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Wayne Blair Wayne Blair i(A105963 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Butchulla/Batjala/Badtjala
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1 form y separately published work icon Plum Brendan Cowell , Fiona Seres , ( dir. Wayne Blair et. al. )agent Australia : Roadshow Rough Diamond Modern Convict Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2025 27416227 2025 series - publisher film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Total Control [Episode 2.2] Pip Karmel , ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : Blackfella Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2021 26405915 2021 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Total Control [Episode 2.1] Stuart Page , ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : Blackfella Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2021 23367770 2021 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Broken Kodie Bedford , ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : Bunya Productions Australian Broadcasting Commission , 2020 20826037 2020 single work film/TV
1 4 form y separately published work icon Firestarter : The Story of Bangarra Wayne Blair , Ivan O'Mahoney , Nel Minchin , ( dir. Wayne Blair et. al. )agent Australia : In Films , 2020 20716459 2020 single work film/TV

'Firestarter will mark the 30th anniversary of Australia’s most iconic performing arts company: Bangarra Dance Theatre. Told through the personal family story of its celebrated and longstanding artistic director, Stephen Page.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 8 form y separately published work icon Total Control Black B*tch Stuart Page , Kim Wilson , Rachel Perkins , Pip Karmel , Angela Betzien , Larissa Behrendt , Nakkiah Lui , Julia Moriarty , Meyne Wyatt , Debra Oswald , ( dir. Rachel Perkins et. al. )agent Australia : Blackfella Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2019-2023 15284926 2019 series - publisher film/TV

'An unlikely national hero, Alex is catapulted into government in a cynical power play. Used, abandoned and underestimated, now she's on a path that will send the political establishment into meltdown.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 2 form y separately published work icon SeaChange : Paradise Reclaimed Deb Cox , Elizabeth Coleman , Jo Martino , Michael Miller , Jaime Browne , Ian Meadows , Josh Mapleston , Sam Carroll , ( dir. Wayne Blair et. al. )agent Australia : Every Cloud Productions Seachange Reimagined ITV Studios Australia , 2019 17487273 2019 series - publisher film/TV

'Twenty years on – when Laura Gibson returns to the beachside paradise of Pearl Bay to attend the birth of her estranged daughter’s baby – rising seas levels, community cover-ups and some very stormy weather conspire to convince her this town now needs her as much as she needs it.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 9 form y separately published work icon Top End Wedding Miranda Tapsell , Joshua Tyler , ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : Goalpost Pictures , 2019 13859352 2019 single work film/TV

'This hilarious and heart-warming comedy is the story of successful Sydney lawyer, Lauren, and her fiancée Ned. Engaged and in love, they have just 10 days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the Northern Territory, reunite her parents and pull off their dream Top End Wedding.' (Production abstract)

1 13 form y separately published work icon Mystery Road Michaeley O'Brien , Steven McGregor , Kodie Bedford , Jon Bell , Timothy Lee , Blake Ayshford , Danielle MacLean , ( dir. Rachel Perkins et. al. )agent Australia : Bunya Productions Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2018-2020 11467193 2018 series - publisher film/TV detective

Series one:

'Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two young farm hands on an outback cattle station. One is a local Indigenous footy hero, and the other a backpacker. Working with local cop Emma James (Judy Davis), Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.'

Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2017/07-12-mystery-road-series). (Sighted: 13/07/2017)


Series two:

'A headless corpse is found floating by the shore in a remote outback town. As if this weren’t mysterious enough, Detective Swan and his colleague Fran have to contend with protests against the excavation of an Indigenous site. And then another body turns up.'

Source: Berlinale program (Sighted: 13/02/2020)

1 form y separately published work icon Godfrey Gerard Lee , Wayne Blair , ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : See Pictures , 2018 13197302 2018 single work film/TV

'Godfrey (30s), highly autistic, lives with his Indigenous adoptive-brother David. Their precarious domestic balance is destabilised when physiotherapist Annie arrives in town.'

Source: Screen Australia funding approvals.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Bite Club John Ridley , Sarah Smith , ( dir. Peter Andrikidis et. al. )agent Sydney : Playmaker Media Nine Network , 2018 12542817 2018 series - publisher film/TV crime

Two police detectives, both survivors of a shark attack, team up to hunt a serial killer.

1 59 form y separately published work icon Cleverman Jon Bell , Jonathan Gavin , Ryan Griffen , Michael Miller , Jane Allen , Stuart Page , Justine Gillmer , Jonathan Gavin , ( dir. Wayne Blair et. al. )agent Australia New Zealand : Goalpost Pictures Pukeko Pictures , 2016-2017 8816704 2016 series - publisher film/TV science fiction

Two Indigenous brothers fight for survival in a world in which humans and non-humans clash.

