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CORAL REKINDLING VENUS

www.coralrekindlingvenus.com

Planned to culminate with the next Transit of Venus on 5 June 2012, Coral Rekindling Venus is an innovative cross platform project including a full dome work for planetariums, an interactive website, and an augmented reality application that explores responses or coral reef systems attempting to deal with the stresses of climate change.

*supported through Documentary Development, the All Media program and Feature production investment

Big Stories, Small towns

www.bigstories.com.au

An evolving multiplatform documentary project first launched in 2008. Big Stories, Small Towns features collaborations between small town communities and filmmakers in residence. The project is shaped through extensive local consultation and participation to create stories made by both filmmakers and community members - full of love, humour, family and belonging.

*supported through the Documentary Development program

Danger 5

www.sbs.com.au/danger5

Set in a bizarre, 1960s inspired version of World War II, action comedy series Danger 5 follows a team of five spies on a mission to kill Adolf Hitler. Danger 5 is the finest group of special operatives the Allies have to offer: Jackson from the USA, Tucker from Australia, IIsa from Russia, Claire from Britain and Pierre from Europe. In each episode Danger 5 unravels another of Hitler's diabolical schemes as they travel across a myriad of exotic locations.

ALTERNATOR

www.abc.net.au/abc3/games/alternator

Alternator is a thrilling racing game around a climate-ravaged Australia that contains an educational message about sustainable energy. It was funded through the Serious Games Initiative, a partnership between Screen Australia and ABC TV. The team included multi-award winning writer and director Bryan Moses (AFI-winning Double the Fist), multi-platform producer Dean Tuttle and game stimulations expert John Welsh.

*supported through ABC TV and Screen Australia's Serious Game Initiative

little space heroes

www.littlespaceheroes.com

Little Space Heroes is an ambitious virtual world for kids that provides a safe and fun story driven experience. Players get to create their own space cadet, and explore a universe full of fun and adventure. It comes from Sydney-based Bubble Gum Interactive, who have launched a beta-version that they invite big and little kids to come and play.

*supported through the Innovation program

WARCO

Warco is a prototype for a game in which players take on the role of a war correspondent trying to shoot reportage and expose the truth in hazardous territory. Using the First Person Shooter game mechanic, it seeks to offer a more intelligent, emotional and complex gaming experience. It comes from a multi-disciplinary team comprising of filmmaker Robert Connolly (Balibo), veteran journalist and news producer Tony Maniaty and Morgan Jaffit, one of Australia's leading game developers. They have released a video walkthrough of the demo on YouTube.

*supported through the Innovation program

CLUB DIRTGIRLWORLD

www.clubdirtgirlworld.com

Club dirtgirlworld is a new interactive site featuring the animated characters from the hugely successful series created by Australia's Cate McQuillen. The site seeks to galvanise kids to connect with the environmental themes of the show, offering them a virtual forest in which to share and listen to thoughts and opinions, and highlighting strategies for sustainable living in a fun, immersive way.

*supported through the Innovation program

beachtown

playnow.beachtowngame.com

Beachtown is a Facebook social game in which you get to hang out on your own virtual beach, invite friends, go surfing and get happy. Initially launched in early 2011, this new release is an enhanced version of the game with more features and deeper game play. Beachtown was devised and created by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Steve Pasvolsky with consultant game legend Noah Falstein.

*supported through the Innovation program

gOA HIPPY TRIBE

www.facebook.com/goahippytribe

Goa Hippy Tribe, an online social media documentary about a hippy reunion in Goa, made by filmmaker Darius Devas and a vibrant community of online contributors; producers were Freehand, with broadcaster SBS attached. The project was selected for INPUT 2011.

*supported through the Innovation program

The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch

www.abc.net.au/tv/phillipafinch/

that girl there is phillipa finch...
only now she is dead. well, not really dead, just numb, torpid, stupified...
join phillipa on her journey to find her way back to the land of the emotionally fulfilled...

The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch is an immersive multiplatform animated experience about love, beauty and hope.

*supported through the Innovation program

Immigration Nation

www.sbs.com.au/immigrationnation/
interactive

Interactive documentary Immigration Nation Interactive from digital outfit Chocolate Liberation Front was launched via the SBS portal and was subsequently named a Webby Honoree, the US digital equivalent of the Oscars®. This was co-funded with Screen Australia's National Documentary Program.

*supported through the Innovation program

JOKES ON YOU

www.jokesonyou.tv

The Moonshine Agency completed and launched Jokes on You, a comedic website and smart phone app to tailor-make your own comedy routine.

*supported through the Innovation program

Re-Enchantment

www.abc.net.au/tv/re-enchantment

An interactive broadband documentary project exploring why fairy stories continue to enchant, entertain, fascinate and horrify contemporary adult audiences. The rich media environment offers an extremely immersive experience to explore fairy tales. Each story invites you to navigate the historical, social, cultural and psychological layers embedded in the traditional tales, to discover their meaning for adults today. Also now screening on TV.

*supported through the Innovation program

Smash Cut

www.smashcut.com

Filmmaker Gregor Jordan (Two Hands, Ned Kelly) teamed up with The Project Factory's Guy Gadney for Smash Cut, an online mash-up portal for budding filmmakers and artists to flex their creative muscle.

*supported through the Innovation program

STAY TUNED

http://staytuned.abc.net.au/

Producer Lisa Gray of The Feds, working in collaboration with digital agency Visual Jazz, was supported to make multiplatform elements of the interactive youth music show Stay Tuned. The series has since gone live on ABC3 and ABC online to critical acclaim.

*supported through the Innovation program