Created by Tig Terera, Swift Street is a fresh, gritty, and humorous take on a crime-family drama, starring Tanzyn Crawford and Cliff Curtis, with Keiynan Lonsdale, Bernie Van Tiel, Alfred Chuol and Eliza Matengu.

When street-smart 21-year-old Elsie discovers her hustler father Robert is being hunted down by an unhinged crime boss over a bad debt, she decides to help him, sparking the beginnings of a reconciliation and a dubious reign as partners in crime.

The question is, will helping Robert bring about Elsie’s downfall or will they find a way to save each other?

Executive Producers Lois Randall and Cliff Curtis | Producers Lois Randall and Ivy Mak | Directors Tig Terera and Nicholas Verso | Writers Tig Terera, Sam Carroll, Briar Grace Smith and Nicole Reddy | Script Producer Sam Carroll | DOP Sherwin Akbarzadeh

Swift Street had its world premiere in competition at Canneseries 2024 and is now screening on SBS and SBS on Demand.

A Magpie Pictures production developed and produced in association with Special Broadcasting Service Corporation, with principal production funding from Screen Australia, financed with the assistance of Screen NSW, produced with the assistance of Vic Screen and distributed by Fifth Season, with early development supported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

13 x 30 minute television drama series - a rich and humorous coming of age story.

Winner, Screen Producers Australia Awards, Children’s Series Production of the Year, 2018

Winner, First Nations Media Awards, Best Drama, 2018

Winner, Australian Directors Guild Award, Best Direction in Children’s Television, 2019

Nominated, UNESCO Special Prize, Prix Jeunesse International Awards, Munich 2018

Official Selection, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, USA, 2018

Nominated, AACTA Awards, Best Children’s Program, 2018

Nominated, Logie Award, Most Outstanding Children’s Program, 2018

Adapted from the award winning novel by Sue McPherson

Executive Producer (Magpie Pictures) - Lois Randall

Producers – Lois Randall and Dena Curtis

Story Producer - Sam Carroll

Directors - Lynn-Maree Danzey, Nicholas Verso, Beck Cole

Writers – Sue McPherson, Briar Grace Smith, Sam Carroll, Kodie Bedford, Danielle MacLean, Gina Roncoli, Giula Sandler, Tristan Michael Savage, David Hannam.

13 x 30 minute television series for 8 - 12 year old audiences.

Fuzzy Mac’s life is turned upside down on her 13th birthday, when she discovers she can communicate with spirits! It’s hard enough navigating the highs and lows of becoming a teenager while living with your eccentric Nan and Pop. Throw in a host of needy spirits, mischievous totems and spooky ancestors, and you have a recipe for a whole bunch of trouble! Combining whimsy, adventure, comedy and drama, the series takes audiences on an emotional roller coaster ride, following Fuzzy, as she learns to accept her gift and understand the meaning of ‘grace’.

Developed with support from NITV, ABC, ACTF, Screen Australia, Screen Queensland and Screen NSW. Commissioned by NITV and ABC Me with a Disney Channel presale (Australia and NZ), distribution advance from 9Story Media Group (International) and investment from Screen Australia, NITV, ABC, Screen Queensland and Cutting Edge.

A Magpie Pictures Production.

Nan, of Australian Aboriginal and Irish descent, keeps a photo album of dead family members. Younger sister Min believes this morbid European tradition is culturally inappropriate.

Told with warmth and humour, this short film tackles cultural taboos.

A 12 minute short drama written by Sue McPherson, based on characters from her award winning novel “Grace Beside Me”.

Producer: Lois Randall
Director: Dena Curtis

Cast: Nan: Noeleen Shearer; Aunty Min: Pamela Young; Fuzzy: Amba-Rose Atkinson; and Dougal the dog as Trouble.

Commissioned by ABC TV.

Selected for Flickerfest 2016 and toured nationally with Best of Australian Shorts program. International premiere - ImagineNATIVE Toronto 2016, official selection Winda Film Festival Sydney, St Kilda, Noosa and Dungog Film Festivals. Semi Finalist Los Angeles CineFest.

Developed through The Exchange program of Screen Australia’s Indigenous department, completed July 2015.

A Magpie Pictures production.

A lonely jazz singer and a troubled black soldier find solace in an underground speak easy, where the rules of the outside world don’t apply.

Short Film, Premiere Sydney Film Festival 2017, International Premiere ImagineNATIVE Toronto 2017, selected for Flickerfest 2018 Best of Australian Shorts program.

Writer: Kodie Bedford,  Director: Bjorn Stewart

Producers: Lois Randall and Kodie Bedford

Developed through the Pitch Short Blacks program of Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department. Commissioned by ABC TV.

A Magpie Pictures Production

An Every Cloud Production
First broadcast ABC TV 1 April – May 2014, streaming on Netflix USA and Canada till August 2019.

Miniseries of the Year, 2014 Screen Producers Australia Awards

Official Selection, Series Mania TV festival, Paris, 2014

Official Selection, and Best Actor nomination for Kelton Pell, International Gold Panda Awards, Sichuan TV Festival China, 2015

“The Gods of Wheat Street” is a 6 x 1 hour television drama series that transports the audience into the world, hearts and humour of the Freeburns, a modern Aboriginal family of local legends. Each episode spans a few hectic days with a touch of magic and enough deadpan humour to help our characters rise above obstacles that would bring mere mortals to their knees - and get on with the important matters of love, family and football. 

Creator/Writer/Co-producer: Jon Bell
Producer: Lois Randall
Directors: Catriona McKenzie, Adrian Russell Wills, Wayne Blair
Executive Producers: Fiona Eagger, Deb Cox, Sally Riley and Erica Glynn.

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