1 form y separately published work icon Terra Nullius Michael Miller , Jane Allen , ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : Goalpost Pictures Pukeko Pictures , 2016 11075392 2016 single work film/TV
1 12 form y separately published work icon Love Child Matt Ford , Cathy Strickland , Liz Doran , Tim Pye , Kym Goldsworthy , Sarah Lambert , Giula Sandler , Christine McCourt , Jane Allen , Tamara Asmar , Fiona Samuel , Fin Edquist , Vanessa Alexander , Josephine Dee Barrett , Chris Hawkshaw , Lara Radulovich , Wendy Hanna , Samantha Winston , Sarah Smith , ( dir. Geoff Bennett et. al. )agent Australia : Playmaker Media Nine Network , 2014- 7030158 2014 series - publisher film/TV

'A character drama set in 1969 in Kings Cross; the time and place Australia came of age and the new generation broke all the rules. It was the Summer of Love. Mick Jagger was in town, Australia was glued to the telecast of the moon landing and American sailors clashed on the street with anti-Vietnam war protesters. We follow Joan Millar, 28, a maverick midwife returning to Australia and five young pregnant women, whose choices for their babies and own lives exemplify the radical changes at the heart of the cultural and sexual revolution. Their lives intersect between a maternity hospital, a home for unwed mothers and the wild streets of Darlinghurst.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 13/2/2014)

1 6 y separately published work icon Sugarland Rachael Coopes , Wayne Blair , 2014 South Brisbane : Playlab , 2014 7682403 2014 single work drama

'Sugarland provides a glimpse into a teenage Australia that feels like a foreign country. This haunting new play will make you pause, make you smile, make you wonder how much can be real.

'Erica's Dad is in the RAAF so her life gets a transplant every few years. Now she's in year eleven she's stopped trying to fit in. What does it matter; she'll be out of there in a few years anyway. Nina's good at school but that's not important. She needs a house to live in. And she needs it soon. She's been living at her Auntie's so she can go to school in town, but that's not working out.

'The only thing Erica and Nina have in common is the music they listen to. Sometimes that's enough.'(Publication summary)

1 1 form y separately published work icon The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting Jason Burrows , Phil Lloyd , Trent O'Donnell , Trent O'Donnell (director), Craig Melville (director), Alethea Jones (director), Abe Forsythe (director), Wayne Blair (director), Christiaan Van Vuuren (director), Connor Van Vuuren (director), 2013 Australia : ABC Television , 2013 Z1929764 2013 series - publisher film/TV humour 'Welcome to The Elegant Gentleman's Guide To Knife Fighting, a surreal stroll into the creative minds of some of Australia's most exciting and newest comedy writers and directors. The Elegant Gentleman's Guide To Knife Fighting aspires to take sketch comedy in a different direction. With longer-form scenes, less traditional material, and a surprising cast, it will be at times random, often ridiculous and occasionally surreal. Produced by the award-winning Jungleboys and the creators of Review with Myles Barlow and A Moody Christmas, The Elegant Gentleman's Guide To Knife Fighting creates a brand new uncharted space for sketch comedy in Australia.' (Source: ABC website)
1 1 Singled Out Luke Carson , Wayne Blair , Grace de Morgan , Sarah Carradine , Vanessa Bates , Tim Spencer , Emma Magenta , Alli Sebastian Wolf , 2013 single work drama

''Singled Out is a brand new inter-generational, multi-playwright project developed by creative producer and new work director Augusta Supple and supported by a professional production team of some of Sydney’s most respected independent performers, musicians and playwrights. Responding to the prediction that by 2020, one in three living arrangements in Sydney will be that of solo households this new show is a heartfelt and hilarious adventure in the private lives of our neighbours, friends and relatives.

Offering an insight into the lives of many, 'Singled Out' is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits – colliding and intersecting – revealing flights of fancy, the gentle musings or the robust reflections on what it means to be living alone in a thriving dynamic city. Harnessing the creative imaginations of some of Australia’s leading playwrights this is a unique celebration of our city, our private moments and public confessions – exploring the joy and freedom of solo living and the sometimes hidden realities of the solo living person.' (Source: http://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/singled-out/ )

1 12 form y separately published work icon The Gods of Wheat Street Jon Bell , Lois Randall , Jon Bell , ( dir. Catriona McKenzie et. al. )agent 2012 Australia : ABC Television , 2014 Z1875098 2012 series - publisher film/TV

'The central character in the series is Odin Freeburn, who promised his dying mother 20 years ago he would keep the family together. Now, he has one brother in jail, another brother in love with the daughter of the family enemy and his wife has run away to the city, leaving him to raise their two daughters.

His employer has just died, his sister-in-law is in love with him and the spirit of his mother Eden has come back to tell him how to do it all so much better and protect the important destiny of the Freeburn line.'

(Source: Koori Mail 2012:27)

1 147 form y separately published work icon The Sapphires Keith Thompson , Tony Briggs , ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : Goalpost Pictures , 2012 Z1809626 2012 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units) 'Gail, Cynthia, Julie and Kay are sexy, black, young and talented - and they've never set foot outside Australia. Until, in the chaos of 1968, they're plucked from the obscurity of a remote Aboriginal mission, branded as Australia's answer to The Supremes, and - grasping the chance of a lifetime - dropped into the jungles of Vietnam to entertain the troops.' Source: www.encoremagazine.com.au/ (Sighted 26/09/2011).
1 52 form y separately published work icon Redfern Now Jon Bell , Adrian Wills , Steven McGregor , Danielle MacLean , Michelle Blanchard , Wayne Blair , ( dir. Catriona McKenzie et. al. )agent Australia : ABC Television Screen Australia Blackfella Films , 2012-2013 Z1750518 2012 series - publisher film/TV

Redfern Now is 'the first contemporary TV drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.'

Source: ABC Television website.

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