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8 x 30 min documentary series
Drama series 6 x 60 minutes, Returnable, repeatable. For the past year, PHILOMENA “PHIL” JACKSON has kept to herself as a park ranger near Alice Springs in central Australia. But that all changes when a young detective, JIM “JOHNNY” YOUNG, discovers that she was a celebrated forensic anthropologist back in the UK and asks her to help identify a recently discovered body that was badly mutilated by animals.
Factual series 10 x 60 minutes, Returnable, repeatable. Outback Heroes is a series which portrays the extraordinary courage of the Northern Territory St John Ambulance volunteers, where they saves the lives of others time and again. Set in some of the most unforgiving parts of Central Australia, the series shows the incredible challenges tackled by the volunteers.
Factual series 4 x 60 minutes, Returnable, repeatable. Did you know there is a unique place in Central Australia at the fore front of efforts to stop species from becoming extinct? The Park follows the incredible journeys of the people working with endangered species at the Alice Springs Desert Park. The specialists of this unique, traditionally owned park are dedicated to saving endangered wildlife and share their knowledge with each new breakthrough.
Factual Series 3 x 60 minutes No time To Sleep is a series which portrays the extraordinary lengths people go to, to find out how far they can push themselves, during an endurance race. It follows the incredible challenges tackled by runners and event organisers of the West Macs Monster, a 231 km single-stage, non-stop, self-sufficient endurance race along the world-renowned Larapinta trail.
Factual Series 3 x 60 minutes Critical Care pulls back the hospital curtain to see first-hand what death looks like inside modern hospitals. In a revolutionary new series, we take a provocative look into palliative care in hospitals and the content will tackle taboos, expose uncomfortable truths about the medicalization of a natural part of life, dying. Most horrific, is medicine’s de facto torture of frail, vulnerable, elderly people and its cruel impact on families.
Factual Feature 1 x 60 minutes Big Mob Horses will reveal something of the lives of the Gulf stockmen, and the connection between the old men and their horses. It will show the Bugamba Yarraman project as it develops though the phases of restoring old stockyards using timber felled by Cyclone Trevor, mustering and training some of the many brumbies that roam free across the Garawa lands. And all the while teaching these valued skills to the young men and women of the community.
Factual series 6 x 30 minutes, Returnable, repeatable. In outback Australia and other countries around the world, flying is a reality and a way of life. With distances so large that flying is the only way of getting around your property, and just getting your groceries is a day trip, planes are not just a way of life but a necessity. Light Plane Builders follows aircraft builders and restorers from across Australia as they buy, fix, build and restore aircraft.