Projects
What we're working on
We’re developing an exciting slate of content featuring irreverent FNQ stories, music, food and travel programs and artist’s profiles for web, broadcast and theatrical release.
Kangaroo Rescue
Logline:
Kangaroo Rescue follows a charity rescuing and rehabilitating native wildlife, highlighting how caring for animals brings healing, purpose and transformation to both animals and volunteers.
Concept:
The Series offers an inside look at a Cairns-based charity dedicated to the recovery of injured and orphaned native wildlife.
Through compelling personal stories and behind-the-scenes footage, the series follows the charity’s work – from dramatic rescues and dedicated medical care to the animals’ release back in the wild once they’re healthy.
It also explores the life-changing impact that this work has on its dedicated team of volunteers, some of whom have found renewed purpose and healing in caring for these cute babies, underscoring the therapeutic power of compassion, connection and community.
Status:
In development
Format:
Documentary, 6. x 25 min. series
Taste of the Tropics
Synopsis:
Join Davy O’Rourke on a culinary journey across Tropical North Queensland as he prepares a traditional Papua New Guinean Mumu – earth oven – with the help of his Family and Friends.
Status:
Completed
Format:
30 min. Food / lifestyle episode for broadcast
Broadcaster:
SBS
Press Kit:
Download the press kit
Watch:
Watch the episode online
The Vegetable Plot
Created by Luke Escombe, The Vegetable Plot is a band on a mission of Love and Peas. We are collaborating with Luke, Veggie Plot Productions, Armchair Productions and the team behind award-winning shows ‘Motown Madness’ and ‘Beat Bugs’ to develop this musical project into an animated series.
The project has recently received funding and support from Screen Australia and YouTube through their flagship program ‘Skip Ahead’.
Listen to The Vegetable Plot on Spotify.
Status:
In development
Format:
2D animation: 6 x 2-min ep. Online + 24 x 7-min ep. Broadcast
Mini-Bible:
Download The Vegetable Plot Mini-Bible
The Moving Story of Captain Cook
Logline:
When Cairns infamous ‘nazi Captain Cook’ statue is put up for sale, a bizarre bidding war erupts between a motley crew of Far North Queenslanders. Featuring John Safran and Grant Scooter Patterson.
Genre:
Documentary, Satire, Comedy
Status:
Early development
Format:
4 x 5 min web series
Chasing the Magic Purple Line: The story of Madame Lash
Synopsis:
Join Madame Lash – Australia’s infamous dominatrix – as she begins the last chapter of her decades-long quest to capture Leonardo’s Magic Purple Line as revealed to her on an acid trip.
Through candid observation, intimate home-movies, evocative reconstructions and insightful interviews, we explore Gretel’s past and contemplate her legacy.
With unrestricted access to her mansion in Palm Beach, Australia’s most exclusive suburb – complete with an X-rated basement and an ‘anything can happen’ room, the film offers a first-hand, behind-the-scenes look into the life, work, and misadventures of Madame Lash.
Status:
In development
Format:
Initially developed as one of Australia’s first web series, now in development as a Feature-length documentary
Don Xyqote
A Don Quixote-inspired Fear and Loathing in Far North Queensland.
Logline:
After the sudden death of his local GP leaves Alonso without the medication for his paranoid schizophrenia, he embarks on a delusional quest across Queensland to rescue his platonic love, Candy, who he believes has been kidnapped.
Alongside his gullible companion Pancho, Alonso’s journey becomes a chaotic and darkly humorous odyssey through Far North Queensland, as his distorted reality brings imaginary enemies and monsters to life. Their misadventures culminate in a dramatic confrontation with reality, forcing them to face the consequences of their delusions.
Genre:
Psychological Thriller, Dark Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Status:
Early development
Format:
Feature Film
Darwin Amongst The Machines
Logline:
In the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, an English philosopher now settled in Far North Queensland becomes consumed by a growing paranoia that machines are evolving beyond human control, sparking a desperate correspondence with Charles Darwin as his fears spiral into dangerous obsession.
‘Darwin among the Machines’ is an article published in The Press newspaper on 13 June 1863 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Written by Samuel Butler, the article raises for the first time the possibility of ‘intelligent machines’, a kind of ‘mechanical life’ undergoing constant evolution, which eventually might supplant humans as the dominant species.
Genre:
Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Period Drama
Status:
Early development
Format:
Short film / POC + 3 x 60 mins. Limited Series
Voyage for Change: The Legacy of Rainbow Warrior II
Logline:
“Voyage for Change: The Legacy of Rainbow Warrior II” is a riveting one-hour documentary commemorating the 30th anniversary of a landmark event in environmental activism. The documentary centres on David Enever, the then captain of the Rainbow Warrior II, whose bold actions at Mururoa Atoll in July 1995 catalysed the cessation of French nuclear testing in the Pacific less than six months later.
Genre:
Documentary
Status:
Early development
Format:
Feature-length
Student Exchange
A global coming-of-age documentary series for teenagers and family co-viewing.
Genre:
Documentary
Status:
Early development
Format:
Returnable series
The Art of Mick Glasheen (working title)
Logline:
An exploration of the work of visionary artist Mick Glasheen.
Status:
Early development
Format:
Short documentary, VR
Other Media:
Visit this website for an interactive VR tour ‘Drawing on the Land’.
Copyright: Mick Glasheen & Peter Murphy