IDEAS FOR FILM AND TELEVISION

(OR FILMS AND TV AS SHORT STORIES)

1996 LIARS GUNS AND MONEY

A FEATURE FILM

CO-WRITTEN AND DEVELOPED WITH JOHN HUGHES

1995 LUNATIC FRINGE

A MINI SERIES IN TEN PARTS

CO-WRITTEN AND DEVELOPED WITH BILL HUGHES AND SUSAN HAWORTH

1990 TAXI TO BUDAPEST

OR

TAKEN FOR A RIDE

A FEATURE FILM

CO-WRITTEN AND DEVELOPED WITH RINA REISS

A journey across Yugoslavia (to Hungary) in the months before it all fell apart after the death of Tito. This lead to a war which saw Yugoslavia brutally split into competing sub- national factions. The taxi ride (based on actual events) exposes the dramatic ethnic divide that strangely anticipates bloody conflict that was about to follow…

1989 IN VITERO VERITAS

A Morality Play for the Future

Idea for a 4 x 1/2 Hour TV Miniseries

1975 WRONG TURN

TREATMENT FOR FEATURE FILM

A small repertory theatre company is taking Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest around Australian country towns in the late 1950s . On route from a performance in Darwin to one in Mt. Isa their bus becomes lost and breaks down. Here, apparently by accident, they meet an elderly local – someone who fled to the area during the Second World War, and who has stayed there alone there ever since.

1975 HOUSE OF CARDS

CO-WRITTEN WITH PAUL CAVELL

BASED ON REAL EVENTS

1975 MORELANDS

CO-WRITTEN WITH PAUL EDDEY

The story is based on events that are believed to have occurred in an Australian city in the early 20th Century…