- 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
- Writer/Director Angela Buckingham Producer Yvonne Collins
- 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.
- Documentary - 52 minutes VIEW POSTER
- Available on DVD at major retailers and through Madman Entertainment.
- SBS CONTENT SALES & DISTRIBUTION Tel +612 9430 3464
THE MURDERESS & THE TEETOTALLERS
- Writer/Director Angela Buckingham
- 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.
- Documentary - 1 hour VIEW IMAGE
LADY TANGE'S TID BITS
- Writer/Director Angela Buckingham
- 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.
- Documentary - 1 hour VIEW IMAGE
SELLING AUSTRALIA
- Concept/Creator Angela Buckingham
- Development Consultant Vitek Czernuszyn
- Producer Yvonne Collins
- A 6-part television documentary series. VIEW IMAGE
HOOP
- Writer Dianne Dempsey Producer Yvonne Collins
- Script Editor Mac Gudgeon Script Development Film Victoria
- 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.
- Feature Film - Drama
THE LURE
- Director Paul Moloney Executive Producer Ian Kirk
- Writer Brent Crockett Producers John Hugginson Yvonne Collins
- A bitter sweet comedy/drama about second chances and
- dreams lost to old age being suddenly revitalized.
- Feature Film - In collaboration with Black Opal Films
A PERFECT PLACE TO LIVE
- Writer/Director Marianne Latham Writer Mike Hamilton
- Producer Yvonne Collins
- 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.
- Documentary - 1 hour
- TELEPHONE +613 9417 0281
- FACSIMILE +613 9417 0597
- CELLULAR +61 (414) 353 396
- EMAIL ymc@netspace.net.au
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- 179 Johnston Street
- Fitzroy 3065 Victoria
- Australia