Wonderland Productions is a Sydney-based production company specializing in emotional stories that explore fascinating worlds and characters.  Through comedy, drama or documentary we aim to move, inspire and entertain.                                            

Films

THE PINK HOUSE

(Duration: 75 mins)

A feature documentary  by Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Claire Haywood.

With the oldest working brothel

in remote Kalgoorlie facing extinction, Madam Carmel and her longest serving sex worker BJ,  are bound together by the past, and by their precarious future.

World Premiere Sydney Film Festival June 2017. WINNER SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL BEST AUSTRALIAN DOCUMENTARY

Sales:  https://www.journeyman.tv/

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CHAN & DEE'S DRINK TANK

(Duration 14:37 mins)

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Beauty salon owner Chanel is feeling invisible at 50, so she creates her very own chat show. She enlists the help of her old school pals from Kinkytoppers Ladies College to co- host the show. But as the past catches up with Chanel and the set erupts in mayhem, Chan's dark roots are exposed.

Directed by Claire Haywood
Starring Helen O'Connor as Chanel
With Tracy Mann, Rhonda Doyle,Louise McCabe, Di Smith,  Linden Wilkinson, Suzie Dougherty, Deborah Galanos, Dina Panozzo, Sue Smithers, Nicole Warner and Emily Weare. Selected for Best Onlune Series in competition at Gold Coast Film Festival 2021and winner Indiefest Merit Award for Web Series and Women Filmmakers. .

Created by Helen O'Connor, Claire Haywood & Louise McCabe.

Written by Claire Haywood & Helen O'Connor. Directed by Claire Haywood.

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Television

KULKA

(Duration: 53 mins)

A bio-documentary about the life and times of Indigenous activist Gordon Briscoe. Directed by Claire Haywood. Produced by Kingston Anderson.

Commissioned by NITV.
Distributed by Ronin Films

https://www.roninfilms.com.au/

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TAXI SCHOOL SERIES

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(Duration 4 x 26 mins)

The fastest way to get ahead for new arrivals to Australia is to get behind the wheel of a taxi. Taxi School follows 4 students - refugees and migrants - as they face the emotional, linguistic and cultural challenges of migration.

Written and directed by Claire Haywood

Produced by Kingston Anderson

Broadcast and distributed by SBS 2009.

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DEBI MARSHALL INVESTIGATES: FROZEN LIES

           (Duration: 48 mins)

Investigative crime journalist Debi Marshall explores one of Australia’s unsolved murders - the case of the Lawyer in the Freezer. Is this case a gross miscarriage of justice which led to the lawyer’s execution, for which his lover David Szach spent years in jail?  Debi embarks on an investigation into a terrifying web of abductions, serial killings and cover-ups.

Created by Claire Haywood & Debi Marshall.

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Theatre

TABLE FOR ONE?

90 mins

Table for One? by Claire Haywood

Follows two couples over the course of a year as they stumble through the singles scene, from their pick ups to their break ups.  A comedy about sexual politics and the 'me' generation.

Performing rights enquires:  0419635356

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