Top of the Lake S1 premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first TV series to be played in full (in one day) at Sundance. It garnered many awards and sold in over seventy countries worldwide. It was written with Jane Campion and set in the South Island of New Zealand.

Top of the Lake S2 written with Jane Campion was the first TV series to be played in full at the Cannes Film Festival. It garnered many awards and sold worldwide.

Sweetie, co-written with Jane Campion (The Piano, Power of the Dog) won Camera d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, Best Original Screenplay at the AFI Awards and has been embraced as a classic in the Criterion Collection. It remains favourite viewing for the young and disturbed.

Breath, adapted by Gerard Lee from the Tim Winton novel was produced by Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and many other films) and Jamie Hilton in Australia. It was directed by and starred Simon Baker and nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay at the AACTA Awards. Breath has an 80% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 

All Men Are Liars, written and directed by Gerard Lee, opened the Sydney Film Festival. Produced by John Maynard (Sweetie, The Navigator, The Boys) it won Most Popular Film at Palm Springs Film Festival and Best Film at the San Remo Film Festival. It was nominated in eight categories in the annual AFI Awards.

My Mistress, written by Gerard Lee for first-time director Stephen Lance was filmed in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.  Exploring themes of family dysfunction, sado-masochism and urban alienation it remains a cult classic for the select few. 

Praise won the AFI Best Screenplay adapted from another source, Best Foreign Independent Film (nominee) from the BFI and Best Adapted Screenplay from the Film Critics Circle. 

Gerard Lee (uncredited) wrote the first two drafts of the script when Ray Lawrence (Bliss, Lantana) was slated as director. Andy McGahan went on to do subsequent drafts.

Floundering, the debut novel from writer Romy Ash was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the Prime Minister’s literary award 2013. It has been developed into a screenplay to be directed by David Wenham.

The Big Galah is a gritty, humorous and touching tale of identity and race set in Outback Australia in the late Eighties.

Originally written as a six-part TV-series, The Big Galah has been adapted into a scenario, a form which bridges the gap between novel and screenplay.