Ross Thompson

The Chain Reaction

Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

Stranded

How long does it take before the abnormal seems normal? Death, love and family values are all up for re-negotiation in this dark and unusual black comedy about a girl trying to start a new life for herself after the loss of her mother.

What the Moon Saw

Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn into the world of the theatre, where the illusion is everything and grease-paint covers up reality. While watching a pantomime of Sinbad, Steven succumbs to the magic of the story and actually becomes the sailor on his greatest adventure ever.

Down the Wind

A young photographer Simon Jess (David Cameron) is given an assignment to shoot some backgrounds for a fashion display in the Snowy Mountains.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

A successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with his estranged wife and daughter.

The Real Thing

Al Pacino, Sean Connery and Arnold Schwarzenegger together on film for the first time. Well, almost...Ralph Easton has a few personal problems, he's desperately overweight, a social misfit, and a painful stutterer. Ralph's the kind of guy the nerds stole lunch money from. But Ralph's got a special talent - an ability to impersonate any Hollywood celebrity - the perfect cover to disguise his stutter.

Paddington Lace

Paddington is one of Sydney's oldest suburbs, which has developed somewhat along the lines of New York's Greenwich Village or London's Chelsea and has become Sydney's artist colony. This is a fully dramatised film, which captures the essence of Paddington, not only by striking visuals of the Old-Sydney architecture in the area, but by re-enacting the mood and lifestyle of some typical, bohemian inhabitants. Scripted by Joan Long. Music by Grahame Bond and Rory O'Donaghue. Starring Ross Thompson, Janne Wesley and Ron Blanchard.

Wronsky

Early feature film by Ian Pringle

The Glenmoore Job

Warren steps out of prison and straight into a self-help group whose idea of therapy is to play board games. But if he has to humour these weirdos so the cops will leave him alone while he does a 'job' for a mate on the inside, then 'roll the dice...'

Call Me Mum

Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and the white authorities took him away. But as Warren, Flo and Kate all prepare themselves for the reunion, unbeknown to them, Kate's Brisbane based parents, Keith and Dellmay, are planning a different kind of reunion.

Sam

Western set story of cowpoke Sam who spends the hottest Fourth of July in the history of Brewster County dealing with the problems and people of the area.