The Jinja Assassin

The Jinja Assassin

Synopsis

Alex Roberts (The Jinja Assassin) is a high school drama teacher by day and the second-best air guitarist in the world by night. We follow Alex as he travels from his hometown of Perth all the way to Oulu in Finland to compete in the 2018 Air Guitar World Championships. Will Alex have what it takes to be number one?

Credits

Directors: Will Faulkner, Nathan Keene and Matt Henry

Writers: Will Faulkner & Nathan Keene

Producers: Matt Henry, Will Faulkner, Nathan Keene, Rem Bruijn

Co-Producer: Angelina Mavrick

Key Cast: Alex Roberts

DP: Nathan Keene & Will Faulkner

Signet | HD | Colour | 15 minutes

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Disarm

Disarm

2010

Synopsis

Two men meet online for a hook‐up, but after an initial confrontation, they fall into conversation and have something they did not expect: a connection.

Credits

Director: Nathan Keene

Writer: Will Faulkner & Nathan Keene

Producer: Will Faulkner

Key Cast: Taris Tyler and David Ryan Kinsman

DP: Stephen McCallum

Story One | HD | Colour | 17 minutes

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Postie

Postie

2003

Synopsis

In the early 1800’s, a young Wongkatha girl reluctantly leaves her mother and crosses the Australian desert with her betrothed husband from another tribe. Along the way she encounters a white man for the first time, a postman lost in the desert. She finds solace in the comfort of one of his letters that she believes is a magical totem.

 

Credits

Director: Nathan Keene

Writer: Nathan Keene & Lynda Doulas

Producer: Nat Eaton

Key Cast: Rebecca Jennings, Jason Rogers, Stan Stafford, Stella Wicker

DP: Sinèad Gilna

Silver Signature Productions | 16mm Film | Colour | 15 minutes

The Perfect Cure

A Perfect Cure

2004

Synopsis

In the 1970’s, a conservative mother finds a gay pornographic magazine under her teenage son’s bed. She decides to cure him by taking him on a ‘perfect’ holiday to Rottnest Island.

 

Credits

Director & Writer: Nathan Keene

Producer: Nathan Keene, Anya Watroba & Nat Eaton

Key Cast: Kirk Goodsell, Janet Pettigrew

DP: Sinèad Gilna

Silver Signature Productions | 16mm Film | Colour | 34 minutes

Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy

2006

Synopsis

A young woman, embroiled in her father’s organised crime organisation, devises a strategy to permanently exit her corrupt family forever.

 

Credits

Director: Sam Barrett

Writer: Simon Cruthers

Producers: Nathan Keene & Anya Watroba and Simon Cruthers

Key Cast: Sarah Lawrence, Martin Williams, James Helm, George Shevtsov

DP: Torstein Dyrting

Silver Signature Productions | HD | Colour | 20 minutes

At Play

At Play

2006

Synopsis

While playing deep in the forest, a young boy finds a gun on a dumped body. His new power brings unforgivable consequences to a couple of bullies he encounters.

 

Credits

Director & Writer: Zak Hilditch

Producer: Nathan Keene & Anya Watroba

Key Cast: Nathan Coenen, Tom Stoker, Tim Watts

DP: Alex McPhee ACS

Silver Signature Productions | 16mm Film | Colour | 11 minutes

Back to the Bay

Back to the Bay

2009

Synopsis

This is the true story of Leon Deschamps, a simple man from Shark Bay, Western Australia, who sets off on the adventure of his life: to resurrect a sunken pirate ship from the bottom of Dili Harbour in East Timor.

 

Credits

Writer & Directors: Nathan Keene & TJ Cream

Producer: TJ Cream, Warwick Hill, Nathan Keene & Will Faulkner

Editor: Will Faulkner

HD | Colour | 52 minutes

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Wee War

Weewar

2006

Synopsis

The dramatised story of Weewar, the first Nyungar man to be tried under white law in the WA colony in 1840. Weewar was a Nyungar warrior who was judged by English Law for a ‘payback’ that was delivered to another Aboriginal person, under traditional law.

 Produced by Kulbardi Productions, Black Russian Productions and Waugal Aboriginal Corporation. Developed and produced with the assistance of the Film & Television Institute (WA), ScreenWest, Lotterywest, ABC Television, Murdoch University, Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre.

Credits

Director: Glen Stasiuk

Writer: Karrie-Anne Kearing

Producer: Naomi Ashcroft

Key Cast: Trevor Jamieson

DP: Rob Bygott

SD | Colour | 7 minutes

Clouds

Clouds

2008

Synopsis

A young boy becomes lost in the forest and uses his imagination to escape.

 

Credits

Director & Writer: Will Faulkner

Producer: Annabelle Fouchard

Key Cast: Nathan Coenen, Emily Allen-Rose, Nathan Bunney

DOP: Steve Fleming

Black Lantern Films | SD | Colour | 8 minutes

Jackhammer

Jackhammer

2012

Synopsis

A young law student, Nicole, has her life disrupted when a mysterious man begins to use a jackhammer in her neighbouring apartment. Nicole is at a loss for what to do, the man is legally allowed to drill from 7:00 am, but Nicole works night shifts and must sleep in the mornings. Her attempts to ask the man to drill later are met with resistance. With her major exam fast approaching and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win an internship with top law firm Morgan and Crowne at risk, Nicole decides to take the law into her own hands.

Credits

Director: Nathan Keene

Writers: Will Faulkner & Nathan Keene

Producer: Will Faulkner

Key Cast: Anna Head, Rose McKenna, Peter Cheng, Trushna Mahisuri, Alex Malone

DOP: Steve Fleming

HD | Colour | 20 minutes

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