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THUNDERSTONE

          THUNDERSTONE is a futuristic live-action adventure series
          from the makers of 'Ocean Girl'. THUNDERSTONE recently
          won the 1999 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and
          Television Arts) Award for Best International Program. This
          is an extraordinary achievement for world-leading Producer,
          Jonathan M. Shiff whose previous series OCEAN GIRL won
          the same award in 1998.

          This extraordinary children's series is a favourite with
          children all over the world who delight in the epic story, the
          engaging young cast and the exotic Australian outback
          locations. Most enthralling are dozens of superb animals
          featured throughout the series including lions, tigers,
          elephants, koalas and even rats!

          Spectacular sequences featuring the cast with Rhinos, Giraffes, Eland and other
          animals were filmed at Victoria's Open Range Zoo at Werribee and at the
          Melbourne Zoo. In the first series, a stunning sequence featuring Jeffrey and
          Rakhan, a Bengal Tiger was filmed at Dreamworld.

THUNDERSTONE 1 is an epic story of a future that might be.

          Fifteen year old NOAH DANIELS is a young scientist living in the underground
          colony of NORTH COL. Above ground the surface of the world freezes in the grip of
          a seemingly endless winter after the impact of the NEMESIS COMET has
          destroyed all other life including the world's animals.

          While accessing the virtual reality program in the NORTH COL Holodeck, NOAH
          accidentally time-travels into the future. He arrives in HAVEN, a time where the
          snow has thawed to reveal an exotic landscape. There he meets a tribe of young
          children known as NOMADS who live in hiding pursued by the evil warlord TAO and
          his band of PROTECTORS.

          Escaping TAO, NOAH and ARUSHKA, leader of the
          NOMADS, time-travel to present day where they see real
          animals for the first time. ARUSHKA passionately commits to
          saving the animals and persuades NOAH to help her bring
          them forward in time to HAVEN.

          But the arrival of the animals angers TAO, and upsets his
          master plan of mining THUNDERSTONE, the all-powerful new
          mineral which the comet brought to the Earth.

          NOAH and the NOMADS must fight a deadly battle with TAO
          to stop him possessing THUNDERSTONE, dominating the
          new world and destroying the animals - once lost forever but
          now saved by NOAH and ARUSHKA.

          THUNDERSTONE 2 takes up the story when NOAH returns from NORTH COL to
          the future and to his friends the NOMADS. Together they must find a way of
          breaking the drought which threatens the animals of HAVEN as they fight a
          mysterious FAMILY led by the enigmatic MYAH whose interest in time-travel and
          the mineral THUNDERSTONE isn't at all that it seems. Finally NOAH and his
          friends face the toughest task of all - to change history itself.

          In the third series of THUNDERSTONE (currently in production in Melbourne,
          Australia) Rebel teenagers from an Earth colony on the planet E Delta draw NOAH
          into a battle against his own destiny. NOAH and ARUSHKA are faced with their
          biggest challenge yet - to save not one, but two worlds.

Duration: 52 x half hour series

                                      From
                          Jonathan M. Shiff Productions Pty. Ltd.
                               Created and Produced by
                                  Jonathan M. Shiff

                                     Cast
                               NOAH - Jeffrey Walker
                               ARUSHKA - Mereoni Vuki
                                CHIP - Daniel Daperis
                          SUNDANCE / SUTCH - Damien Fotiou
                            GENEVA - Anna-Grace Hopkins
                                 BECKY - Kate Keltie
                              KWAN - Nathan Wentworth
                            DR PRETORIUS - Gerard Kennedy
                                 TAO - Stuart Halusz
                                JETT - Elena Mandalis
                                  LIZ - Nikki Coghill
                               SIMON - Andrew Larkins
                              MYAH - Leeanna Walsman
                               RORDEN - Wayne Hope
                                 LYAL - Brad Flynn
                               TOD - Fletcher Humphrys
                               MONSOON - Bob Hornery

Directed by
Colin Budds, Mark DeFriest and Julian McSwiney

Story Editor
Keith Aberdein / Michael Joshua

Associate Story Editor
Michael Joshua

Music by
Garry McDonald and Lawrence Stone

Production Designer
Julie Belle / Michael Rumpf

Director of Photography
Ron Hagen

Casting
Jo Rippon

Costume Designer
Alban Farrawell

Financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation Limited

Developed and Produced with the Assistance of Film Victoria

Produced in Association with Network Ten Australia

              Sales Enquiries:
               French & German speaking World:
               Tele Images
               64 Rue Pierre Charron, Paris, 75008, France
               Tel: 33.1.44.35.17.38 Fax: 33.1.42.25.77.56
               Rest of World:
               Beyond Distribution Pty Ltd
               53-55 Brisbane Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia.
               Tel: 61-2-9281 1266 Fax: 61-2-9281 1153

(I got this information from the homepage of Jonathan M. Shiff productions.)

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