Grace Beside Me

Working in collaboration with Magpie Picture’s producers Lois Randall and Dena Curtis, Carnival was tasked with creating original key art for the Australian television series Grace Beside Me which was broadcast on NITV and ABC Me. Working with existing talent photography, Carnival had to build a world around the existing assets, communicating a sense of a teenage drama with mystical leanings. This was done through the development of a dramatic backdrop, the turbulent sky to allude to the supernatural themes and theatrical colour grading, used to offset the sunny dispositions of the central characters.

The Premise:Fuzzy Mac (Kyliric Masella) is a thirteen-year-old Indigenous Australian girl who discovers that she can communicate with spirits. She lives in the small regional community of Laurel Dale with her eccentric grandparents, Nan (Tessa Rose) and Pop (Charles Passi), who strive to teach her about tradition and their ancestors. Her family represents a mix of Aboriginal Australian, Irish and South Sea Islander traditions.[1] Fuzzy’s father, Sonny (Lasarus Ratuere), is a FIFO worker in the mines and her mother, Grace (Umema Curtis), died at the age of nineteen when Fuzzy was a baby.[2] The pair moved in with Sonny’s parents when Fuzzy was born.

The series has attracted broad acclaim in Australia and internationally, and has been sold to territories worldwide

Winner, Screen Producers Australia Awards, Children’s Series Production of the Year, 2018
Winner, First Nations Media Awards, Best Drama, 2018
Winner, Australian Directors Guild Award, Best Direction in Children’s Television, 2019
Nominated, UNESCO Special Prize, Prix Jeunesse International Awards, Munich 2018
Official Selection, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, USA, 2018
Nominated, AACTA Awards, Best Children’s Program, 2018
Nominated, Logie Award, Most Outstanding Children’s Program, 2018