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. Yvonne is the kind of supporting character that wins someone an AACTA. 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.¨