Created and written by Elliot Vella, Gretel Vella and Timothy Walker, and directed by Christiaan Van Vuuren, this very Australian comedy is not your typical cliché Christmas movie.
In Adele Vuko’s Christmas Ransom, Matt Okine stars as the struggling owner of beloved toy store Harrington and Sons, who is taken for ransom when a pair of bumbling criminals hijack the store.
Stan Original film 'A Christmas Ransom' may invite comparisons to the streamer's last festive collaboration with Every Cloud Productions, Christiaan Van Vuuren's 2020 comedy 'A Sunburnt Christmas', but a lot has changed behind the scenes in the past two years.
Within just six short years of graduating NIDA’s MFA Writing for Performance course, Gretel Vella has been nominated for an AWGIE, written and co-produced an international series for Hulu, and served as showrunner on her own series.
Writer Keir Wilkins will have his work featured across Netflix and Stan this year, having contributed to the second season of 'Surviving Summer' and upcoming dark comedy 'Totally Completely Fine'.
Stan is again getting into the festive spirit, starting production on a new holiday-themed original film starring Matt Okine, Miranda Tapsell and Ed Oxenbould.
A spin-off of 'High Maintenance', starring Yael Stone, and a comedic crime series from Jungle Entertainment are among the 21 projects that will share in more than $600,000 in story development funding from Screen Australia.
Nearly 30 projects will share in $975,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia, including a television series inspired by the 1999 film 'Two Hands' from director Gregor Jordan, and a family feature film from the producers of 'Bluey'.