On the flattest and driest inhabited continent on earth, the unimaginable materialises each southern hemisphere winter. Powerful low pressure systems spiral in from Antarctica, unleashing blizzards across the continent's highest peaks.

Take me to the deepest pockets of winter where I can melt away...

Winter Dreaming: an Australian Alps freeheel film unveils the ephemeral beauty of an ancient landscape and the stories of people that live within it.

Australia is predominantly a land of heat and dust but in the mountains of the south-east every winter the miraculous happens, it snows enough to produce unique skiing. This film captures the wonder and subtle beauty of that world in really excellent cinematography.

Tim Macartney-Snape, member of first Australian climb of Mount Everest in 1984, twice Everest summiteer and film-maker.

Written, filmed and produced by Stephen Curtain.
Audio mixing by Boris Hunt, the PetriDish of Sound Music by Stuart Coleman, Something For Kate, Chill Purpose, Eric Skogen, Pierre Gerwig Langer, Cameron Kinsey, Jonathon Roberts, Sam Roberts Band, Associated Production Music.
Cover photo: Ross Walker dropping in. Photographer: Meridee Love

• Approximate running time: 40 minutes plus extras (Keep Winter Cool, Leave No Trace, still photos)
• Audio: Stereo
• Aspect ratio: 16:9
• Year of production: 2008

Produced by Stephen Curtain, Eucalypt Productions © MMVIII www.eucalyptproductions.com