Is Your House Killing You? - SBS

SBS TV series 2007 November - Australia

A high-rating prime-time 7×26min factual entertainment science series for SBS in 2007, as a co-production with Essential Viewing, sold to UKTV, Sundance Channel USA and TVNZ.

Is Your House Killing You? is a groundbreaking, on the pulse, scientific makeover series. Ordinary families are invited to take up the challenge to ‘detox’ their homes. From inner city apartments to country fibros, our expert team swarms, probes and strips back a diverse range of homes in a CSI-style investigation. Some homes sparkle innocently and others are environmental monsters, but they all harbour a parallel microscopic world of hidden dangers.

Is Your House Killing You? Episode 1

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Is Your House Killing You? Episode 3

Is Your House Killing You? Episode 4

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Is Your House Killing You? Episode 6

Is Your House Killing You? Episode 7

Is Your House Killing You? trailer

In 2007 IYHKY was one of SBS’s highest rating shows in its time slot, sold to Sundance Channel USA, UKTV, TVNZ and in several other territories globally.

Director Jennifer Lyons-Reid and producer Carl Kuddell from Tallstoreez Productionz created the concept and formed a co-production with Essential Viewing in Sydney, to produce the first-ever South Australian factual format series series with the financial support from the SAFC.

Key creatives for Is Your House Killing You:

Executive Producer: Chris Hilton
Producer: Carl Kuddell
Series Producer: Sonja Armstrong
Series Director: Roger Power
Episode director and science producer: Jen Lyons-Reid
Series concept: Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Chris Hilton

© 2007 Tallstoreez Productionz Pty Ltd, Essential Viewing and SA Film Corporation

Love Referendum - Adelaide Fringe

Love Referendum - public art game 2007 March - SA

Developed as an interactive alternative reality game ARG for the public realm, the initial phase included a series of video clips, viral postcards and an interactive website. Is Adelaide in the grip of a potentially fatal pandemic called lovesickness…?

Has it become a sentimental slave to romance or a slick metropolis for the cool and uncaring? In an urgent call to action, the Department of Deliberation is conducting a statewide referendum in December 2007.

It will ask the public to decide whether they are lovestruck or lovesick. Results will be tallied and citizens will be officially (and spectacularly) notified during opening night of the 2008 Adelaide Fringe.

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Artistic Director - Jennifer Lyons-Reid

Producer - Carl Kuddell

Game development mentor - Christy Dena

Graphic design - Working Images, Drew Joyce

Love Referendum was supported by Arts SA Public Art

Partners

Adelaide City Council

Arts SA

dreamcatcher - Adelaide Fringe

dreamcatcher - Adelaide Fringe multmedia project 2007 February - SA

An art exhibition, public mobile video projection, provocative art interventions, a limited series of 20 unique resin sculptures and 2000 postcards competition across South Australia.

Marvel at the sheer beauty of a dancing plastic bag, the most ‘beautiful thing’ on a magical flight through the City of Adelaide. It twirls to a modern Pied Piper’s tune, peddling imperishable dreams and subtly transforms the City’s structures, leaving behind small icons of suburban utopia.

Dreamcatcher is testament to our capacity to see beauty in the mundane and dangerous, and just when you think its over, the bag lifts again, sporting its insignia: Eternity.

Dreamcatcher sculptures

Grotesque yet strangely alluring… Recent archaeological digs in Adelaide [code named dreamcatcher] have uncovered several petrified objects from an epoch which the Dreamcatcher Museum have classified as ‘Oil Age: Plastic Era’. The objects appear to be flimsy plastic vessels. Historians believe they were used for trade and exchange and were probably associated with human sacrifice and mass rituals.

The limited series of 20 unique sculptures, lusciously translucent and seductively textural, are made from plastic bags - stamped with Eternity - each manipulated and set in a large block of glassy resin, with its own custom made iron stand, labeled with the work’s edition number. 10 sculptures were publicly auctioned as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2007, raising funds for SA students clean up the beaches and remove plastic bags from the ocean.

If you are interested to buy one of the remaining artworks or want to exhibit the work, please email us

Commissioned for the Surface Tension Public Art Program of the Adelaide City Council and Australian Network for Art & Technology; as part of the 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Partners

Adelaide Fringe

Zero Waste SA

ANAT Surface Tension

Adelaide City Council

Document Your World at AIDC

Australian International Documentary Conference - 2007 February - Adelaide SA

The Hero Project team worked with 15 youth finalist from the national Document Your World competition, hosted by the Australian International Documentary Conference AIDC in February 2007.
The Hero Project mentored the youth teams to prepare their film proposals as a public pitch. This first ever youth-documentary competition saw entries from across Australia, vying for the change to pitch in front of a panel of commissioning editors from ABC and SBS, IDFA’s Director, the Australian Children’s TV Foundation and executives from the media industry.

The events MC was Steve Cannane, from Triple J’s Hack, judges included Amanda Duthie (ABC TV), Carl Kuddell and Jen Lyons-Reid (Tallstoreez), Bernadette O’Mahoney (ACTF), Aimee Knight, Warrick Burton (SBSi) and Magda Estetima (IDFA Amsterdam).

Pitch Introduction

Pitch 1 - LOL

Pitch 2 - Artists Not Aliens

Pitch 3 - The Oo in Pinnaroo

Pitch 4 - In Our Shows

Pitch 5 Legends of Quorn

Q&A + Thankyou

AIDC Podcasts

The 5 finalist teams from Whyalla, Quorn, Murray Bridge, Pinnaroo and Adelaide prepared a 5-minute verbal pitch and a 2-minute video trailer for their documentary proposals – in 2 days they prepared, wrote, test-pitched, shot and edited the most amazing public presentations – feedback from the panel and audience was that it was the best presentations at AIDC that year…

The participants delivered very compelling presentations. In front of over 100 experts and a high-caliber panel from ABC, SBS, Tallstoreez and ACTF, they held their own. Stories included: LoL: Cyberbullying, the Oo in Pinnaroo, Life in Quorn, Artists not Aliens and Nunga Media.

The winner was ‘LoL’, a documentary about cyberbullying; the team won a development purse of $5000 from ABC jtv, to develop a half-hour documentary proposal.
The runner-up was ‘Oo in Pinnaroo’; who were approached by ABC to produce a 10-part mini-series, mentored by the Hero Project.

The teams also produced a series of short clips during the conference for AIDC, interviewing documentary makers and broadcasters about film making and key points of the conference. The clips were shown on huge screens on the same day  they were shot. It was fabulous to see the 15 Document Your World heroes mingling with the pro-crowd and gleaning valuable intel.

Partners

ABC JTV

Apple

Arts SA Health Promotion through the Arts

Australian Childrens Television Foundation

Australian International Documentary Conference

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund