After bumming around the world for a decade or so like a disgusting, unwashed hippy, I found myself living in a nice little apartment on the edge of a forest in Stockholm, Sweden and working a nine to five (shudder). A good mate was making a short film about the conversation between Santa Claus and an alien after a midair collision. Yours truly had the pleasure of freezing my arse off in the snow dressed as the alien. This was my first experience with the film making process and I'm here to tell you I wasn't enamoured. 

Nevertheless, I applied to Stockholm's Filmskola. The interview was a harrowing experience involving three instructors and three hopefuls vying for the same spot all in the same room. It might not have been so bad if they hadn't been speaking Swedish. I had to learn the lingo damn fast and made great friends along the way — many of whom I am still in contact with today. Our final project went on to win a bunch of awards at indie film festivals in Sweden.

Since coming back to Australia, in 2005, I’ve been writing consistently, won the odd award and furthered my education with a degree in creative writing and screen studies.

Below are some of the projects in the pipeline at the moment. If you see anything you like or are interested in, be sure to reach out.

Tony

This is an exciting project I’ve had the pleasure of being in the writing process since the beginning, and it’s creating a bit of a buzz.

For more info on Three Moon Hunt, contact Photoplay Films

In a universe where carnival folk are the most despised of ethnicities, Mac Veneer, a down on his luck writer, hitchhikes across the country in a desperate attempt to defy his ex-wife, and a restraining order, to get to his eight-year-old daughter. Along the way, he is picked up by a Kingsleigh the Clown. When Kingsleigh dies of natural causes, Veneer discovers a large sum of money in the boot of Kingsleigh’s car. Veneer decides to assume the identity of the clown. Veneer doesn’t realise, however, that carnival folk are a tight knit group and one does not simply don some face paint and call themselves a clown.

In this world of digital news and real-time knowledge, Adelaide bizarrely decides to leave her high-profile life as an inner city dwelling journalist in favour of running an old-school, small town newspaper. When the town is literally isolated by a natural disaster, a mysterious ship wreck marks the start of a spate of murders, rendering Adelaide’s newspaper the go to place for the hottest story in the country. Adelaide’s decision certainly seems to have paid off — right up until she becomes the number one suspect.

An adventure, fantasy, comedy romp about a timid, young girl, Jena, who has powers connecting her to nature, and render her a member of an elite, supernatural group. These guys are entrusted with maintaining balance between the inherent destructiveness of mankind and the delicate tolerance of the natural world. Once she learns of her place in the scheme of things, Jena must overcome her fears and go into battle against shapeshifting baddies who have taken over political leaders in order to coerce them into screwing up the environment and destroying all life on Earth.

In a post-apocalyptic hell-hole, two guns for hire meet to wait out the night for their mysterious employer’s arrival the following dawn. Mustang is carrying a locked box, Dallas the key. Neither knows what's inside and they have been given strict instructions not to open it. When one of these mercenaries proves to be a person of honour and the other most decidedly not, the question is not so much, "What's in the box?" as it is, "Who, if anyone, will survive the night?”

In a world where they’re feared and vilified, a group of ex-zombie hunters are hired to protect a village against a new threat: ‘smart’ zombies.