Travelling from his home in “the LA”, travel writer Jesse Archer arrives in Casino, NSW in search of their elusive and mysterious “Beef Week Queens”. First stop is a visit to contestant number one, Tiarra, whose hobbies include wood chopping and cross-cut sawing. Tiarra puts Jesse through a work-out on the logs, but she tells him its nothing compared to what her step-dad and inspiration, James, is facing.
Two twisted housemates lure an unbalanced woman into a sexual trap, with murderous results.
IF Magazine #184 will take a comprehensive look at screen production in New South Wales.
A complex drama set in the world of a professional theatre company, following Lizzie, a working theatre actor playing Lady Macduff in a bold and visceral production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. When the play’s internationally successful auteur director, Helmut, pushes the cast beyond their limits, Lizzie is thrown into a dark and unacceptable world of onstage violence and brutality, causing her to question a life of commitment and sacrifice to her calling. It is a compelling, unsettling and triumphant examination of what it means to be a woman in a world that celebrates male genius.
WAYNE is the near improbable true story of the ‘larrikin kid’ from Wollongong, Wayne Gardner. With girlfriend Donna Forbes never far from his side, Wayne’s remarkable journey takes him from a 5-dollar dirt bike to the pinnacle of his sport. In 1987 Wayne becomes the first Australian to win the World Motorcycle Grand Prix, and with it, the hearts of all Australians.
A story of family and estrangement set amid the alien landscape of Australia’s opal mines.
From the Beatles to the Backstreet Boys, One Direction to Take That, three generations of zealous boyband fans reflect on the objects of their obsessions and explore how the thrills, fantasies and roller-coaster emotions of fandom have changed and challenged their lives.
For three years, Paddo has led the charge at the Copperheads Motorcycle Club while gang president Knuck serves time. He’s on the cusp of taking the crew in a new direction, but his just-released leader isn’t keen on change. Then Paddo’s brother begins stirring up trouble with a rival club head, jeopardising everyone’s future.