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Joint venture between Hartswood Films, Bryncoed Productions will resonate with contemporary events.

Wild Bunch TV has boarded sales on Michael Hirst’s upcoming eight-part adaptation of Nobel prize winner Boris Pasternak’s classic tale of love, war and revolution, Doctor Zhivago, ahead of Miptv.

The series is a joint venture between two of the UK’s hottest TV production companies. Beryl Vertue and Sue Vertue at Hartswood Films are producing in association with Foz Allan’s Bryncoed Productions.

Set in the period between the First World War and Russia’s post-revolutionary civil war (1917-1922), the epic romance follows the trajectory...

Brian Cobb pitching the show in Rome.

Brian Cobb’s Cobbstar Productions has teamed up with France’s Black Sheep Films to co-produce Who’s Seen Jessica Bloom? a crime drama created by Australian actor Marin Mimica and his daughter Julia Rose O’Connor.

Wild Bunch TV will handle international distribution to the 8-part series which focuses on seventeen-year-old Jessica Bloom, who disappears during her final year at an elite Eastern Suburbs private school.

The abduction is streamed live via social media along with a series of torture videos. The police investigation reveals life isn’t as it seems for a group of privileged yet disillusioned year 12 students.

Cobb pitched the project, one of 20 chosen from around the globe, at Rome’s Mia market for TV series, feature films and documentaries last month. He had met with executives at Wild Bunch at Mip TV last year, they sparked to the...

'Indigo Lake' is an Aussie neo-noir written and directed by Martin Simpson, produced by Brian Cobb and starring Andrew Cutcliffe, Miranda O.Hare, Marin Mimica and Pamela Shaw. Cutcliffe ('Home and Away', 'Wonderland') plays Jack, a painter who falls in love with his subject (Miranda O.Hare), to the chagrin of her gangster husband (Marin Mimica)..

Simpson wrote the script in 2011 and brought it to Cobb, who put the budget together via private investors and the Offset. Beyond.s Martin Fabinyi, with whom Cobb worked under a Screen Australia Enterprise attachment, is executive producing. The indie feature made its world premiere in Canberra, the producer.s hometown, on April 23, followed by a screening at Sydney.s Dendy Newtown on April 26, where the stars, director and producer participated in a Q&A session..

International rights are being handled by Ksm, and the filmmakers will head...

'Indigo Lake' is an Aussie neo-noir written and directed by Martin Simpson, produced by Brian Cobb and starring Andrew Cutcliffe, Miranda O.Hare, Marin Mimica and Pamela Shaw. .

Cutcliffe ('Home and Away', 'Wonderland') plays Jack, a painter who falls in love with his subject (Miranda O.Hare), to the chagrin of her gangster husband (Marin Mimica)..

Simpson wrote the script in 2011 and brought it to Cobb, who put the budget together via private investors and the Offset. Beyond.s Martin Fabinyi, with whom Cobb worked under a Screen Australia Enterprise attachment, is executive producing.

The indie feature made its world premiere in Canberra, the producer.s hometown, on April 23, followed by a screening at Sydney.s Dendy Newtown on Wednesday night, where the stars, director and producer participated in a Q&A session.

International rights are being handled by Ksm, and the filmmakers will...

Writer-director Martin Simpson is shooting Indigo Lake, a thriller about an artist who is pressured into painting the portrait of a nightclub owner.s beautiful wife, in Sydney.

Andrew Cutliffe (Home and Away, Wonderland) plays Jake, the painter who falls in love with his subject (Miranda O.Hare), which arouses the suspicions of her husband (Marin Mimica).

The lovers develop a plan to kill the husband by drugging him and driving his car into Indigo Lake. But murder is not as easy as it's painted.

Jonas McLallen is producing with Brian Cobb and Beyond.s Martin Fabinyi as EPs. Beyond will handle international sales and will collaborate with Ross Howden.s Screen Launch on the Australian theatrical release.

Cobb is spending two years with Beyond as part of Screen Australia.s Enterprise program. The feature is financed by private investors and the producer offset. The 4-week shoot is on various locations around Sydney.