projects

// sci-fi psychological drama
A synthetic care companion assigned to an elderly man with dementia begins to experience impossible memories of her own - forcing her to choose between the life she was programmed to protect and the self she’s starting to become.
phase: pre-production
writer: indiana kwong
producer: studio nocturnal

// dystopian thriller
When society unravels under climate catastrophe, our characters’ paths unfold in parallel - each must navigate a brutal new order of heat, ash storms, tribal warfare and anarchy in the fight not just to survive, but to find family, community and a place to belong.
email indiana@studionocturnal.com for a link to the pilot episode
phase: pilot, to market
writer: indiana kwong
producer: studio nocturnal

// cosmic outback drama
Downtrodden and depressed, a struggling musician walks into the desert and has a life-changing encounter.
phase: festival
writer: declan arrighi
director: declan arrighi
producer: indiana kwong, michael gosden, declan arrighi

// surreal black comedy
With the apocalypse looming and humanity doomed, an ambitious young mortal who is desperate to survive the end, cons her way into a gathering of elder gods and must navigate their machinations in order to find a way to escape with them into the next world.
phase: development (supported by Screen Australia)
writer: david burrowes
producer: indiana kwong, patrick cullen, joel hagen, david burrowes, [studio nocturnal]
executive producer: janelle landers

// one-shot mystery horror
An ambitious theatre director’s plan to ritually sacrifice her cast on opening night is thrown into turmoil when her estranged sister re-enters her life and threatens to expose her.
phase: development
writer: david burrowes
producer: indiana kwong, patrick cullen, david burrowes, joel hagen [studio nocturnal]

// australian crime gothic
After botching their first collection of the day, small-time debt collectors and best friends, Pretty Boy and Chip, are suddenly thrust into a dangerous and bizarre 48 hour odyssey through Sydney's unforgiving criminal underworld.
As the ever escalating Dominoes of fate start to fall and they’re offered a life changing opportunity, the duo are forced to confront their rapidly diverging futures together, their criminal heritage and the repercussions of a life of crime in a city built on it.
phase: post production
writer: tel benjamin
director: tel benjamin
producer: david burrowes, tel benjamin
production manager: indiana kwong

// crime comedy
Max’s road trip to Melbourne and reconciliation with his estranged father is hijacked by three peculiar Greeks who are secretly on the run from the law.
phase: development (supported by Screen Australia, Screen NSW)
writer: damien strouthos
director: peter andrikidis
producer: indiana kwong

8×30m // chinese-australian coming of age
After the death of her mother, twenty-something Zoe moves in with her estranged Chinese grandmother above their Traditional Chinese Medicine store. Now Zoe is confronted with a culture that seems foreign to her, traditional expectations she is unable to meet and must learn to balance both sides of her identity.
phase: development
writer: indiana kwong
producer: indiana kwong, patrick cullen, david burrowes, joel hagen

// psychological horror
An inexplicable dread haunts Evette’s dreams. A certainty that something is gravely wrong lingers long into her days. If she could only keep it all together. If she could just ensure everything would remain perfect. Then it would all be okay. Then she wouldn’t have to leave. But the roaches are creeping in the shadows, crawling up the walls. A pestilence poisoning Evette’s home, threatening to consume all. A symptom of the more insidious danger that lies within. Lurking just out of sight. And Evette cannot escape until she draws the beast into the light, and fights it head-on.
phase: complete
writer: david burrowes
director: david burrowes
producer: indiana kwong, patrick cullen, joel hagen, emma diaz