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1 form y separately published work icon RFDS Ian Meadows , Claire Phillips , Jon Bell , Adrian Wills , ( dir. Jennifer Leacey et. al. )agent Australia : Endemol Australia Seven Network , 2021- 23102272 2021 series - publisher film/TV

'The gripping new eight-hour drama, based in Australia’s red heart, where the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart stopping emergencies they attend.'

Source: Endemol Shine.

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 form y separately published work icon Playing for Keeps Claire Phillips , Christine Bartlett , Ainslie Clouston , Ian Meadows , Mithila Gupta , Rick Maier , ( dir. Sian Davies et. al. )agent Australia : Screentime Network Ten , 2018-2019 15285619 2018 series - publisher film/TV

Follows the male-dominated world of a football club where the real power is the women.

Source: Network Ten.

1 form y separately published work icon On the Ropes The Ropes Tamara Asmar , Adam Todd , Ian Meadows , Courtney Wise , ( dir. Shannon Murphy ) Australia : Lingo Pictures SBS , 2018 13357986 2018 series - publisher film/TV

A young Iraqi-Australian woman in the western suburbs of Sydney chases her dream of becoming an elite boxing trainer.

Source: Screen Australia.

1 4 form y separately published work icon The Moodys Ian Meadows , Trent O'Donnell , Patrick Brammall , Phil Lloyd , ( dir. Scott Pickett et. al. )agent Australia : Jungleboys , 2014 6911138 2014 series - publisher film/TV

'The follow-up to the hugely popular series A Moody Christmas. Picking up a month after we last saw them, it will visit the Moodys at various family events throughout the year. Like A Moody Christmas, each episode will revolve around a particular occasion that naturally brings them back together such as Australia Day, Bridget's 60th Birthday, or the Easter Long Weekend.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 33 form y separately published work icon The Turning Tim Winton , ( dir. Benedict Andrews et. al. )agent Australia : Arenamedia Pty Ltd , 2013 Z1912300 2013 selected work film/TV

'Seventeen extraordinary Australian directors respond to the hauntingly beautiful collection of short stories by Tim Winton. Spanning almost 30 years, these stories provide windows into the lives of men and women in the small coastal town of Angelus. Linking and overlapping, the stories create a stunning and disturbing portrait of a small coastal community in Western Australia. As befits the title of the film, the stories are preoccupied with the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people's lives. Relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.'

Source: Screen Australia

1 form Defender Ian Meadows , 2013 single work film/TV
— Appears in: The Turning 2013;

'Gail and Vic travel to see their friends in the country. In the car, Gail admits to having had an affair and struggles with Vic's lack of reaction. When Fenn offers Vic a shotgun to shoot at clay pigeons, something Vic has not done since he was a young man, he is strangely freed from the ghosts of his past.'

Source: The Turning website (http://www.theturningmovie.com.au/#!/defender/). (Sighted: 6/12/2013)

1 24 form y separately published work icon House Husbands Ellie Beaumont , Nicholas Coghlan , Ellie Beaumont , Michael Miller , Drew Proffitt , Christine Bartlett , Matt Ford , Leon Ford , Fin Edquist , Kirsty Fisher , Keith Thompson , Tim Pye , Kelly Lefever , Timothy Lee , Jane Morton , Meaghan Smith , Trent Roberts , Jo Martino , Sam Carroll , Ian Meadows , Josh Mapleston , Sam Meikle , ( dir. Geoff Bennett et. al. )agent 2012 Australia : Nine Network Playmaker Media , 2012-2017 Z1882378 2012 series - publisher film/TV

'[This] series centres on four young families with one thing in common: the men are in charge of raising the kids.

'It's the beginning of a new school year and recently retired Lewis (Gary Sweet) finds himself in the unfamiliar role of stay-at-home dad to Tilda, his daughter with nurse Gemma (Julia Morris).

'Gemma works at the hospital with her best friend Abi (Natalie Saleeba) whose husband Mark (Rhys Muldoon) is juggling a return to part-time work and looking after five-year-old Poppy.

'Mark's brother-in-law Kane (Gyton Grantley) is in a relationship with Tom (Tim Campbell), raising Tom's orphaned niece Stella.

'When dropping their daughters off on the first day of school, the three men meet Justin (Firass Dirani), a former AFL star who, thanks to his bad boy ways, has seen his career and family walk out the door. He is now facing the fight of his life to win custody of his twin boys Zac and Jacob and eight-month-old daughter Angie.

'Finding themselves severely outnumbered by all the mothers at the school drop-off zone, the four men band together and help each other along as they face the challenges of raising a young family.'

Source: Channel Nine website (http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8469113) (Sighted: 17/10/2012)

1 5 y separately published work icon Between Two Waves Ian Meadows , 2012 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012 Z1816890 2012 single work drama

'Having lost a lifetime of research in the worst floods Sydney has witnessed, Daniel - a climatologist and advisor to the government - isn't in the mood for appreciating the irony of what he should have predicted.

'Paralysed by the knowledge that the world is consuming itself, Daniel takes little joy in planning for his future - somewhat of a problem for his spirited other half, Fiona. When Fiona tells Daniel they're about to start a family, Daniel must choose between what he knows and what he loves.

'An urgent and searching new play about the most pressing issue of our times, Between Two Waves asks an anxious, warming world: how do we find happiness in the face of an uncertain future?

'A politically charged relationship drama set against a climate change backdrop, Between Two Waves is the first play to be produced out of the Griffin Studio, by one of the most talented new voices in the country.'

Source: Griffith Theatre Company website.

1 1 Four Deaths in the Life of Ronaldo Abok Ian Meadows , 2011 single work drama 'In June 2011, Ronaldo Abok's life is in chaos. It should be a time for joyous celebration - South Sudan, the homeland he was forced from is about to be become the world's newest nation. But Ronaldo is torn in too many directions.

