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A UTEFUL OF TWILIGHT
the web series
BEST SCRIPT
2017
NT LITERARY
AWARDS
BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORTS 2018
SYDNEY INDIE
FILM FEST 2018
Semi-Finalist
seven stories taking you on a dark Top End ride
"A Uteful of Twilight
Is rattling your way
All you thought normal
Has come out to play
Borders dissolving
Between right and wrong
Iconic sports heroes
Flipped for a song"
from the theme song of Uteful
If Fargo, Wake In Fright, and Breaking Bad were locked in a shed pumped full of something hot, heavy, and wildly inappropriate, A Uteful of Twilight would be the demon seed.
But don’t be fooled—Uteful isn’t a mongrel. It’s pure. Pure as revenge—a theme that crackles through history, from Greek tragedy to the Bible, from folktales to Hamlet, and on to Django Unchained.
This 7 x 10-minute series glories in difference. It grabs revenge by the throat and plants it smack bang in the Top End of Australia. Bold and edgy, it'll make you squirm, shudder, and laugh—leaving you never quite sure where it’s taking you next.
THE RIDE
LAST ANTHILL OF THE WILD NORTH
Action drama
Cornered by police across a termite field, a failed larrikin adventurer on a speed-fueled murder spree hallucinates his showdown with the authorities and the movie star he rails against for stealing his identity.
STASH
Supernatural crime
Two petty crims, tracking down a stash of amphetamines, exhume the body of a murdered mate only to desecrate a sacred site and face off against a custodian who must manipulate them into killing each other.
OUR STORY
Psychological thriller
A kidnapper, leading his hooded victim across the distant beaches of the Top End, relates a chilling folktale as the boy realizes the story is his only hope of escape.
VERONICA VERY VET vs BABY JOEY ZOMBIE
Horror comedy
As a lonely wildlife vet approaches her 1000th like on Facebook, she secretly euthanatizes over-pampered pets only to incur the vengeance of one of her victims – a baby joey zombie.
BARBED
Psychological drama
A media magnate, deigning to meet the parents of a murdered girl whose phone was hacked by his reporters, has his feel-good mea culpa spiral out far beyond his control.
DONE FOODIE
Drama
A Ms. David and Goliath story that pits a predatory celebrity chef against a roadhouse cook whose exacted payback ruins him in unimaginable ways.
LURED
Outback noir
On a remote riverbank in the Top End, a tense fishing trip between two old mates unravels into a deadly reckoning when long-buried betrayal rises to the surface.