Loglines & Screenplays by Gina Lennox

GENRES: Drama, Biopic / True Story

GYRE TV Series logline: 

Enriched and whiplashed by a relentless gyre between East and West, an interweave of five intriguing people from four generations of a Chinese Australian family is driven by cross-generational echoes of war, rebellion, racism, love, loss and secrets – the known and unknown.

Pilot Logline: 

As the clouds of war loom over 1941 Hong Kong, the Lau family is drawn into the impending crisis: Lau Ang Way conducts business by his own rules, his formidable child-bride Ngan Ho Lan has become the family’s matriarch, and their Australian-born daughter Mae Ling Lau is torn between her love for a man and family loyalty — while, in the previous century, Jin Ho is forged by family violence and the Taiping Rebellion and Ang Way and Ho Lan negotiates a not so unusual marriage for the era and culture.

Season One Logline: 

WAR - the Taiping Rebellion, the Japanese invasion and occupation of Hong Kong, and when the family escape, Japan’s war in mainland China - shatters the lives of three generations.

GENRES: Musical, Fantasy

A surreal musical melodrama about personal and political power set in the ancient world sandwiched between the ultra modern inspired by the legend of Kawa, a gentle patriarchal blacksmith, who reluctantly leads a revolution against a tyrannical Serpent King, whose pact with the Shadow to gain absolute power causes two human-brain eating serpents to grow from his shoulders. The rebellion succeeds, but Kawa shocks everyone when he refuses the throne.