The Search for Weng Weng

Set sometime in the not-too-distant future, after the worldwide crisis of 2020, Mandy is a 17-year-old Filipino Australian. In her final year of high school and dealing with her parents impending divorce, she navigates a world driven by a new normal of isolation and fear. Added to this she has a crush on her tutor Serena. Meanwhile, a young girl from the backstreets of Manila tells her story.

An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.

Decades after his career as a tobacco advertising icon, Bryan Burns’ life is in ruins. After his mother dies of lung cancer, he is tormented by a talking cigarette on an anti-smoking billboard. He snaps and transforms into the Ribspreader, a killer stalking the city, extinguishing smokers and cutting out their lungs to make his macabre smoking jacket.

The outrageous true story of Australian cartoonist and punk rocker, Fred Negro, creator of PUB, the cartoon strip that chronicled the history of the St Kilda music scene that spawned the likes of Nick Cave and The Birthday Party and his own controversial shock-rock band, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY.

A wannabe Australian film director travels to Ghana to produce his dream film, a kung-fu remake of The Harder They Come with Ghanian action sensation, Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah.

FILM SAFARI GHANA explores Australian critic and filmmaker Andrew Leavold’s obsession with the work of Ghanaian action movie sensation Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah. Journeying to Kumasi to meet his hero, Andrew is soon acting in the starring-role of Ninja's slavery-themed action movie, WHITE DEVIL. Witness the birth of a partnership between two of the world's most maverick directors as they hatch a plan to reteam in Ghana to shoot Leavold’s dream-film, a four-foot kung-fu remake of THE HARDER THEY COME.

TEDDY PAGE (real name Teddy Chiu) is one of my favourite trash film directors. Throughout the 1980s he made some of the most entertaining, low-budget, explosive action jungle films you will ever see. With the help of certified Weng Wengologist and Filipino film expert ANDREW LEAVOLD ("The Search For Weng Weng"), I explore the English language action films tha Teddy churned out between 1983-1995.

90 minutes of the most demented African DIY movie mayhem: demons, witches, ninjas, midget gangsters and Antichrists, Ghanan Terminators and crap-CGI Spidermen run amok in a journey upriver into the dark heart of African Z-grade cinema.