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1 form y separately published work icon Invisible Boys Nicholas Verso , Holden Sheppard , Enoch Mailangi , Allan Clarke , Declan Greene , Western Australia : Feisty Dame Productions , 2024 26992377 2024 series - publisher film/TV
1 1 form y separately published work icon Swift Street Tig Terera , Sam Carroll , Briar Grace-Smith , Nicole Reddy , ( dir. Tig Terera et. al. )agent Melbourne : Magpie Pictures SBS , 2024 25822026 2024 series - publisher film/TV crime Twenty-one-year old Elsie teams up with her old-school hustler father to try and get him out of debt to a merciless crime boss, but they find themselves committed to more and more serious crimes.
1 form y separately published work icon I Don't Want to Grow Up Nicholas Verso , ( dir. Nicholas Verso ) Australia : Werner Film Productions , 2023 27448262 2023 single work film/TV
1 1 form y separately published work icon Crazy Fun Park Nicholas Verso , Magda Wozniak , Craig Irvin , Enoch Mailangi , 'Fury' , ( dir. Nicholas Verso et. al. )agent Australia : Werner Film Productions Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2022 10724339 2022 single work film/TV horror

'Crazy Fun Park is a hair-raising coming of age tale following best friends Chester and Mapplethorpe, a duo so inseparable, not even death can pull them apart. After Mapplethorpe tragically dies in the town’s abandoned Crazy Fun Park, Chester discovers that his friend is now “living” with the other undead Fun Kids who also met their end at the park. With no adults, free rides and all the junk food you can eat, it’s every kid’s dream. But this tragic turn of events means the two teens are forced to redefine their friendship, and as they navigate the already complicated teenage years, they fear their friendship may not be as eternal as they originally imagined.'

Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2021/11-03-ambitious-horror-comedy-crazy-fun-park).

1 form y separately published work icon Nowhere Boys : The Battle for Negative Space David Hannam , Marieke Hardy , Beth King , Craig Irvin , Jason Christou , Jessica Brookman , ( dir. Nicholas Verso et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2018 15374813 2018 series - publisher film/TV science fiction fantasy children's

'In the final series, the Nowhere Boys are back more powerful than ever and with an unlikely new member. But the new-year brings their most dangerous threat yet – an enemy capable of destroying the entire multiverse.'

Source: Program blurb.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Nowhere Boys : Two Moons Rising Rhys Graham , David Hannam , Kris Mrksa , Giula Sandler , ( dir. Sian Davies et. al. )agent 2016 Australia : Matchbox Productions Pty Ltd Nowhere Boys 3 , 2016 10423656 2016 series - publisher film/TV science fiction fantasy children's

'When tech-nerd and sci-fi fanatic Luke (Kamil Ellis) arrives for his first day at Bremin High all appears to be tiresomely ordinary, but what he doesn't know is that Bremin is located at the convergence of magical ley lines and that someone has been awaiting his arrival to put together a new gang of Nowhere Boys. Three other Nowhere Boys have already been identified; 'bad boy' Heath (Joe Klocek) high achiever and soccer star, Nicco (Luca Sardelis) and musical theatre geek Jesse (Jordie Race-Coldrey).

'Coinciding with Luke's arrival, the people of Bremin start disappearing. Doubly peculiar is that, not only are they disappearing, but they're being wiped from everyone's memory and only the Nowhere Boys have noticed! Eventually Luke, Heath, Nicco and Jesse discover they are the last four people in the world. They find themselves thrust together in an eerily empty wasteland, forced to figure out how to save the town.' (Production summary)

1 8 form y separately published work icon Boys in the Trees Nicholas Verso , ( dir. Nicholas Verso ) Adelaide : Mushroom Pictures , 2016 10253401 2016 single work film/TV

'Estranged teens Corey and Jonah, begrudgingly find themselves walking home together on Halloween 1997 - the last night of high school, embarking on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears as they lay the ghosts of their past to rest.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon The Last Time I Saw Richard Nicholas Verso , ( dir. Nicholas Verso ) Australia : Mushroom Pictures , 2013 6963136 2013 single work film/TV fantasy

'When Jonah befriends a fellow patient at his mental health clinic he discovers that the demons that haunt them both may not be so different from each other.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 28/1/2014)

1 2 form y separately published work icon Conspiracy 365 Michelle Offen , Kristen Dunphy , Michael Miller , Kris Wyld , Michael Brindley , Mark Shirrefs , Julie Lacy , Sam Carroll , Shanti Gudgeon , ( dir. Paul Goldman et. al. )agent 2012 Australia : Circa Entertainment , 2012 Z1828106 2012 series - publisher film/TV children's crime mystery

'Conspiracy 365 is the story of a year in the life of teenager Cal Ormond, who is forced to go on the run and become a fugitive as he searches for the truth behind a deadly family secret.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive (Sighted: 5/4/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon Snake Tales Brendan Luno , Anthony Watt , Alix Beane , Sam Carroll , Doug MacLeod , Mark Shirrefs , Kris Mrksa , ( dir. Daniel Nettheim et. al. )agent Australia : Westside Film & Television Nine Network , 2009 Z1881830 2009 series - publisher film/TV young adult fantasy

Two girls from opposite sides of the world are forced to learn to live together on a snake farm in a remote and possibly mystical area of the Australian outback. Though superficially the program is a 'clash of cultures' narrative in which the British Skye and the Australian Tiger have to come to terms with one another and with their life on the snake farm, it incorporates such fantastic elements as the breeding of brand new species of snakes, snakes suddenly growing to enormous size, and teenage werewolves.

1 form y separately published work icon Max : A Cautionary Tale Nicholas Verso , ( dir. Nicholas Verso ) Melbourne : Asphodel Films , 2003 Z1870517 2003 single work film/TV horror thriller

After moving house, troubled teen Damien Wilson becomes convinced that something is lurking at the end of the corridor. As his friends and family members begin to disappear, he teams up with two friends from high school to solve the mystey.

The writer-director, Nicholas Verso, describes the film as inspired by both The Breakfast Club and Nightmare on Elm Street, resulting in a coming-of-age horror film/black comedy.

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