Andrew Leavold

A wannabe Australian film director travels to Ghana to produce his dream film, a kung-fu remake of The Harder They Come with Ghanian action sensation, Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah.

An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.

TEDDY PAGE (real name Teddy Chiu) is one of my favourite trash film directors. Throughout the 1980s he made some of the most entertaining, low-budget, explosive action jungle films you will ever see. With the help of certified Weng Wengologist and Filipino film expert ANDREW LEAVOLD ("The Search For Weng Weng"), I explore the English language action films tha Teddy churned out between 1983-1995.

Decades after his career as a tobacco advertising icon, Bryan Burns’ life is in ruins. After his mother dies of lung cancer, he is tormented by a talking cigarette on an anti-smoking billboard. He snaps and transforms into the Ribspreader, a killer stalking the city, extinguishing smokers and cutting out their lungs to make his macabre smoking jacket.

FILM SAFARI GHANA explores Australian critic and filmmaker Andrew Leavold’s obsession with the work of Ghanaian action movie sensation Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah. Journeying to Kumasi to meet his hero, Andrew is soon acting in the starring-role of Ninja's slavery-themed action movie, WHITE DEVIL. Witness the birth of a partnership between two of the world's most maverick directors as they hatch a plan to reteam in Ghana to shoot Leavold’s dream-film, a four-foot kung-fu remake of THE HARDER THEY COME.

The outrageous true story of Australian cartoonist and punk rocker, Fred Negro, creator of PUB, the cartoon strip that chronicled the history of the St Kilda music scene that spawned the likes of Nick Cave and The Birthday Party and his own controversial shock-rock band, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY.

A wannabe Australian film director travels to Ghana to produce his dream film, a kung-fu remake of The Harder They Come with Ghanian action sensation, Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah.

A wannabe Australian film director travels to Ghana to produce his dream film, a kung-fu remake of The Harder They Come with Ghanian action sensation, Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah.

A wannabe Australian film director travels to Ghana to produce his dream film, a kung-fu remake of The Harder They Come with Ghanian action sensation, Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah.

An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.

An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.

An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.

FILM SAFARI GHANA explores Australian critic and filmmaker Andrew Leavold’s obsession with the work of Ghanaian action movie sensation Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah. Journeying to Kumasi to meet his hero, Andrew is soon acting in the starring-role of Ninja's slavery-themed action movie, WHITE DEVIL. Witness the birth of a partnership between two of the world's most maverick directors as they hatch a plan to reteam in Ghana to shoot Leavold’s dream-film, a four-foot kung-fu remake of THE HARDER THEY COME.

The outrageous true story of Australian cartoonist and punk rocker, Fred Negro, creator of PUB, the cartoon strip that chronicled the history of the St Kilda music scene that spawned the likes of Nick Cave and The Birthday Party and his own controversial shock-rock band, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY.

The outrageous true story of Australian cartoonist and punk rocker, Fred Negro, creator of PUB, the cartoon strip that chronicled the history of the St Kilda music scene that spawned the likes of Nick Cave and The Birthday Party and his own controversial shock-rock band, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY.

The outrageous true story of Australian cartoonist and punk rocker, Fred Negro, creator of PUB, the cartoon strip that chronicled the history of the St Kilda music scene that spawned the likes of Nick Cave and The Birthday Party and his own controversial shock-rock band, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY.

A no-budget tribute to 60s exploitation queen Doris Wishman and filmed in sordid black and white and searing colour, "Lesbo-A-Go-Go" follows the once-innocent Sugar on a wild psycho-sexual downhill spiral into degradation, drug addiction, delirium and ultimately damnation.

The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.