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  • MARINA FILMS  is an independent film and television production company
  • based in Melbourne, Australia.  MARINA FILMS  produces and manages
  • productions at any scale, including its own slate of quality film and
  • television projects.
  • YVONNE COLLINS  Producer, Production Manager and Line Producer
  • is credited with feature films, television drama, award-winning
  • documentaries and corporate films. Yvonne has acted as Budget
  • Consultant and Assessor for many private clients and the
  • Australian government.    VIEW CV

  • PAPER DOLLS - Australian Pinups of World War 2

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  • Writer/Director  Angela Buckingham   Producer  Yvonne Collins
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  • PAPER DOLLS  won Best Documentary (Short Feature)
  • at the 2009 Strasbourg International Film Festival,
  • and was awarded a Certificate of Merit at
  • the Hugo TV Awards in Chicago, 2009.
  • Nominated for Best History Production,
  • History Makers Awards, New York, 2010.
  • Told through the recollections of three former models and pinups,
  • PAPER DOLLS  traces the history of the Australian pinup during the war.
  • World War 2 veterans also share how these pinups were pictures of hope,
  • morale boosters and lifted their spirits during a frightening, desperate and
  • lonely period of their lives.
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  • Documentary - 52 minutes      VIEW POSTER
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  • Available on DVD at major retailers and through Madman Entertainment.
  • SBS CONTENT SALES & DISTRIBUTION  Tel +612 9430 3464

THE MURDERESS & THE TEETOTALLERS
LADY TANGE'S TID BITS
HOOP
THE LURE
VANISHED

  • THE MURDERESS & THE TEETOTALLERS
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  • Writer/Director  Angela Buckingham
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  • The last woman hanged in Australia was Jean Lee. She was a prostitute
  • and a single mother and represented to the tabloid press the danger of
  • women who deviated from lives of accepted domesticity.
  • Yet out of the scandal and outrage came a campaign to save her life
  • and it was led from an unlikely quarter.
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  • Documentary - 1 hour    VIEW IMAGE
  • LADY TANGE'S TID BITS
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  • Writer/Director  Angela Buckingham   Producer  Yvonne Collins
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  • The story of the diplomatic wives of the 1960s and '70s.
  • These women were hostesses par excellence, often negotiators
  • and sometimes spies. Their expectations were set out in a confidentially
  • classified document released by the Australian government - a
  • Machiavellian guide to the world of tea and scones.
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  • Documentary - 1 hour - Development Assistance from Film Victoria  VIEW IMAGE
  • HOOP
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  • Writer  Dianne Dempsey   Producer  Yvonne Collins
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  • Script Editor  Mac Gudgeon   Script Development  Film Victoria
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  • Behind the glamour of the Australian racing industry there lies a harsh
  • world where a lonely girl is determined to ride her horse to victory.
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  • Feature Film - Drama
  • THE LURE
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  • Director  Paul Moloney
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  • Writer  Brent Crockett   Producer  Yvonne Collins
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  • A bitter sweet comedy/drama about second chances and
  • dreams lost to old age being suddenly revitalized.
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  • Feature Film
  • VANISHED
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  • Writer/Director  Marianne Latham
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  • Producer  Yvonne Collins
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  • This is the story of an Australian town that no longer exists - a town killed
  • and buried under a mountain of ignorance, lies and greed.
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  • Documentary - 1 hour - Development Assistance from Screen Australia
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  • TELEPHONE   +613 9417 0281
  • SKYPE     Marinafilms
  • CELLULAR  +61 (414) 353 396
  • EMAIL   ymc@netspace.net.au
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  • 179 Johnston Street
  • Fitzroy 3065 Victoria
  • Australia