Tony Ayres is a highly admired writer and director, whose work as ‘showrunner’ on programs such as ‘The Slap’ (2011), adapted from the novel by Christos Tsiolkas, ‘Bogan Pride’ (2008) starring Rebel Wilson, ‘Nowhere Boys’ (2014) and ‘Glitch’ (2015), directed by fellow VCA alumnus Emma Freeman, have put Ayres at the centre of the Australian screen industry and made him one its most influential leaders. He is a founding partner of Matchbox Pictures.
Total trailers found: 17
11 April 2009
The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student persecuted by the government but the Department of Immigration dispute his identity.
22 February 2024
When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile hermit who was the last person to see his friend alive.
16 May 2004
After a near-death experience, five boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott.
28 October 1999
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live.
20 June 1998
Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".
01 September 1998
The Violent Earth is a 1998 French-Australian mini series set in New Caledonia from 1888 to 1977.
26 September 2002
Friends and family gather around the death bed of Gavin, where they assist in the dying man's suicide.
09 February 2007
A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.
25 September 2013
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton.
23 June 1999
Based on photographer William Yang's one man stage show, "Sadness" chronicles two diverging narratives through the use of slide photography, oral history and stylised recreation.
13 March 2001
A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia.
01 October 1998
An older woman complains about the excessive traffic in a public men's room across the street.
01 January 2016
A year after the boys crossed dimensions, discovered magic and battled the restoring demon, they are back home in Bremin and are struggling with everyday teenage life.
30 August 2001
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia.
22 March 1997
A filmmaker makes a documentary about a photographer. David Edwards has been taking photographs of naked men for the past 11 years.
24 September 2015
Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s is the story of Sparra Farrell, a very private man in his twenties who is trying to make a life for himself in a new city.
31 October 1985
Justin, a young gay man is on a break from film school, struggling to come to terms with his father’s violent opposition to his sexual orientation.
