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Kris Mrksa Kris Mrksa i(A105704 works by)
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BiographyHistory

Script-writer.

Kris Mrksa has been working as a script-writer since 2001. His first script was the short film Sparky D Comes to Town (2001), the story of a son of an emigrant family, his Australian girlfriend, and his clashes with his parents' generation. Written in both English and Serbian, it was filmed in Melbourne and directed by Maciek Wszelaki. The work won Mrksa a 2001 AFI Award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film (as well as winning Wszelaki numerous awards for his direction).

Mrksa followed this script with a succession of scripts for Jonathan M. Shiff Productions, including work on Horace & Tina (2001), Pirate Islands (2003), Wicked Science (2004), and Scooter: Secret Agent (2005). In 2003, he wrote eleven episodes of spoof talkshow Greeks on the Roof, in which Mary Coustas reprised her Acropolis Now character Effie Stephanidis, and in 2005, he contributed scripts to adult drama series The Secret Life of Us.

Since 2007, Mrksa has been particularly prolific. In 2007, he wrote episodes of Kick and East West 101, as well as scripting the Graham Kennedy biopic The King, co-written with Jaime Browne. In 2008 and 2009, he wrote episodes of The Saddle Club, Carla Cametti, Rush, Snake Tales, and Packed to the Rafters.

In 2009, Mrksa began working on the Underbelly series, for which he wrote at least eight episodes between 2009 and 2010, as well as the telemovie Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (2011). Also in 2011, he wrote two episodes of the television adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas's novel The Slap.

His most recent work has been for the series Devil's Dust (2012), which recounts the corporate scandal behind James Hardie and asbestos risks.

He was also script editor for both series of Wilfred.

Among Mrksa's awards are two AFI Awards (for Sparky D Comes to Town and for his script 'The Brotherhood' for Underbelly) and three AWGIE Awards (with his co-writers for The Slap, with his co-writers for Underbelly, and with his co-writers for East West 101), as well as an AWGIE nomination (with his co-writer for The King.)

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form y separately published work icon Nowhere Boys : Two Moons Rising ( 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)
2017 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Children's Television Series
form y separately published work icon Glitch ( dir. Emma Freeman ) Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2015-2019 8308194 2015 series - publisher film/TV science fiction

A small Australian town faces the return of the beloved dead – some recently deceased, and some long gone.
2015 winner Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
2015 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series
2016 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Mini-series - Original
2017 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series
form y separately published work icon Janet King ( dir. Grant Brown et. al. )agent Australia : Screentime ABC Television , 2014-2017 6641047 2014 series - publisher film/TV crime

Janet King is an Australian television drama series which first aired on ABC1 in 2014. It was created as a spin-off from the 2011 legal drama Crownies.


Series 1:

'An 8-hour legal/political thriller that is a spin-off of Crownies featuring Marta Dusseldorp reprising her role of Crown Prosecutor Janet King. The series will look at the dilemmas of a contemporary woman who returns to work after a year's maternity leave and is flung into a shocking prosecution that involves layers of intrigue played out at the highest levels of power. Janet King's case leads her through some astounding twists and revelations that impact on her life on every level.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 7/4/2014)


Series 2:

With gun crime in the suburbs causing great concern, the state government establishes a Royal Commission to look into the problem following the death of Todd Wilson and appoints Janet King to head it. Give the power to become investigators, King and her team are allowed to raid premises, interrogate persons of interest and have police seconded to them. King believes that solving Wilson's murder might uncover what's fuelling the violence.

Series 3:

Janet confronts a hornet’s nest of illegal gambling, organised crime and money laundering while tracking the tragic death of a young sports star. What begins as a spot betting investigation soon unmasks elite professional sportsmen and women and their connection to the shadowy underbelly of performance enhancing drugs, match fixing, kickbacks and, ultimately, murder.

Source: ABCTV (http://about.abc.net.au/abc-in-2017/drama-lovers/). (Sighted: 04/11/2016)
2014 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series
2017 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series

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