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Jump for Jordan
Donna Abela

Looking deep into the heart of Sydney and beyond, Jump for Jordan unpacks the experience common to countless second-generation Australians of being caught between two cultures. 

Kanye the First
Sam Steiner

Sam Steiner's Kanye the First is a dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West.

The Yellow Wave
Jane Miller

Soldier of fortune Philip Orloff and salt-of-the-earth Dick Hatten vie for the hand of stoic heroine Heather Cameron against a backdrop of invasion by a pair of Russian rail barons leading a Mongol force into the heart of Queensland.

Melbourne Talam
Rashma N Kalsie

Three young people see each other across a crowded Flagstaff station. They just missed the train. Now they wait. And think. They think about home: Punjab, Delhi, Hyderabad. And about how they just can't seem to get Melbourne's rhythm right. And of all the impossible things they must do to stay. And their time is running out.

Parasites
Ninna Tersman

Two teenagers fleeing unthinkable dangers find solace in each other amidst the damaging confines of an asylum seeker processing centre. Their new 'home' offers a kind of safety, but very little in the way of humanity, and less kindness.

Darwin, 1942: Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Mr Takahashi turns the lens upon Darwin’s multicultural and Indigenous women whose lives were forever changed by the bombings of February 19.

Lighten Up
Nicholas Brown, Sam McCool

John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams big, but his coloured contacts hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white. His mum wants John to marry a white Aussie woman, but he falls in love with Indigenous woman Sandy.

House + Amongst the Reeds: two plays
Somalia Seaton, Chinonyerem Odimba

Somalia Seaton's House is a play about family, culture clash, memory and truth. When Pat returns to her childhood home after a five-year absence, she's ready to forgive her mother for the neglect she suffered at her hands, but Mama isn't ready to let the demons back into her home.  In Chino Odimba's Amongst the Reeds, two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society. Oni and Gillian have made their home in a disused office block, finding ever…

Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi’s language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea.

Maggie Stone
Caleb Lewis

Maggie Stone is about loneliness and debt, the risk that comes from asking others for help and the cost of living a life owing nobody. 

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