2517 – in a Life Extension cryonics facility, Jason, a young, rugged former government jackal, wakes from a 500 year cryostasis to find society split between technology (the New World) and fanaticism (the Old World).
Jason carries a deadly virus that will kill him within a month unless he can raise money for the medicine that will cure him. To raise the funds he must venture into the Old World territory of the fanatics to retrieve gold he stashed away before his cryostasis.
He recruits the help of his young Life Extension guide Katie to travel the Old World and retrieve the gold. But Jason's presence in the Old World is noticed by the cult's King, who gives the strange orders to his guards that finding Jason is the highest priority.
When back in the New World, Jason and Katie are increasingly targeted by Old World assassins who stand in the way of Jason receiving his medicine.
With the Old World closing in on Jason and Katie, they must survive the attacks and figure out why they are being targeted, before Jason's clock runs out.
Life Extension is a sci-fi action-thriller about one man's quest for a second chance at life being interfered with by religion vs science.
The Secret Archipelagos is a thriller about a young reporter's determination to uncover the truth.
Lauren is a young journalist from Sydney who's stuck covering the dog-on-a-skateboard kind of story. That is until her big break arrives when her editor Jerry sends her to Darwin to take over an assignment from senior journalist Fraser King. Lauren finds Fraser running scared – he only hands her a map and tells her, "There's something out there that shouldn't be there."
Lauren charters a plane and flies out into Australia's northern archipelagos to find an island filled with drug crops and a large freighter ship in what should be a deserted national park. When she arrives back in Darwin, Lauren is interrogated by an American man, Steven, who seems to know what she was looking for.
Back in Sydney, Fraser tells Lauren that Australia's northern archipelagos are infested with South-East Asian crime. Later that night Jerry finds Fraser dead – killed by gunshot wounds.
Steven tries to convince Lauren that the pilot made a mistake by flying into Indonesian territory and all she saw were Indonesian farmers. Not convinced, Lauren tracks Steven and discovers that he's an ASIS agent. She investigates, finding that the patrols that should be happening in the national park have stopped and the people she saw working the islands are asylum seekers who are trading six months labour for passage to Australia. Some of whom don't make it, as the freighter ship is an organ-harvesting ship run by a Cuban criminal.
As Lauren tries to find out what's going on and why it's being covered up, she is increasingly targeted by Steven who is hell-bent on stopping her. With people involved in the story starting to turn up dead, Lauren struggls to find out the truth about who's involved and why.
Archipelagos is a thriller of cat-and-mouse intrigue, self-doubt, escalating danger, resolve, and lethal repercussions as a result of a young reporter's determination to uncover a conspiracy that will shake a nation.
One hour television series (with potential for feature length screenplay).
When a passenger jet crashes on approach to Sydney Airport, the National Safety Board (NSB) recalls their most experienced investigator, Jack Brennan, to lead the accident investigation team.
Believing the event to be the work of terrorists, the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) reassigns psychologist and human factors specialist Sam Taylor to the NSB. ASIO plans to use the accident as political justification for a military assault on extremist groups active in the region.
Jack soon discovers that the pilots shut down the wrong engine in response to an engine failure, however he and his team are at a loss to explain how this could happen. A flaw in the plane's turbine blades suggests that the engine design may have been at fault. Unfortunately the engineer who worked on the engines on their arrival in the country has secretly been flown to engine manufacturers' head offices in Canada.
As the investigation escalates, Sam uncovers vital information about the First Officer's eyesight which he failed to disclose for fear of losing his title of 'poster boy' with the airline. She now knows how a contact lens downed a multi-million dollar passenger jet.
Vince Bailey
Vince G Bailey works as a Medical Scientist in haematology and transfusion medicine at the Launceston General Hospital. He began creative writing in 2003 with his first script being a science fiction idea based on the Captain Scarlet characters created by Gerry Anderson.
In 2006, he wrote a television series pilot called Accident Investigation which was a Top 16 finalist in the second series of Australian Project Greenlight.
In 2008, a short play entitled The Russian Bride was performed at Short & Sweet, Melbourne, and also shortlisted for the Sydney arm of the same festival. He attended the Screen Tasmania sponsored Arista Development Workshop by Stephen Cleary with his fourth feature script, a horror piece entitled Iceman.
