Shark Island Productions
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| Industry | Documentary |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
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Key people
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Ian Darling, Sally Fryer, Mary Macrae, Malinda Wink |
| Website | sharkisland.com.au |
Shark Island Productions is an award-winning documentary film production company based in Sydney, Australia.
Formed in 2001 by AFI Award-winning producer and director Ian Darling, Shark Island Productions creates extensive education, outreach and community engagement campaigns with its films. The Company builds strategic partnerships with foundations, philanthropists, and not-for-profit organisations to raise awareness and make a significant social impact.
Shark Island Productions manages Shark Island Institute, a non-profit organisation that has partnered with BRITDOC and the Sundance Documentary Film program to bring GoodPitch2 Australia to the Sydney Opera House in 2014 and 2015, an international forum that connect filmmakers with foundations, financiers, not-for-profits, philanthropists and policy-makers.
Shark Island Productions is a certified B corporation Company that meets standards of social and environmental performance, and is carbon neutral from 2014.
Suzy & The Simple Man is an environmental love story about sustainability and the cycle of life.
Eight years in the making, this intimate yet funny and uplifting film, features Suzy and her adventurer husband Jon Muir, who live a simple life off the grid — growing organic fruit and vegetables and caring for their chooks and sheep. But the simple life is never as easy as it seems.
Jon Muir has climbed Mt Everest, walked to the South and North Poles, and has walked alone across Australia too.
A group of first time offenders reveal the crimes that led to their incarceration into the Youth Unit at Port Phillip Prison. The inmates tell their stories around the choices, mistakes and the effects of their actions on themselves, families and victims, and discuss the harsh reality of prison life, the daily grind,boredom, depression and the fear of rejection when they return to the outside world. Made in association with Igniting Change the film and study guide is made available as a free resource for all schools in Australia.
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