Prime Video Commissions First Australian Amazon Original Feature Film Five Blind Dates

Created and written by comedians Shuang Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park, Five Blind Dates is a romantic comedy that follows a Chinese-Australian tea shop owner in her late twenties and her search for love, family, and cultural connection

Shuang Hu will star in Prime Video Australia’s first Original feature film, and Shawn Seet will direct

Five Blind Dates is produced by Amazon Studios and Goalpost Pictures Australia, and will launch exclusively on Prime Video in Australia and more than 240 countries and territories worldwide

SYDNEY—28 March, 2022—Prime Video today announced that the first Australian Amazon Original movie, Five Blind Dates, was greenlit and is set to commence filming in April. Created and written by actor and influencer Shuang Hu (The Family Law, Ronny Chieng: International Student) and actor and comedian Nathan Ramos-Park (As We Babble On, Club Mickey Mouse, Bone), Five Blind Dates is a romantic comedy that tells the story of a tenacious tea shop owner who is told by a fortune-teller that she will find her soulmate on one of the next five dates she goes on.

Produced by Amazon Studios and Goalpost Pictures Australia, the feature-length romantic comedy will be Prime Video’s first scripted Australian Amazon Original movie and will be filmed in Townsville and Sydney. Five Blind Dates will launch exclusively to Prime members in Australia and more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Five Blind Dates will feature an ensemble cast fronted by Shuang Hu, with additional cast announcements to follow. Shawn Seet (Baron, Storm Boy, The Code) will direct.

Whilst visiting her family in Townsville for her sister Alice’s engagement festivities, Lia (Shuang Hu) finds herself at a comedically tumultuous family luncheon with her best friend Mason and is gifted an unwelcomed prophecy that she will soon meet her suitor. Her family, unsure of Lia’s ability to discern a partner for herself, decides to set her up on five blind dates. Even though her true passion and current focus lies in saving her tea-shop—a legacy left to her from her grandmother—Lia reluctantly agrees to go on these dates.

“As a melting pot of cultures, traditions and communities, Australia is fertile ground for local stories. With Five Blind Dates, Prime Video Australia’s first feature film, we are celebrating Chinese-Australian culture and its warm family dynamics to full and joyful effect.” said Erika North, head of originals, Asia Pacific, at Amazon Studios. “Shuang and Nathan have created an effervescent and lighthearted romantic comedy which we know will be enjoyed by millions of Prime members worldwide. We cannot wait to work with the incredibly talented Goalpost team to bring this heartwarming story to life”

“For Five Blind Dates to be the first Australian Amazon Original Feature is such an honour.  The script has been a real labour of love for us both and we can’t wait for production to begin!” said Shuang Hu, creator, writer, producer, and actor, and Nathan Ramos-Park, creator, writer, and producer of Five Blind Dates.

“The script for Five Blind Dates was irresistible, as is the creative energy of Shuang and Nathan. We couldn’t be more excited to working with them to produce the first Amazon Australia Original feature film,” said Goalpost Pictures Australia’s Kylie du Fresne.
Five Blind Dates will be produced by Goalpost Pictures Australia, with Goalpost’s Kylie du Fresne as producer and Ben Grant and Rosemary Blight as executive producers.

Since 2019, Prime Video has commissioned 15 Amazon Original series in Australia—The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team, Making Their Mark, a series of 10 stand-up comedy specials by some of Australia’s best comedians, LOL: Last One Laughing AU with Rebel Wilson, Back to the Rafters, Luxe Listings Sydney S1 & S2, The Moth Effect, Head Above Water, the award-winning feature-length documentary Burning, and the upcoming Kick Like Tayla, Warriors On The Field, Deadloch, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, and Class of ’07.

Five Blind Dates will join thousands of TV shows and movies in the Prime Video catalogue, including hits like The Wheel of Time, The Boys, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Coming 2 America, Without Remorse, The Tomorrow War, Nine Perfect Strangers, Upload, Golden Globe Award-winning films Being The Ricardos and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, plus Emmy award-winners Fleabag, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and licensed content.

Prime members will be able to watch Five Blind Dates anywhere and anytime on the Prime Video app for smart TVs, mobile devices, Fire TV, Fire TV stick, Fire tablets, Apple TV and stream online. In the Prime Video app, Prime members can download episodes on their mobile devices and tablets and watch anywhere offline at no additional cost. Prime Video is available in Australia at no extra cost to a Prime membership for just AU$6.99/month, new customers can find out more at www.primevideo.com and subscribe to a free 30-day trial.
 

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Goalpost Pictures Australia
Goalpost Pictures is a leading Australian independent producer of feature films and television. Their recent productions include CARMEN, currently in post production, directed by Benjamin Millepied starring Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal and Rossy de Palma in association with Chapter 2 and the international box-office smash THE INVISIBLE MAN, produced with Blumhouse for Universal, written and directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Elisabeth Moss. Other feature films produced by the company include I AM WOMAN directed by Unjoo Moon, which premiered at 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, TOP END WEDDING written by Joshua Tyler and Miranda Tapsell and directed by Wayne Blair, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, UPGRADE, co-produced with Blumhouse and written and directed by Leigh Whannell, winner of the SXSW Midnighters Audience Award, and their smash hit THE SAPPHIRES also directed by Wayne Blair, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Television credits include NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN, CLEVERMAN and they are in production of the six part mystery drama BLACK SNOW.