MOCKBUSTER

Feature Documentary: In Production
Director: Anthony Frith
Producers: Sandy Cameron, David Elliot-Jones & Naomi Ball

The notorious US production company behind the low-budget shark saga SHARKNADO has agreed to let Anthony, whose once promising film career has since dwindled into a soulless corporate grind, direct a mockbuster in Australia. With a budget of $100,000 and just six days to shoot, Anthony must deliver his debut feature film in a challenge that will push him and his ragtag crew to their limits.

In co-production with Mostly True Media

Principal production funding from Screen Australia, in association with South Australian Film Corporation, Adelaide Film Festival, Giant Pictures and VicScreen.

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE FOOD

Feature Documentary: In Development
Director: Jason Christou
Producers: Naomi Ball & David Elliot-Jones

Twenty-five years ago filmmaker Jason Christou lost himself to an eating disorder, but when the arrival of his son forces him to confront ideas around his own body image, he resolves to reckon with his past to ensure his son doesn’t suffer the same fate. In the process he finds he’s not alone, unearthing a silent generation of male survivors.

Developed with support from Screen Australia, Australian Film, TV and Radio School and Shark Island Foundation.

Find Your Voice (WT)

Feature Documentary: In Development
Director: Lachlan McLeod
Producers: Naomi Ball & David Elliot-Jones

The largest all abilities choir in the world are preparing for their most ambitious act to date: An original concert accompanied by Australia’s leading orchestra. The choir is ready to be heard, but is the world ready to listen?

Developed with support from Screen Australia and VicScreen.

CLEAN

(2022) : Feature documentary
Director: Lachlan McLeod
Producers: David Elliot-Jones & Charlotte Wheaton

When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her birth mother. Meanwhile, the workers approach this difficult work with camaraderie and humour, bringing hope to their clients despite carrying trauma of their own.

In co-production with GoodThing Productions.

Winner, Best Documentary (One-off), Asian Academy Creative Awards, 2023
Nominated Best Documentary at the 2022 AACTA Awards
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (Feature Documentary Competition) at SXSW 2022
Selected as the Closing Night Film at Melbourne International Film Festival 2022

WHO I AM

(2022) : Short documentary
Director: Naomi Ball
Producers: David Elliot-Jones & Cadance Bell

A transgender teen on the spectrum learns to be himself and find the support he needs with the help of his original animated characters, The Fallens.

A recipient of the 2020 Doc Edge Rei Foundation Film Fund, with principal production funds from Screen Australia and support from VicScreen.

SEARCHING FOR THE TASSIE TIGER

Vice (2021): Short documentary
Director: Naomi Ball
Producer: David Elliot-Jones

New evidence and a growing civilian movement are challenging the long-held belief that Tasmanian tigers are extinct. A short doc for VICE’s Australiana strand.

Winner of the AIDC 2020 Screen Australia and VICE Pitch Australiana competition.

HAKAMADA

Al Jazeera (2020): Feature documentary
Director: Louis Dai
Producer: Katy Roberts

When conviction is guaranteed, justice is lost.

Hakamada: The Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate In The World reveals the human cost of Japan’s 99.9% incrimination rate, through the plight of Iwao Hakamada and sister Hideko’s 47-year battle to save him from execution.

BIG IN JAPAN

Amazon Prime (2018): Feature documentary
Director: Lachlan Mcleod
Producer: David Elliot-Jones

What is fame? Why do we want it? And what does it take for an ordinary person to get it?

After hearing about the huge demand for foreign talents in Japan, three Aussie filmmakers ship their lives and girlfriends to Tokyo on an outrageous DIY mission to make ‘ordinary’ Dave famous.

Premiered at DocEdge Festival (2018) and featured on Qantas.

CONVENIENT EDUCATION

SBS (2012): Online interactive/broadcast documentary
Co-directors: Lachlan Mcleod, David Elliot-Jones & Louis Dai
Producer: David Elliot-Jones

A multi-perspective story exploring the struggles of Australia’s student-migrants amid the 2008-10 crisis in international education.

Produced as an online-interactive documentary for SBS Online and later broadcast on SBS 2.

GUARDIANS OF THE RIVER

In Production
Directors: Lachlan McLeod & Matasila Freshwater
Producers: David Elliot-Jones, Kerry Warkia, Maria Tanner & Emmanuel Peni

When a proposed gold-copper mine threatens to destroy one of Papua New Guinea’s last remaining freshwater sanctuaries, the 1,126km Sepik River, Indigenous activist Manu Peni launches an urgent mission that takes him to the haus tambaran—ancient spirit houses and places of governance—of key villages along the Sepik.

In co-production with Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions.

Principal production funding from Screen Australia, in association with VicScreen, The Post Lounge and Pacific Islanders in Communications.