Tam Sainsbury

SYNOPSIS

Time & Place is a drama/comedy web series about a 30-something year old magazine writer, Rebecca Woodruff, who returns, with her six year old daughter and husband, to the small coastal town of Golden Beach where she grew up and back to her chaotic family after living abroad for many years.
The Woodruff family consists of Rebecca’s divorced mum & dad Alice & Eddie, her mum’s  partner Liz, her sister Katie, brother-in-law Ben and children Emily & Ashley and her wildly single brother Oli. They are all thrilled at Rebecca’s return and it isn't long before Rebecca realises how much she has missed her family and maybe this is the time and the place she needs to be. However, Rebecca’s husband is not interested in staying so Rebecca must now decide what the best path is for her to take. If she chooses to stay she will be forced to face a dark secret she has kept to herself for the past six years. Through conflict, hardships, struggles and hope, Time & Place creates a sense of drama yet takes the audience on a journey from relationship chaos to down to earth family love, friendship and support.

CAST

The lead role of Rebecca Woodruff is being played by Lara Cox from Heartbreak High, All Saints, H2O Just Add Water and most recently she played Alf’s daughter Quinn on Home & Away.

Veteran Australian screen actor and Logie award winner Tracy Mann will play the mum & family matriarch Alice Woodruff.

Lee Carseldine (Survivor runner up 2016) will play Luke, the mystery guy on the beach who catches Rebecca's eye.

American actor Jeff Gannon from Malibu Shark Attack, Suing the Devil and A Perfect Life will play Rebecca’s husband Rick.

Rebecca’s sister Katie Woodruff will be played by Bree Desborough from Home & Away. 

WRITER/DIRECTOR 

The writer/director of Time & Place is Tam Sainsbury. Since graduating from the University of Surrey in London 17 years ago with a degree in film and television she has worked in several countries on feature films, news programs, documentaries, advertisements and television shows. Her previous work includes writing, producing and directing the feature film Mind Fire (starring Rowena Wallace, Peter Sumner, Conrad Coleby and Lara Cox) plus numerous short films, the most recent being Pinky Promise. This film debuted internationally at the Richard Harris Film Festival in Ireland late last year and recently won the Silver Award at Cinemafest in New York and will screen shortly at the film festival in Atlanta Georgia USA. Tam is a member of the Australian Directors Guild (ADG), Australian Writers Guild (AWG) and The Writers Guild Of America (WGA). More information on Tam Sainsbury is available at www.tamsainsbury.com.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Director of Photography is Paul Webb who over the past 20 years has worked with some of the world's leading production companies and networks on Emmy, BAFTA and Logie nominated and winning shows. Some of these include Survivor, My Kitchen Rules, Big Brother, House Rules, 60 Minutes, The Voice, Biggest Loser, The Force, Australian Cricket Tour, Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games, Grand Prix etc etc. Throughout the past 20 years he has received six awards from the Australian Cinematographers Society (Bronze, Silvers and Gold) for his work on Australian television.

PRODUCER

Dylan Schenkeveld brings a wealth of talent from years on American Survivor (nine series) and a multitude of feature films shot in New Zealand, Vancouver and Australia. He has worked on the past two series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (the UK and German versions) and produced feature film Mind Fire. He also produced the recent short film Pinky Promise that won the Silver Award at  Cinemafest in New York. 

BACKGROUND FROM THE WRITER/DIRECTOR

The premise to this series was inspired by some fabulous Australian drama comedies such as Packed to the Rafters, Offspring, 800 Words, The Secret Life of Us, House Husbands etc…..all shows that centre around family and relationships and tell stories in sincere and honest ways and have us going back for more week after week.
When I first realised how popular web series were becoming I searched for one that was based along the lines of these type of Australian dramadies and I couldn’t find one so that is when Time & Place was born. I want to provide a weekly web series for those viewers who love these type of shows and for any viewer who simply wishes to escape and become immersed in the drama that surrounds the everyday lives of the Woodruff’s.

Filming is not a cheap businesses but we are doing everything as carefully and economically as possible to make sure our dollars go as far as possible in order to provide a high quality finished product. We are very lucky to have a lot of talented and experienced people from the film and TV industry working on this series who are dedicating their time and efforts 'in-kind' as they believe this is a worthy production that has the potential to be highly successful. However there are some expenses that cannot be avoided and these essential costs are what we are raising funds to cover. These include: 

Equipment hire including cameras, lighting and audio

Catering to feed the actors and crew

Wardrobe, make up, props and continuity

Transport expenses for actors and crew

Location hire

Editing including colouring, audio mastering and music.

Pozible is an all or nothing platform. Because of this, we’ve set our fundraising goal as five thousand dollars because if we don't hit our target, we receive nothing. If this target is reached, your donations become secure, and Pozible enables the use of a stretch goal where donations beyond that point are guaranteed for the campaign.

There are many  challenges involved with filming. However we have a strong cast and crew who are all experienced and we are prepared to overcome any challenge thrown our way and produce a high quality product for audiences to enjoy.