Transmission Films is pleased to announce it has acquired rights to JCVD, fresh from opening the Midnight Madness section of the 2008 Toronto Film Festival.

Transmission is proud to announce Charlie & Boots starring Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson as a father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfil their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia’s northern tip. The comedy, to shoot later this year, is written by Strange Bedfellows writers Dean Murphy and Stewart Faichney and will be produced by Shana Levine, David Redman and Dean Murphy.

Transmission and Footprint Films will work together again on Footprint’s upcoming titles BALIBO and MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX:

MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX

One family. One year. No Sex. What else is there? Try shopping, singing, sport, storage solutions, Santa, the stock market, spiritual stuff …

A wry look at twelve months from the award-winning writer-director of Look Both Ways, Sarah Watt.

BALIBO

Anthony Lapaglia plays war correspondent Roger East in BALIBO, the incredible true story of the 1975 murders of five Australian Journalists.  BALIBO is a powerful political thriller about the struggle for the truth, directed by Robert Connolly (THE BANK) and written by Connolly and David Williamson.

Both titles will release in 2009.