Cirrus@Austlit

'Today is the day Danielle is going to find out her sister is a complete bitch." Danielle lives a quiet life until she arrives from work one day, and her young sister Sarah is wrapped around naked with Danielle's boyfriend on her couch. Straight out of rehab, Sarah wants to re-start her life but goes all the wrong way about it. Slowly she slides back into addiction and effects everyone around her. Danielle must choose to help Sarah or let her go forever.'

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'Nathan is convinced his partner Lucia is cheating on him; Lucia is having an affair with Lorenzo, a man half her age; Lorenzo is sleeping with his friend, Tom; Tom is kicked out of home and seduces Walter to get free shelter; Walter is no longer in love with Marilyn; Marilyn cannot accept rejection. Six interconnected people are interviewed about their most intimate secrets and opinions of love for a university research project. Everything is recorded on camera. Suspicion about the research's underlying intentions for the recordings is aroused when one of the lovers commits suicide and Lucia becomes pregnant. With the recordings acting as a catalyst, the lovers question whether the information they first gave freely is now controlling them.'

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'2016 WINNER Grand Prize (Top Honor), Pacific Rim Book Festival

'2016 WINNER Best General Fiction, Pacific Rim Book Festival

'Lewis was a good-selling writer once, a mid-list writer, as they call them in the industry, basically one who sells enough books to keep on-board, but not so many he becomes rich out of it. But now that he is older, his books no longer sells, and his girlfriend is tired of being with someone who is always broke. When his publisher takes his next novel without an advance and insists on publishing it as an e-book only, Lewis is forced to take on a creative teaching job at the local community college to make ends meet. He meets a young woman writer filled with talent who begins to take over his mind and his life. At the crossroad of possibilities, Lewis must decide to continue with writing or give it up forever.'

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Crime-scene contractor Dr Kristina Melina is called to the homicide of a prostitute. The victim is her best friend from high school - the investigation becomes personal. She tries to track down the murder...before the murderer finds her. In a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, she gets too close to the truth and comes face-to-face with the killer for a final showdown.

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Brentwood, Los Angeles, 1995: Senator Trevor Garry is killed in the middle of night by an intruder. Young journalist Amanda Ryan is assigned to cover the case, but she is inexperienced and her drive gets her deeper into a world where lies rule and corruption is business as usual. When another politician is killed, Amanda is determined to find who is behind the murders. But as she gets closer to the truth, the killer turns his attention to the young journalist and will stop her at any cost before she uncovers his identity.

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'In the cold winter of Strasbourg, a medieval town in the North-East of France, 11-year-old Clotilde is living a quiet existence with her frail father, a Catholic priest. In the loneliness of her existence, she daydreams of literature and hot summers in Provence. When Clotilde's father dies, she self-destructs with wine, cigarettes and shaving blades. Her last chance for a normal life is to migrate to Australia and live with her mother who abandoned her at birth. She is forced into a strange land where nobody understands her and where her precocious attitude leads her to the shocking truth about her existence.'

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Independent film, billed as an 'adult romance'.

Traces the complicated relationships between Nathan, Lucia, Lorenzo, Tom, Walter, and Marilyn, through heartbreak and death.

Dr Kristina Melina is assigned to a case where a young girl has been killed and her body dumped by the side of well-know city lake. Back with her partner, Frank Moore, she tracks back the killing to the most unlikely suspect – in a cat-and-mouse game, she must get to him before he gets to her.

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Helen Santos is an investigator with a criminal research centre in Melbourne, Australia. One February night she becomes involved in an horrific murder; a man, Jeremy Wilson has just been decapitated and his wife savagely beaten. Aided by the widow, Helen proceeds to find the killer. Unfortunately this individual is already dead ...