In 2009, a second play, The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe, was accepted internationally by the Short & Sweet franchise and performed in Singapore.
Also in 2009, a short film script entitled Tahune's Beast was shortlisted in the top 13 from an international field at the Australian Night of Horror International Film Festival and went on to premiere at the Dungog Film Festival that same year.
As well as writing feature scripts, Vince has also authored numerous short film scripts and continues to write original works, concentrating on both short film and short play ideas across many genres to refine and improve his writing skills.
Until now, George Stillman has led an uncomplicated life. His wife, Claire, is the perfect wife and mother while his daughter, Sarah, is off to enjoy a gap year in Paris. On a morning like any other, George notices part-time office worker and art student Jessie Turrell drop a book in the car park. Inside the book, he finds a nude drawing of her that is both exquisite and erotic.
When his boss berates him at the office, George storms out of the only job he has ever known. Soon after, George is devastated to learn he has a terminal brain tumor. Unable to tell Claire, he believes the only way to spare her is to leave her. He rents a small apartment and sets out to finish the novel he abandoned after he and Claire were married.
A dangerous friendship with Jessie soon develops. At a gallery showing off her artwork, Jessie's jealous boyfriend Manni warns George to stay away. Later, in George's apartment, Jessie kisses him. Torn and confused, George pulls away. However, as the days pass, he cannot get Jessie out of his head and goes to her apartment to apologise.
When Manni finds out, he is furious with Jessie, believing that she had slept with George. In a fit of rage, he viciously attacks George. Following the assault and racked with guild, George seeks out Claire's forgiveness. She's furious that he didn't trust her enough to tell her about his condition and even more hurt that he turned to Jessie.
Although George burnt his novel when he returned home, Claire finds an unfinished draft on his laptop after his death. She attempts to give it to Jessie but she won't accept it. Jessie knows that George wrote his words for Claire not her. Claire realises that Jessie is right. As she leaves for Paris with Sarah, she takes with her a part of George that she will always cherish – his One Million Words.
Vince Bailey
Vince G Bailey works as a Medical Scientist in haematology and transfusion medicine at the Launceston General Hospital. He began creative writing in 2003 with his first script being a science fiction idea based on the Captain Scarlet characters created by Gerry Anderson.
In 2006, he wrote a television series pilot called Accident Investigation which was a Top 16 finalist in the second series of Australian Project Greenlight.
In 2008, a short play entitled The Russian Bride was performed at Short & Sweet, Melbourne, and also shortlisted for the Sydney arm of the same festival. He attended the Screen Tasmania sponsored Arista Development Workshop by Stephen Cleary with his fourth feature script, a horror piece entitled Iceman.
In 2009, a second play, The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe, was accepted internationally by the Short & Sweet franchise and performed in Singapore.
Also in 2009, a short film script entitled Tahune's Beast was shortlisted in the top 13 from an international field at the Australian Night of Horror International Film Festival and went on to premiere at the Dungog Film Festival that same year.
As well as writing feature scripts, Vince has also authored numerous short film scripts and continues to write original works, concentrating on both short film and short play ideas across many genres to refine and improve his writing skills.
A couple of backpackers who are both running away from their past meet and hit it off in Buenos Aires. Gloria is a girl 'acting' her way through life so that she doesn't have to face any real pain. Hassin is a boy who is yet to graduate to a man, a boy with Peter Pan syndrome. Two days after they meet (and with each of their holidays winding up) they decide to move to a new city, where no one knows their name, rather than return to their real life.
Four years later any intimacy they once shared has long since departed. Now, they're forced to co-exist as roommates until Gloria receives her Australian residency. With only months left before they part ways, Gloria goes alone to a doctor's appointment and discovers that she has terminal lung cancer with a diagnosis of 30 days maximum to live.
Unwilling to complicate their relationship any further, Gloria decides not to tell Hassin about her illness, and instead tells him their relationship's over and she needs to go home. Hassin welcomes the news of their break-up but wants to say goodbye to her where they met – in Buenos Aires.
On their journey to Buenos Aires, they experience a re-awakening of their love for one another and Hassin is left to decide if parting ways is really what he wants, while Gloria wrestles with the decision of whether to tell him about her terminal illness.