Australia is burning, and a young mixed-race professor on the run seeks to loosen the fatal stranglehold the mega-drought has inflicted on the desperate inhabitants of New South Wales. [60-min TV Drama; Ask for the Series Bible]

SYNOPSIS:

In the near future, Australia is mired in a 20-year, record-breaking mega-drought. Running amuck in the continent are Greedy Corporations, Con Artists, Water Pirates, Citizen Water Guards (Militias), and a crazed Pyromaniac. Traditional villagers, ranchers, and small businesses struggle to stay afloat. Water, the transparent gold of the land, has all but disappeared.

Our heroine, a beautiful, mixed-race professor, Maria Adams (30), is a descendant of a fifth-generation ranching family residing just outside Melbourne. She loses her job at the prestigious University of Melbourne due to advocating science and cooler heads in a time of crisis. She is demoted and forced to teach at Jesuit Community College, which is under surveillance for anti-Australian activities. Maria’s small house in the bush is the target of a drone strike, and she is on the run.

Hollyfield Inc. is the largest government contractor in the country. It now monopolizes and controls the domestic drone program, dam construction, and energy development in the country. At its helm is their ruthless and arrogant C.E.O., Roderick Devlin III (60), whose company stands to profit billions of tax dollars from proposed Cloud Seeding programs, dam construction contracts, and privatized surveillance operations to weed out environmentalists who defiantly stand in their way.

Maria Adams is befriended by three, young, seemingly harmless engineers, who were recently fired by Hollyfield, Inc., including Dax Green (British); Asian-Australian, Huan Zou; and an aboriginal, Parker Guenther; all in their early twenties, and each with their own hidden agendas. Unbeknownst to Maria, these three ardent activists have only revenge on their minds. And falling in love with handsome Sergeant Walt Hanson (35) from Ballarat, only serves to complicate Maria’s life. Walt’s boss, Commander Dalton is the stabilizing legal figure in the otherwise chaotic region. The eclectic team travels throughout the region battling the unscrupulous corporation, Con Artists, Water Pirates, and Water Guards at every turn.

Our proposed series will combine action, adventure, dark drama, and light comedy delivered with subtle lessons in science, critical thinking, and Maria’s quixotic wisdom. RAINMAKER is told through the worldly eyes of our series Narrator, Maria’s 14-year-old daughter, Angela, remembering with pride, her mother’s legendary life.

RAINMAKER (AUSTRALIA)