Gretel Vella Gretel Vella i(14785097 works by)
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1 1 form y separately published work icon Class of '07 Kacie Anning , Kacie Anning , Romina Accurso , Mimi Butler , Anchuli Felicia King , Zoë Norton Lodge , Nina Oyama , Gretel Vella , Adele Vuko , Courtney Wise , 2023 Australia : Matchbox Pictures Universal International Studios , 2023 27437865 2023 series - publisher film/TV humour 'An apocalyptic tidal wave hits during the 10-year reunion of an all-girls high school. The group has to find a way to survive on the island peak of their old high school campus, while dealing with old high school drama.' (Production summary) 
1 1 form y separately published work icon Totally Completely Fine Emme Hoy , Gretel Vella , Keir Wilkins , ( dir. Lucy Gaffy et. al. )agent 2023 United States of America (USA) : FremantleMedia Australia , 2023- 26099062 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'It follows Vivian Cunningham, who winds up helping people who come too close to the edge as she endures her own comedic catastrophes like accidentally burning down her brother's vegan food truck with a vape.' (IMDB)

1 2 form y separately published work icon Christmas Ransom Elliot Vella , Gretel Vella , Timothy Walker , ( dir. Adele Vuko ) Byron Bay : Every Cloud Productions , 2022 25485112 2022 single work film/TV

'When a pair of bumbling crooks hijack the Harrington and Sons toy store, a pair of kids stumble into the heist and are forced to team up with a female security officer to save Christmas.' (Production summary)

1 form y separately published work icon A Pox on Hope Tony McNamara , Gretel Vella , ( dir. Colin Bucksey ) Australia United Kingdom (UK) : Echo Lake Entertainment Macgowan and Beneficiary Films Media Rights Capital , 2020 23332743 2020 single work film/TV
1 3 form y separately published work icon A Sunburnt Christmas Elliot Vella , Gretel Vella , Timothy Walker , ( dir. Christiaan Van Vuuren ) Australia : Every Cloud Productions Highview Productions , 2020 20880939 2020 single work film/TV 'On an outback farm that's seen hard times, a single mum and her three kids struggle to keep their life together. With Dad recently passed away and Mum slowly losing the plot, it is 14-year-old Hazel who shoulders the burden, managing the failing farm and keeping her younger siblings from careering completely off the rails. They all suspect there won't be much Christmas joy this year, but when a strange man dressed as Santa Claus crashes a van full of toys onto their property, their world is turned upside down in ways they could never have imagined.' (Production summary)
1 y separately published work icon Allan Gretel Vella , 2020 Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19664432 2020 single work drama
1 3 form y separately published work icon The Great Tony McNamara , Tess Morris , Gretel Vella , James Wood , ( dir. Colin Bucksey et. al. )agent 2020 Australia United Kingdom (UK) : Thruline Entertainment Echo Lake Entertainment Macgowan and Beneficiary Films Media Rights Capital , 2020-2023 19291645 2020 series - publisher film/TV

'The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia's history. Season One is a fictionalized, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter. Hoping for love and sunshine, she finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, defeat the church, baffle the military and get the court on her side. Incorporating historical facts occasionally, the series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Sacha Dhawan, Sebastian de Souza, Bayo Gbadamosi, Belinda Bromilow and Richard Pyros.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_(miniseries)

1 y separately published work icon Bathory Begins Emme Hoy , Gretel Vella , Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2019 18453928 2019 single work drama

'Year 10 Art teacher Mrs Bathory is most definitely a reincarnation of the sadistic, serial-killer Countess, Erzebet Báthory. It’s pretty obvious to her class of seven —yes, seven — girls. The last remaining survivors. When the students in 10F decide to pull the prank of the century and destroy the beast for good, there’s just one thing that stands in their way. The private schoolboys from Judas Gents have arrived, and they don’t feel so comfortable with murder.

'Girls vs. boys. Public vs. private… And an undead woman of the night. Things were never going to end well.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Carking It Gretel Vella , 2018 single work drama

'I know you’re both enjoying the views this evening. “Enjoying”, might be the wrong word.'

'The rooftop of the local hospital – smack bang in the middle of a town called Misery. It's the kind of rugged, unassuming rooftop heroes stand on at the beginning of action films, or criminals frequent to inject heroin into their eyeballs. Tonight, it's also the place people come to die. Eric, Dot and Shaun have accidentally chosen the same spot on the same night, and it's time to decide who gets to go through with their plan.

'Enter Jessica, who bypasses said debate and desperately jumps over the ledge. She doesn't get far, when our unlikely heroes catch her by the ankle and haul her back onto the rooftop. Now she's been saved — and experiences a perspective shift, the likes of which this group have never seen. Destiny has brought them together to help each other. To save each other.'

Source: NIDA.

1 The Hysteric Gretel Vella , 2018 single work drama

'The Alpha, The Nice-Guy, The Soft-Boy: you’ve all met one, know one, avoid one like you would an over-affectionate uncle. Now watch as they go head-to-head in the ultimate display of masculinity, a joust for the supreme prize, the object of greatest desire - a lady! That is, until a little hysteria permeates the proceedings …Things are about to get a little crazy.'

Source: Production blurb (Kings Cross Theatre).

1 form y separately published work icon Doctor Doctor The Heart Guy Tony McNamara , Alice Bell , Liz Doran , Tamara Asmar , Angela McDonald , Gretel Vella , Timothy Lee , Keith Thompson , Josh Mapleston , Mithila Gupta , Katherine Thomson , ( dir. Peter Salmon et. al. )agent New South Wales : Essential Media and Entertainment Nine Network , 2016-2020 9516037 2016 series - publisher film/TV

'When he is knocked off his pedestal and on to the Impaired Registrants Program, prodigal Sydney surgeon and party boy Hugh Knight must return to his family home in rural Whyhope where he might learn to swallow his pride and mend his ways – or not.'

Source: Production blurb.

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