Asia-Pacific News

The Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) and the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which establishes a framework of cooperation and is intended to enhance co-production opportunities between Canadian and Australian independent screen-based producers. “Excellent content knows no borders, especially in the digital economy. It just has to [...]

When Queensland-based Marine Biologist and filmmaker Dr. Dean Miller was approached to shoot one of the most remote places on earth with the new Sony PMW-200 HD camera his reaction was a justifiable mix of excitement and trepidation.Miller explained, “Heard Island in the Australian Sub-Antarctic is extremely hard to get to and only very few [...]

Production house NHNZ’s latest series Middle Kingdom Ride, following two daring brothers tackling the world’s first motorcycle circumnavigation of China, has been picked up by Travel Channel’s international group.Middle Kingdom Ride is a co-production between NHNZ, G219 productions Ltd and CICC, and distributed by OTF.The six-part series follows Ryan and Colin Pyle who, inspired by [...]

Callan Green, one of Sydney’s busiest DOPs, recently finished shooting Lanterns a music video for Australian band Birds of Tokyo, exclusively on the Sony flagship F65 4K camera. Green who collaborated with Director Josh Logue specifically chose the F65 due to its picture quality and ease of workflow saying, “Josh and I wanted to shoot [...]

National Geographic Channels’ Nat Geo Wild has acquired international rights to Channel Seven’s original production – Australia’s Deadliest. The new 12-part series, developed and produced by Channel Seven’s factual production team, tells compelling real-life stories of dangerous human encounters with Australia’s most venomous and lethal animals, including the box jellyfish, brown snake and saltwater crocodile.It [...]

Sydney-based Design and production house Engine has moved to new office space in Foster Street, Surry Hills. Engine MD Calvin Gardiner said, “We’re excited to announce that we’ve finally settled in to our new office in Surry Hills. We’ve seen a major evolution in our creative offering over the past few years, developing our commercial, [...]

Australia’s Northern Pictures has joined a production stable that already houses New Zealand-based NHNZ and Beach House Pictures (BHP) in Singapore.Sydney-based David Haslingden, who bought NHNZ and its sister company BHP from Fox last October, acquired Northern Pictures to add an Australian production house to his pool of globally independent production houses.Managing Director of Northern [...]

Flying Bark Productions’ Managing Director, Jim Ballantine today announced the Director, Producer and Line Producer for the first ever animated theatrical release of international hit property, Maya the Bee. Alexs Stadermann has been confirmed as Director, Barbara Stephen will be the movie’s Producer and Alexia Gates-Foale will be Line Producer on the 3D stereoscopic production.With [...]

Australia’s SLR Productions has confirmed production will start in March for the company’s live action series, ‘Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures’. The 26 x 24 minute series for 8-12 year olds will be broadcast locally on both Network Ten and Cartoon Network respectively and will be filmed at the South Australian Film Corporation’s brand new Adelaide [...]

Recently Coldplay were scheduled to play an intimate VIP gig for 2DayFM Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) at Sydney’s Trackdown Studios and Craig Borg, SCA’s Technical Production Manager called Videocraft to help with the video side of the production. Borg outlined SCA’s requirements for the production which included multi-camera coverage for the live web stream through [...]