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Upright is a comedy-drama TV show set in the Australian outback. It follows the story of a pianist who embarks on a road trip across the country with a runaway teenager. Along the way, they encounter various misfits and face their own personal struggles, ultimately forming an unlikely friendship.
After a hit-and-run accident, a police officer must confront his guilt and navigate a web of lies and corruption to protect his reputation.
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.
A musician named David starts suffering from tinnitus after witnessing a brutal act of violence. The noise becomes unbearable and starts affecting his relationships and career. Determined to find the source of the noise, David starts investigating the incident while dealing with his deteriorating mental state.
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
A writer tells a joke. Complications ensue.
Roy Höllsdotter (Darren Casey) is a stand-up comedian in his late 30s making an adequate living as a pub performer. However, all is not well in his personal life – he’s drinking too much and has been stalking his ex-girlfriend Cate (Asher Keddie). When his best friend Simmo (Luke Elliot) finds out what Roy is doing, he tries to intervene, but Roy’s problems only worsen and begin to affect his ability to create and perform his stand-up routines.
Franz & Kafka are based on the little irreverent premise that Kafkas work “Die Verwandlung†was written by two humans, this film is a great homage to Kafkas writing.
A mother. A son. A phone call.
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Matthew Saville
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Matthew Saville is an Australian television and film director, who began his career working as a titles designer for many Australian television series. Several of his short films, including Franz and Kafka have received awards and screened widely at film festivals. Matthew Saville came to wider prominence as a writer/director with his one hour film Roy Hollsdotter Live, a bittersweet comedy about a stand-up comedian experiencing a personal breakdown. The film won awards at the Sydney Film Festival in 2003, as well as at the Australian Writers' Guild Awards. The success of that film led, among other things, to a highly successful career as a television comedy director, including the acclaimed Big Bite and We Can Be Heroes, on both occasions working with Chris Lilley. In addition, Matthew Saville has directed episodes of the Australian television drama series The Secret Life of Us as well as directing the first three episodes of The Surgeon. In 2007 Saville's feature film debut Noise was released, for which he received an AFI nomination for Best Director. In 2010 he began directing Cloudstreet, a television miniseries version of Tim Winton's novel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Saville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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