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Finally got to see and hear the Imax film I scored late last year at the Melbourne premiere late March, and it was very cool hearing my music with Malcolm McDowell’s voice narrating the story! Life is Space is currently screening in the UK, Denmark, U.S.A., Canada and Australia.

I’ve also just finished a fascinating documentary titled, My Mother’s Lost Children, which will screen later this year on the BBC and hopefully get into a few film festivals along the way. Most of the scoring was for a small ensemble of woodwinds, strings and piano, with some other percussive and pad elements in the mix. It’s a film with many layers, just like an onion, and will probably bring you to tears of sympathy, frustration, or both!

The Doctor Blake Mysteries is in hybernation mode, after being axed by the ABC here in Australia; it’s top rating show, averaging 1.6 million viewers a week (high numbers for any network here in Australia)….there’s a telemovie being discussed and possibly other news as well.

Meanwhile, I’m really looking forward to commencing Jeff Daniel’s insightful new documentary about Collingwood footballer, Heritier Lumumba, for SBS and Nick & Eleanor’s (Waterbyrd Films) feature length documentary on MAMILS…should be fun!

LETHAL SEAS (the NOVA version of ACID OCEAN) is a finalist in the CHANGING PLANET category of the Science and Media Awards and Summit at Jackson Hole in the USA.

This nomination adds to our rather long list of other nominations and awards:

Winner Marine Science Award, BLUE Ocean Film Festival 2014

Finalist Best Science Journalism Award, Australian Museum Eureka Prizes 2014

Finalist Best Conservation Documentary Gold Panda Awards China 2014

Winner Environment Award, San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, 2015

Finalist Green Image Festival Japan 2015

Invited Hawaii World Ocean’s Day Festival

Silver Award Handle Climate Change Film Festival Committee Award, HCCF China, 2015

Finalist Association for International Broadcasting Award for Science programme or scientific coverage 2015 Lethal Seas (US Version),

Lethal Seas (US Version) Nominated Changing Planet Award, 2016 Science Media Awards & Summit

Acid Ocean is also a finalist in the Best Ecology and Science Category at the Green Screen Nature Festival in Eckernforde Germany to be held 14-18 September 2016.

INDIAN WEDDING RACE is a humorous and heartfelt look at the real-life journey of two 29-year-old Indian-Australians, Dalvinder and Tarun, as they each embark on a franticly amusing adventure to find love and get married before they turn 30, while juggling the pressures from their very traditional parents and cultural expectations.

Capturing every step of the way on this emotional rollercoaster, INDIAN WEDDING RACE is a rare and close-up look at the world of Australia’s Indian community as it intimately explores with humour and warmth the pressures and vulnerability that these young people face as they race to make it to the temple on time.

Indian Wedding Race is Directed by Sean Cousins and Produced by Sally Ingleton.

Documentary by filmmakers Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe has commenced it’s public release at the Nova Cinemas here in Melbourne. I wish Nick and Eleanor every success with this film and hope it reaches a much broader audience over time as it is such an important story to be told; especially to new generations who never witnessed what it was like to be gay in Australia during the 70’s & 80’s, as well as what people like John & Tim went through dying from HIV/AIDS.

Filmink; “This beautifully crafted documentary…revisits the lives of Tim Conigrave and his lover, John Caleo….Despite the tragedy that is at the heart of this documentary, it is a peculiarly uplifting and hopeful film. Operatic even…”

I’m very proud to be a part of this film.