Appledore Films
Appledore is a creative collective of writers, directors, producers, musicians
– and a dog.
We are dedicated to crafting beautiful, compelling and inspiring stories and bringing them vividly to life on screen.
Current Projects
OUT
Three teenage Afghan women cricketers escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan on foot through the mountains, pursued by morality police, fathers and irate fiancés, to reach freedom in Australia – where they can finally play the game they love.
Sports drama/political thriller/great escape/coming of age. Bend It Like Beckham meets Argo
Now listed on the Black List
MIMESIS
When a brilliant Palestinian linguistics graduate steals an Israeli passport and assumes a dead man’s identity to escape the West Bank for New York, his imperfect impersonation unravels as the lies multiply and the bodies pile up—turning his American dream into a darkly comic nightmare where every deception demands another victim.
Identity-theft thriller/dark comedy/political satire. Fargo meets The Talented Mr Ripley
Now listed on the Black List
MIRRORS
A short animated film.
Life and death, war and peace, seen through a mirror.
The life of a family – its joys, its ordinary rhythms, its violent erasure — is witnessed entirely through the surface of a mirror: when only a young girl survives bombing and displacement, she carries the broken mirror into an afterlife of her own imagining, where the final reflection she finds is herself.
DREAM HOUSE
Supernatural thriller series
THE GAFFER
Crime – The Godfather with waves
MONTAGE
by the Martin Brothers