Shoreline

Two estranged adult siblings, a snarky postman and a dominatrix, are pulled back into their parents' orbit after a botched suicide attempt, and as their fragile support network collapses, the family is forced back to the beach house where a buried childhood tragedy still waits in the walls.

Melbourne International Screenplay Awards:

¨Arrives with a quietly devastating confidence.¨
¨Highly producible.¨
¨Character work is the screenplay´s greatest strength.¨

Hollywood Analysis extracts:

¨Shoreline would slot well alongside contemporary Australian arthouse output and the broader Anglophone family-drama strand (Aftersun, The Quiet Girl, A Real Pain). ¨

¨Pam needs a Judy Davis or Robyn Nevin, and that calibre of casting is what gets this financed. Patrick is a star-making role for the right thirtysomething Australian actor. Streamer interest from Stan, ABC iView, BBC, and MUBI is realistic.¨

¨Shoreline is a tightly crafted Australian family drama that earns every quiet moment by refusing
the easy ones. The writing trusts the reader, the dialogue is character-specific, and the buried tragedy at the centre lands because the script lets us assemble it ourselves rather than handing it over.¨

¨Aaron, this is the kind of feature that gets made because someone reads it on a Friday afternoon and can't stop thinking about it on Saturday.¨