Acting
Leverne McDonnell (27 June 1963 - 15 March 2013) was an Australian actress and producer.
MR ELECTRIC is set in 1956. Bill, an Aboriginal electrician, returns to his home town to make peace with the racist, white-trash family who fostered him as a child and finds that his childhood sweetheart has married his best friend. Something has happened in the past which no one can forget. Bill offers to wire up their house and, in the process, wires up their relationship.
Leverne McDonnell was an Australian actor who died in 2013 from pancreatic cancer. This documentary depicts elements of her life and documents her facing death, with her consideration of the topic of euthanasia. While euthanasia has been legalised in some countries, it is not legal in Australia yet, despite support for it by the majority of the population in opinion polls.
Four different women, each with a well-hidden secret they are coaxed, tricked or forced into revealing... sometimes it's better to omit the truth.
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.
Justin Thorne is a liberal arts professor. One of his college students is Jennifer Carter. She seduces Justin, then accuses him of rape. But it turns out that she has an unusual relationship with her father.
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
The Lady Gorillas are a down-and-out basketball team from the country town of Goondi. They are at the bottom of the regional basketball ladder and are scheduled to play the last match of the season against The Sharks, who are not only at the top of the ladder, but are also mean and dirty players. There are five main players for the Lady Gorillas, and they're a hopeless lot, covering the gamut of 'social problems'. The last match of the season is about to commence, and the Lady Gorilla's coach, Graham, has no reason to think that for once, just for once, the Lady Gorillas might win!