Series 1: 8 x 1 minute episodes

Angie, Eddie and Mia are best friends who live on Stickie Street. Their loveable dog, Ruffles, is always nearby wanting to join in! They all love learning, playing and solving problems together, and having a lot of fun while they do it. Meet the Stickie Gang!

EPISODE 1 – Counting By Twos
Whilst The Stickie Gang attempt to deliver a party invitation to their friend Jack, there’s a problem: every second house number on Stickie Street is missing! How will they solve the mystery of the runaway numbers?

EPISODE 2 – Sorting 2D Shapes
Angie, Eddie & Mia design their very own clubhouse, only to discover that shapes are hidden everywhere! Can you find the triangle, square and rectangle?

EPISODE 3 – Identifying 2D Shapes
In their very first Quiz Show, The Stickie Gang friends try their best to listen to the clues and name-the-shape before the buzzer sounds!

EPISODE 4 – Identifying 3D Objects
From spheres to cylinders to cubes to prisms, Angie and Eddie discover some new words as Mia turns everyday games into exploring the world of mathematical language. Even Ruffles the dog gets involved!

EPISODE 5 – Days of the Week
Whilst getting a snack at the local corner store, The Stickie Gang explore the days in the week and try not to get confused talking about yesterday, today and tomorrow.

EPISODE 6 – Months of the Year
As the gang help Eddie prepare for his dad’s birthday, Mia drops her calendar and it becomes mixed up! Mia, Eddie and Angie figure out the months of the year as they talk about birthdays, celebrations and holidays. And Ruffles the dog gets excited as he helps too!

EPISODE 7 – Times of the Day
What’s your favourite time of day? Play time? Snack time? Reading time? The Stickie Gang enjoy talking about what they like to do at their favourite times of day.

EPISODE 8 – Grouping & Measuring
Angie, Eddie and Mia learn to share out their snacks at a birthday party. Whilst they’re trying to be equal and fair, Ruffles the dog has another idea for the ideal snack.

8 x 24 minutes + additional content

Five passionate students have been recruited by Project Planet to lead their schools into a more sustainable future.

Project Planet’s champion, Lawrence Gunatilaka, introduces the five Waste Warriors who will steer their three schools on the individual missions that have been set for them.

At Fremantle College in Western Australia, Waste Warrior Sinon has the mission of reducing food waste. He imagines the possibilities of bringing the school vege patch back to life, with students growing their own food.

At Berry Springs Primary School in the Northern Territory, the focus is on water: a finite and precious resource. Waste Warriors Jenny, Max and Jayden will stop water wastage and promote renewable energies. Jenny, Jayden and Max develop a solar-powered automated irrigation system for the school garden.

And at Taroona High School in Tasmania, Waste Warrior Freida is set the task to break the waste cycle and follow the 5 Rs: to Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Renew and Recycle. Each “R” has a project team with a planned activity to achieve results.

Lawrence calls in on the Waste Warriors every few weeks to see how they’re progressing with their tasks.

And each week, the Warriors are set an extra challenge.

In episode one, it’s to reduce their class landfill to an amount that would fit in a small glass jar; another week it’s to get the message out about an endangered local native species.

Their extra challenges arrive in a purple box and there’s always a USB stick to plug in, with a message revealing this week’s task.

Throughout the series, the Waste Warriors are supported by relevant experts, who come in with advice and practical assistance to help them succeed in their major mission.

There are relevant facts and statistics along the way, as well as interviews with – and reactions from – the Waste Warriors. They have to clean toilets with natural ingredients and use recycled materials to build a watering system. There are experiments and a whole lot of team work as our Waste Warriors set their sights on changing their fellow students’ attitudes.

“It actually feels pretty cool being a Waste Warrior – it’s like being a superhero,” says Jayden from Berry Springs Primary School.

“I think it would be so cool if we could help change people’s minds,” reflects Freida, from Taroona High School.

Sinon from Fremantle College is both realistic and optimistic about this team’s task: “It’s going to take a lot of time and it’s going to take a lot of effort and it’s going to be hard for all of us, but I think we can do it.”

Project Planet: Saving the earth one school at a time.

1 x 1’40 seconds
3 x 30 seconds

The Office of the Advocate for Children and Young People (ACYP) undertook focus groups with 202 children and young people in seven schools across NSW. The findings from these focus groups was confirmed through an online poll of a further 1,000 children and young people.

The focus groups and polling found that children and young people conceptualise violence as physical, emotional and sexual and that it can happen to anyone, not just certain types of children and young people. Overwhelmingly, children and young people reported that violence against children and young people takes place anywhere and everywhere – both in private and in public spaces, in “safe places” and “even with people you trust.”

In 2017 The Office of ACYP commissioned Emerald Films to produce a campaign video that showed true to life (but fictionalised) examples of the types of violence they experience and the settings violence occurs. This information was central to the development of the campaign video, which highlights true examples and the impacts of violence against children. The child actors in this video did not witness any of the depicted ‘violence’ – the video was filmed in a way that did not necessitate them being on set during those scenes.

Series 1: 26 x 24 minutes

Series 2: 26 x 24 minutes

Produced by Emerald Films’ sister company Air Pig Productions. An official Aus-Irish co-production

Drop Dead Weird follows the hilarious antics of an Australian family who move to Tubbershandy, an isolated seaside village in Western Ireland. The Champs move to Ireland to save the family B&B, as the bank is threatening to sell and local identity Bunni Shanahan is ready to take over.

