Ring of Endless Light
Feature Film
America’s enduring teenage novel brought to the screen by Disney. The North Carolina island mansion and grounds were designed and built on the waters’ edge of Brisbane’s Moreton Bay.
Category: Film
Child Star
Feature Film
The story of Shirley Temple’s career in Hollywood, re-creating the Fox Studio lot of the 1930’s, and many of Shirley’s famous studio sets. Over 50 period sets filmed in just 5 weeks. A delightful lesson in how apparently elaborate settings were created with elegant simplicity all those years ago.
Collision Course
Feature Film
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is a 2002 Australian comedy-adventure film based on the nature documentary series The Crocodile Hunter, starring Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin. The Irwins play themselves filming an episode of The Crocodile Hunter while trying to protect a crocodile.
Future Tense
A police drama set in 2040 investigating DNA theft, and another foray into the future. An exciting design exercise to research and use the most contemporary objects available at the time, and to find out what futurologists, and our own team thought would be happening, and how things might look in 35 years time. Shot on location and at Fox Studios in Sydney, utilizing state of the art cmc modeling techniques. A thoroughly modern exercise.
Fatal Contact
Television Feature
A Sony Pictures television feature about a worldwide bird-flu pandemic shot entirely in Auckland New Zealand. Chinese, East Coast American, Russian and Cambodian sets were created with a brilliant art department crew, many of who were fresh from working on King Kong…
K-9
Television Series
A creaky old mansion, a space-time machine, a robot dog and a mad professor – all in the future – what more could a designer hope for in a story outline? The featured sets are a three-story early 19th Century mansion, a cobblestone London street and a disused underground tunnel system. This teenage Dr Who spin-off series was mainly written by Bob Baker (Wallace and Grommitt).
Matching Jack
Feature Film
Jon’s fourth feature film collaboration with Nadia Tass and David Parker. A contemporary story about a mother’s search for a bone marrow donor to save her young son, Matching Jack was shot entirely on carefully chosen and customized locations in Melbourne during the winter of 2009.
The Eye of the Storm
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But in dying, as in living, Mrs Hunter remains a powerful force on those who surround her.
Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Patrick White, THE EYE OF THE STORM is a savage exploration of family relationships – and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, which define them.
Jon designed the flashback sequence set in the early i960’s at the Hunters’ island holiday home, and the ensuing cyclone devastation.
Adele
Short Film
In the face of an African family tradition imposed on her in Australia, fourteen-year-old Adele is torn between high school and the home where she is a wife in an arranged marriage, and a mother-to-be.
Adele is a courageously told tale about the taboo subject of child marriage in Australia within the African community, winning multiple awards internationally.
