer working in a home for the mentally impaired takes 2 paitents on a day trip to the beach that has horrific results.