With three ‘fish-out-of-water’ Aussie kids, one kooky Irish grandfather and two recently zombified parents, running a B&B in a remote seaside Irish village, things are going to get weird… DROP DEAD WEIRD!

The three Aussie siblings – Lulu, Bruce and Frankie – are finding it hard enough fitting into a new hometown, but now they have to harbour an enormous secret. Their parents are zombies! Yes, ZOMBIES. We’re talking seriously undead with limited vocabularies and really terrible skin.

The three siblings must invent on a daily, or even hourly basis, a way to keep the truth under wraps or Bunni Shanahan will be on to them. Their schemes, ideas and unexpected twists of fate are a constant source of adventure and hilarity.

“I don’t’ know exactly what my future will hold, or what my future will be…”

17-year-old Makiita is an extraordinary girl with a remarkable story about how in a moment your life can change.

In 2012 Makiita was driving to school and all she remembers is stopping at a T-intersection and seeing a truck indicating to turn. Unfortunately for the 17-year-old, the truck didn’t turn- it T-boned her car at speed. While Makiita doesn’t recall much she had severe injuries and required a range of different rehabilitation services, education support, equipment and care to help in her on-going recovery and rehabilitation. It was then that icare lifetime care stepped in to be there for Makiita and her family.

Makiita is still recovering and regaining her independence. Icare will be there for Makiita, for life.

Icare lifetime care supports over 1,100 people severely injured in motor accidents in NSW.

Series 1: 32 x 5min episodes, 4 x half hour themed episodes
Produced by Emerald’s sister company Air Pig Productions

We live in a beautiful country, with truly amazing kids. They might be super smart or amazingly sporty. They might have a head for robotics or a heart for culture. They might make stories, or pictures, or dream of a shiny future. In five minutes it is amazing what you can find out about some of Australia’s finest young hearts, minds, spirits and souls.

This Is Me showcases thirty-two extraordinary kids ages 9-16, in an entertaining, factual, short-form format. Each story has a little drama, humour, adventure, energy and wonder. The young adults have a variety of interests and passions, come from vastly different backgrounds and dream a diversity of dreams about their futures. There are environmentalists, artists and academics. There are cultural custodians, community activists and sporting enthusiasts. There are deep thinkers, passionate doers and committed makers.

The series allows young Australians to share their experiences with the world as well as their thoughts about their life, friends and family. This Is Me is the kids stories in their words, from their worlds: a vibrant snapshot of Australian childhoods.

Season 1: 13 x 26 minutes + additional content
Produced by Emerald Films’ sister company: Air Pig Productions

6 WEEKS. ONE MISSION. TURN 8 TEENAGE ROOKIES INTO MARINE EXPERTS

Hailing from Ireland and Australia our international team of Rookies are thrown in the deep end to learn how to care for rescued marine animals. Their hard work culminates in the showcasing of the Rookies’ own conservation messages.

Throughout their journey the Rookies experience the highs and lows of working with marine animals: from assisting with emergency seal, turtle and dolphin rescues and releases to the not so glamorous job of preparing fish buckets and cleaning seal poop at 6am in the morning.

Blue Zoo is packed to the gills with life-changing adventures, life-long friendships and has the Rookies tackling global conservation issues head on.

1 x 55 min documentary

Stranger in the Family invites viewers to share the lives of three Australian families for a year, as they manage children with autism, a disorder that affects one in every 500 children born each year. Autism occurs in all social and ethnic groups. Until recently, most autistic children were institutionalised because they were considered ‘unreachable’. Two of the families in this film have two children with the disorder. Having one autistic child increases the chances of having a second one. All the children attend Giant Steps, a special school using a holistic one-on-one therapy that originated in Canada.

1 x 55 min documentary

A character-driven journey of courage, cunning and suspense about the African National Congress’s most successful and secret mission to smuggle guns into South Africa during Apartheid. In the early 1980s a company called ‘Africa Hinterland’ was created by the exiled operatives of the African National Congress. The company took tourists on sight-seeing trips across the border into South Africa. Unbeknown to the tourists — mostly Australians and New Zealanders — under the seats of the truck were specially-designed secret compartments housing military arms and explosives destined for the frontline of the ANC’s military arm as it fought to end the notorious apartheid system. The ‘Africa Hinterland’ operation made some 40 trips across the treacherous South African border loaded with a tonne of weapons each journey and were never caught.

1 x 55 min documentary

This is not a film about Elvis impersonators or the hidden whereabouts of the King of Rock ‘n Roll, but rather the vast legions of ordinary fans out there whose undying, unapologetic loyalty to Elvis Presley has become a baffling phenomenon which promises to travel and flourish for decades. Warm, funny and sometimes blisteringly personal, this film follows a pilgrimage of hardcore Elvis fans from Australia to Graceland. Interwoven with the journey of the fans, we meet a procession of nobodies, somebodies and insiders who give us their own spin on the Elvis dream factory. Larry Geller, hairstylist and spiritual advisor to the King, perhaps explains the magic best. Elvis felt he owed his fans everything, and he gave them his best. In taking care of his fans, some 20 years on, they’re taking care of him.