JDR Screen

JDR Screen is a collaborative production company based at the Adelaide Studios in South Australia. Latest completed production was a series of 21 x 5min interstitials entitled The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke (writer Mark Thomson, director Rob Marchand) which screened on ABC TV in December 2014 with excellent ratings. The series won an ATOM Award in 20... 15. Recent joint ventures have been with director/co-producer Ben Pederick and Goodmorningbeautiful Films ( Ringbalin - Breaking the Drought and Ringbalin - River Stories, AFF and Festival of Ideas 2013, finalist SXSW 2014, Best Indigenous Resource ATOM Awards, 2014); with producer Claire Harris and Porthmeor Productions (Muriel Matters!, ABC TV and AFF 2013); and with director Jeni Lee (Magic Harvest, AFF 2011). Amongst our projects in development are: a documentary series exploring Australia's most puzzling cold cases; a factual series visiting some of the remote historic farm properties which form the backbone of Australia's outback communities; features Witching Hour (writer Alex Vickery-Howe); All Fall Down (writers Ruth Estelle and Pete Monaghan, director Ted Emery) and Quicksand (writers Ruth Estelle and Pete Monaghan); and interstitial factual series I Did it My Way, a series of small profiles of unstoppable everyday Australian artists doing what they love, asking the creative forces behind the weird and wonderful that simplest of questions: why?Read More