Dead Easy

Feature Film
Before Two Hands there was Dead Easy. Story and performances aside, the grimy New York-esque aesthetic seething through this Kings Cross underbelly-tickler is palpable.

Frog Dreaming

Feature Film
One of the better remembered ‘American kid down under’ films from the heyday of the 10BA. Frog Dreaming (aka The Quest and The Go-Kids) is a children’s adventure, filmed around an abandoned quarry on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Mr Reliable

Feature Film
A small settlement of 3 houses and gardens was built in the shadow of an old power station on the Brisbane River. These modest houses were also the interior sets for the film; overlooking a large paddock where later a massive crowd of spectators was to gather and camp out to watch a house and family under siege. Set in 1968 and based on a true Australian yarn.

Paperback Hero

Feature Film
Hugh Jackman’s first feature film was mostly shot in Nindigully, 8 hours west of Brisbane. The location consisted of a pub and a lot of red dirt until The Boomerang Cafe was designed and built as a working concern for the film. Only the giant steel rooftop boomerangs remain now.

Amy

Feature Film
Amy has won many awards overseas for the story’s compassionate yet humorous study of the deaf and mute little heroine. The city street was designed and built amongst existing buildings at a disused armaments factory in Melbourne, thus giving total control of people and traffic in the precinct. The featured houses were also the interior sets, enabling freedom of movement and choreography for camera.