He's studying filmmaking, working his part-time job at the cinema, ferrying Aunt Mary and her kids around town and visiting Uncle Atem in hospital. And although Ronaldo's certain he's the next Tarantino, he can't get his films off the ground - in Australia you need English to have a voice.

Then he meets Rachel - a girl who knows her mind but questions whether Ronaldo knows his. Will he be a Lost Boy forever, or will he find peace?

Four Deaths in the Life of Ronaldo Abok
is a funny, moving and beautifully uplifting new work from local playwright Ian Meadows. This is Ian's debut Sydney production before his mainstage premiere of Between Two Waves at Griffin Theatre Company in 2012.

At the heart of the work are a team of Southern Sudanese Australian artists who have passionately contributed stories, history, song and dance through a series of development workshops facilitated by Small Things Productions.' (Source: Riverside Theatres website)
1 7 form y separately published work icon Slide SLiDE Shanti Gudgeon , Nicky Arnell , Chris Phillips , Mark Lamprell , Shawn Grant , Ian Meadows , Matt Ford , ( dir. Shawn Seet et. al. )agent Australia : Playmaker Media Hoodlum , 2011 Z1798786 2011 series - publisher film/TV young adult

'SLIDE is an exciting integrated multiplatform drama experience and tracks five teens as they smash their way into adulthood. When you’re 17, life can turn in 24 hours and for Bryan, Tammy, Luke, [Scarlett] and Eva this will be the transformative time of their lives. They’ve got 10 weeks, each other and a lift home from mum when they need it. SLIDE: survive your teenage years with a smile.'

Source: Screen Australia

1 Heartbreak Hotel Ian Meadows , Kate Mulvany , 2011 single work drama

'Popping up for one night only at the Stables theatre - walk down a lonely street to the Heartbreak Hotel. An exploration of the human heart, and the nooks and crannies of the theatre, the Hotel is a full-on sensory, immersive and transformative happening. Developed by the Griffin Studio in response to the public's submission of objects and tales of woe, the Hotel promises to deliver guests an evening of cathartic entertainment. What find you in the land of heartbreak?

Unburden yourself in the Crazy Break-up Behaviour confession booth, healing apace in a one-on-one counselling session with famed Agony Aunt, Glace Chase. Take a trip down memory lane to schoolyard love in Kate Mulvany's Yes, No, Maybe. For the curious, stimulation physical and emotional in the Sensory Sound Lock (specialising, conversely, in unlocking repressed memories of heartache/break with Macaroons, feathers etc). Enter the Teen Love Crush for a whisper of love unrequited and excruciating rhyming couplets. Ramp up the melodrama in Sands Through the Hour Glass - a contemporary performance duo examining a hotel murder, and the marriage that started it all. Acknowledging, though, that sometimes people should really just Shut Up, and that physical and facial expression really can say it all, some of the Hotel's residents will be exploring the shattering of dreams in movement. Finally, keeping it real, Ian Meadow's will be placing Dummy somewhere so secret in the hotel, even the concierge is ignorant of its whereabouts....' Source: www.griffintheatre.com.au/ (Sighted 08/06/2011)

1 50 form y separately published work icon Offspring Imogen Banks , John Edwards , Debra Oswald , Debra Oswald , Tony McNamara , Leon Ford , Ben Chessell , Jonathan Gavin , Michael Lucas , Christine Bartlett , Tommy Murphy , Kylie Needham , Ian Meadows , Charlie Garber , Samantha Strauss , Li-Kim Chuah , Rachel Givney , Alice Bell , ( dir. Shirley Barrett et. al. )agent 2010 Australia : Southern Star John Edwards , 2010- Z1733890 2010 series - publisher film/TV

'Born out of the telemovie of the same name, Offspring is a contemporary drama series about Nina Proudman, a thirtysomething obstetrician and her fabulously messy family. Following the Proudman family's adventures searching for love, fulfillment and balance in the chaos of modern life, Offspring is about the life forces that drive us all: love, sex, babies, food and music. Stylistically fresh and visually exciting, Offspring mixes conventional narrative drama with flashbacks, graphic animation and fantasy sequences, showcasing the vibrant world of Fitzroy, Melbourne, where Nina and the extended Proudman family go about their unpredictable daily lives.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive.

1 15 form y separately published work icon Spirited Jacquelin Perske , Ian Meadows , Tony McNamara , Jessica Redenbach , Marieke Hardy , Lally Katz , Alice Bell , Tommy Murphy , Jacquelin Perske , Claudia Karvan , ( dir. Jonathan Teplitzky et. al. )agent Sydney Australia : Southern Star Entertainment Channel W , 2010- Z1719410 2010- series - publisher film/TV humour fantasy

'Spirited is a romantic look at life and love after death with a rock 'n' roll twist. From the producers of Love My Way, Spirited is a blackly funny exploration of love, death and life seen through the lives of a group of people who are extreme, complicated and unique. The eight episode, escapist and romantic drama series will take richly drawn characters through situations and storylines that are anything but predictable. This is a show with a lightness of touch and yet it also encompasses the absurdity of modern dentistry, explores the curious world of parenting, celebrates the punk aesthetic and depicts a unique vision of the spirit world' (Spirited website).

1 form y separately published work icon Water Corrie Jones , Sarah Shaw , Ian Meadows , ( dir. Corrie Jones ) Australia : The Everywhen , 2009 Z1645432 2009 single work film/TV

'Toby yearns for a life like any other eight-year-old kid. But his mentally disabled father is a constant reminder that life for Toby will never be normal.'

Source: Australian Film Institute website, www.afi.org.au (sighted: 11/11/09)

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