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Some of our films...

HOW TO POISON A PLANET
 

An iKandy Films Production

A Stan Originals

Directed by Katrina McGowan

Produced by Janine Hosking, Katrina McGowan and Mat Cornwell

With behind the scenes access to the largest litigation involving drinking water in American history, How to Poison A Planet investigates how the use of a product as seemingly harmless as firefighting foam, has resulted in the contamination of communities all over the world. Spanning from the heart of New York City to a small First Nations community in Australia taking on its own David and Goliath battle, the film exposes one of the most widespread environmental disasters in human history.


The film features actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, environmental lawyers Rob Bilott and Ned McWilliams, and trial lawyers, Gary Douglas and Rebecca Newman, investigative journalist, Carrie Fellner and the people of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community.

THE EULOGY 

Co-Production with Freshwater Pictures and Grusoflix
 

Inspired by former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s searing eulogy to Geoffrey Tozer, music educator Richard Gill explores the remarkable and tragic story of Australia’s greatest ever, and perhaps most overlooked, pianist.


World Premiere: Melbourne International Film Festival 

 

Distributed by Madman Entertainment 

Awards:

Nomination: Best Feature Documentary- AACTA Awards 2019
Nomination: Best Feature Documentary- SPA Awards 2019

Reviews:

Hosking does Tozer and us a service by broadening our understanding, both of what made him great and of what might have brought him to such a point.

The Age / SMH / Brisbane Times ★★★★ Paul Byrnes

He (Richard Gill) gives this sometimes sad, sometimes joyous detective story a narrative spine and a lot of heart. Highly recommended.”

ABC Radio – Nightlife  ★★★★ CJ Johnson

“The film raises important questions about the significance of Tozer in our cultural canon”

The Conversation 

 

“a fascinating, balanced and very moving documentary.”

FilmInk

35 LETTERS 

35 Letters is an inventive and deeply moving account of 31-year-old Melbourne writer Angelique Flowers in the last phases of her terminal illness, as she struggles to find a peaceful way to die - not in a hospice, but somewhere altogether more in tune with her spirit.

World Premiere: Sydney International Film Festival

 

Awards:

Winner: Best Documentary- Sydney International Film Festival

Reviews:

“Unflinching, confronting, brave”

Sydney Film Festival judges 

THE MEMORIAL, BEYOND THE ANZAC LEGEND

An Eyeworks TV Production

Directed and Co-Executive Produced by Janine Hosking (iKandy Films)

In the lead up to the 100th anniversary of the First World War, international broadcaster and renowned historian Neil Oliver takes us behind-the-scenes of one of the world’s most iconic institutions, the Australian War Memorial. With unprecedented access to the memorial, its staff and its rarely seen precious archives, this landmark documentary series follows all the action across its busiest and most momentous year to date.

5 x 1 hour documentary series for Foxtel's History Channel

GANJA QUEEN

A behind-the-scenes look at the trial of Schapelle Corby, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for smuggling marijuana into Indonesia.


World TV Premiere: HBO 

 

Premiere Film Festival: Slamdance Film Festival Preview Screening

 

Awards:

Nomination: Most Outstanding Documentary- Logie Awards

Reviews:
"Powerful” 

Wall Street Journal 
 

“Harrowing and electrifying” 

Variety

MY KHMER HEART

An Australian woman fights to save her orphanage in Cambodia against the country's ever-changing political backdrop.

 

World TV Premiere: HBO

Film Festivals:

Hollywood Film Festival

Montreal Film Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

 

Awards:

Top 8 Documentary Shortlist Academy Awards 
Winner: Best Documentary- Hollywood Film Festival
Winner: Best Documentary- NAMIC Cable Awards

Winner: Best Documentary- Gracie Allen Award  United States

Winner: Best Documentary- Clarion Women in Television United States

Nomination: Independent Spirit Awards Australia

Reviews:

"This film can absolutely not fail to captivate an audience. The film is a powerful experience” 
Kirk Honeycutt- Hollywood Reporter

"This logical successor to "The Killing Fields" 
Robert Koehler- Daily Variety

“…..a remarkable study in the serendipity of finding one’s rightful place. Inspiring"
Julie Salamon - New York Times 

The documentary is a visual feast. As its multi-layered plot unfolds, it feels as if you are watching a lavish feature film".
The Australian 

 

MADEMOISELLE AND THE DOCTOR

'"I don't feel free in my physical life any more." Healthy French Academic Lisette Nigot is determined to die before her 80th birthday. She turns to 'Doctor Death' for help.

World Premiere: IDFA, Amsterdam 

 

Film Festivals:

Sydney Film Festival

FIPA, Paris

Melbourne International Film Festival

Silverdocs, Washington

Awards: 

Nomination: Best Documentary- Film Critics Circle, Australia
Official Selection Joris Ivens Award, Amsterdam International Film Festival

Reviews:

“Superb. The best Australian film of the year”.
Adrian Martin- The Age 

“Director Janine Hosking has innate understanding of structure and story. Remarkably restrained”
Variety 

“Deliciously outspoken and provocative”   
Sydney Morning Herald

I'M NOT DEAD YET

The Hilarious untold story of the legendary Sheik of Scrubby Creek, Chad Morgan.

 

World Premiere: ABC Television

Reviews: 

“It's Chad unleashed and uncensored, showing another side to the old trooper.”  

Andrew L. Urban- Urban Cinefile

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