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A selection of award winning projects.
Odesza - Higher Ground
Music Video
A vibrant journey following three separate women linked through technology, music, and mystery.
With its 80's inspired wardrobe, production and Easter eggs for the ODESZA faithful (including nods to the duo's icosahedron logo sprinkled throughout), the video paints a cinematic narrative of three women's surroundings slowly blurring together through old-school CRT TVs, flickering lamps and decor, evoking a spectacle of magical realism with a hint of "Stranger Things".
"My vision for Higher Ground was to create a cinematic atmospheric piece about connection and love with a hypnotic quality to it", says director Nima Nabili Rad. "For me, the science fiction films of the 80's like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner, always had light as an organic, living, breathing part of the film. Taking inspiration from that, the video was made with the light not only being part of the visual eye candy but as a central character itself. It was fun being the conductor of a symphony of light for a couple of nights!"
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VIDEO: ODESZA Release HIGHER GROUND (Feat. Naomi Wild) Music Video
By: Macon Prickett
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Directed by: Nima Nabili Rad
Starring: Lorelle Crawford, Alana Priest, Fika Tamiru
Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Danger 5 - Narrative Series (S01)
Television Series
It’s one of the best post-modern sendups of WWII comic books, Sean Connery-era James Bond spy flicks, badly dubbed Japanese monster movies, shoddy Saturday morning puppet shows, ‘60s swinger cocktail parties, and above all, lurid pulp magazine covers with naked damsels in distress menaced by Nazis and giant mythical creatures. It’s a futile endeavor to contextualize Danger 5 with similar films and television shows – there are shades of Team America, Archer, Thunderbirds, The Spoils of Babylon, Austin Powers, and Land of the Lost throughout its debut season – but none of these projects consolidate as many nerdy film and retro comic book stylings together like Danger 5. Its cheesy tone and low-budget exploitation feel make a deceptively haphazard front for what is actually a beautifully cohesive kind of slam-bang creativity, one that proudly wears its cheapness on its sleeve while consistently delivering, time and again, a uniquely warped revisionist history and deadpan humor throughout its six-episode debut season.
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Why You Should Be Watching the Wonderfully Bizarre ‘Danger 5’
By Megh Wright
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Created by: Dario Russo & David Ashby
Starring: David Ashby, Sean James Murphy, Natasa Ristic, Amanda Simons, Aldo Mignone & Carmine Russo
Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Lemon Tree Passage
Feature Film
Every country in the world has its own set of myths and urban legends, and Australia is no different. There is a stretch of road in rural New South Wales, Australia, called Lemon Tree Passage Road, where teenagers race in an effort to see the Lemon Tree passage ghost. This road is the focus of Lemon Tree Passage, the latest horror movie by Thirteen Disciples. Written by Erica Brien (Blind 2013), and director David Campbell (Afternoons with Max Marshall 2012, Blind 2013) making his full-length debut, Lemon Tree Passage is predominately filmed around South Australia. With most of the events take place at night time, the cinematography by Sam King (Italian Spiderman 2007, Collision 2011) certainly maximizes the creepiness on a lonely road. Australian viewers may recognize lead actor Tim Phillips (The Cheerleader Diaries), along with many other cast members, as characters from the series Neighbours. With Phillips (known as Daniel on Neighbours) playing the role of Geordie and starring Jessica Tovey (Tracks 2013, Wonderland 2013) as Maya, Lemon Tree Passage is another addition to the growing list of innovative Horror films coming out of Australia.
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Directed by: David Campbell
Starring: Jessica Tovey, Nicholas Gunn, Tim Phillipps and Pippa Black
Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Peta & The Wolves - Equal Measure
Music Video
Peta and the Wolves have assembled some heavyweight creative talent for the ‘Equal Measure’ video, enlisting ARIA Award winning Art Director, Elisa Mercurio for directorial duties and fashion stylist Cimon Vozzo. The track drops the darkness of earlier songs and instead building to a plaintive cry, “You were mine and I was yours”. The destructive nature of a relationship is portrayed by two dancers, their bodies contorting, rising and falling to depict the fragility of a relationship in which one person’s love is not fully reciprocated and they have to ask, “If it was my last day would you finally start to listen?”
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FIB Exclusive: Peta and the Wolves ‘Equal Measure’ Video Premiere
Lucy Li
Directed by: Elisa Mercurio
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Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Danger 5 - Narrative Series (S02)
Television Series
The second season updates the story to the 1980s, and re-shapes the world around the Danger 5 team. Gone are World War II-era spy plots, though Adolf Hitler remains as the show's recurring villain. In its place is delicious pastiche of '80s action and horror movies.
Russo describes it as a "weird bastard child of the first season, where we've gutted the characters out and thrown them into a new context which is pretty much solely informed by '80s cinema. It doesn't have the war behind it as a framework. It's a patchwork of movie tropes and elements bundled into a weird, invented universe."
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Danger 5 comedy: hilarious spoof of movie cliches - Michael Idato
Created by: Dario Russo & David Ashby
Starring: David Ashby, Sean James Murphy, Natasa Ristic, Elizabeth Hay, Pacharo Mzembe & Carmine Russo
Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Open up with Andre Agassi - Open Hand
Branded Content
Andre Agassi decided to tell his story in a series of five short films for Jacob’s Creek wines. They were created to support the Jacob’s Creek global Grand Slam and tennis sponsorships.
They revealed the true character of tennis and its stars and mirrored the true character of their wines. Social media went crazy and the films quickly started trending all over the world.
All five films were watched by 27% of Australians at least twice. Total media cost $0. Qantas then wanted the film series for every flight, on every plane. Total media cost $0. And ESPN then broadcast them across Asia reaching 541 million people. Total media cost $0.
And 70% of the audience associated the films with Jacob’s Creek. Total media value: $4,200,000 in just three weeks.
Return on investment for Jacob’s Creek: 748% Total media cost $0.
After being broadcast in the US and the UK, the films went on to win awards at Cannes and the One Show Entertainment awards.
Director : Steve Callen
Starring: Andre Agassi
Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Mitsubishi Outlander - Love That Car
TV Commercial
Director : Paul Stratton
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Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Deakin University - Worldly
TV Commercial
Director : Steve Callen
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Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A
Royal Adelaide Hospital - Launch Commercial
TV Commercial
Director : Jody Dwyer
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Audio language: English
Subtitles language: N/A