Provocative, courageous and joy-filled,
Raucous Behaviour champion hidden stories.
Based in Adelaide, the team have been telling tales for stage and screen for over twenty years.
We make stuff up
Raucous
adjective
rau.cous /ˈrɔːkəs/
1: boisterously commanding attention
example: ‘they were met with
raucous applause’
tv
in development
shelter
long-form series
8 x 30
When Darling House, a homeless shelter nestled in a salubrious inner-city suburb is threatened with closure after a diabolical event, the vagabond team of social workers wrestle to keep the doors open, while battling demons of their own.
the Sex Act
limited series 6 x 50 mins
In a city where sex work is illegal, Charli's (mother of two and in her 40's) secret job is exposed following the death of a high-profile client in a sex act gone wrong. Threatening to bring down a Premier wrestling her own demons, Charli fights murder charges, political sharks and a media frenzy in a bid to protect her family.
bully
a documentary
When the loudest bully is inside your head - the road into and out of an eating disorder.
Stories from Australian youth
passing
the bone
Waking up dead in the Australian outback, Billy Owen seeks to reclaim his hard-won fortune, get revenge on the man who murdered him and extinguish a family curse that created all this mess in the first place. A fiercely original and darkly comic tale about punching history in the face and trying to get away with it.
film
the ark
When the library of a tiny rural town in South Australia provides the only shelter from an apocalyptic snowstorm, a dysfunctional group of strangers find themselves forced to work together in order to survive.
in the can
the creatives
Karen Houghton
producer / writer
christopher houghton
producer / writer / director
OFFICIAL
COMPETITION
Vladivostok International
Film Festival
With a background in theatre creating thought-provoking works, Karen is a published playwright. TRUTH (2018) premiered at the Adelaide Fringe as part of Australian New Works and 1915 - THE UNTOLD STORY (2018) had two seasons across 2015 and 2018. As Artist in Residence with Slingsby Theatre Company (2019), Karen drafted the stage adaptation of the #1 Australian novel LOST AND FOUND and was short-listed by the Australian Writers Guild's initiative with Sydney Ensemble Theatre (2016) with TALKING WALL. Karen directed the award winning show UNSUNG for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival (2020) and produced THE ARK, a one-act play for the Adelaide Fringe Festival (2024).
Christopher directed SWING in 2007, winning Best Short Film at AFF & St Kilda Film Festival, followed by writing & directing SONS AND MOTHERS, an ACCTA award winning feature documentary showcasing an ensemble of men with disabilities, also winning Best Australian Documentary at Antenna Documentary Festival, Best Arts Documentary at the 2014 ATOM Awards and was long-listed for a Walkley. In 2014, Christopher wrote and directed the psychological thriller, TOUCH that premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and internationally at Cannes Cinephiles. Touch opened the 2015 Manchester International Film Festival and won Best Feature Film at the 2015 Asia Pacific Film Festival.
OFFICIAL
SELECTION
Sydney Film Festival
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