DOCUMENTARY
Dark Lake Productions creates award winning documentaries for broadcast and online distribution, focused on social change storytelling. Dark Lake Productions archival footage has featured in broadcast documentaries worldwide. We are currently developing the feature documentary SEEKING SALI with Producer Tom Zubrycki; and the fine art series ELEMENTAL with support from Screen NT.
Recent productions:
Dark Lake Productions other broadcast credits:
Other projects:
Dark Lake Productions has provided video production training in remote communities for:
Dark Lake Productions creates award winning documentaries for broadcast and online distribution, focused on social change storytelling. Dark Lake Productions archival footage has featured in broadcast documentaries worldwide. We are currently developing the feature documentary SEEKING SALI with Producer Tom Zubrycki; and the fine art series ELEMENTAL with support from Screen NT.
Recent productions:
- Heidi Lee Douglas' powerful autobiographical documentary DEFENDANT 5 (ABC & Al Jazeera) about her battle with logging giant Gunns Ltd, which was awarded Best Short Film at Green Film Festival in Seoul 2016; was nominated for the Golden Kapok Award, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival 2015 and led Heidi to be honoured as a “Heritage Hero” by the German Government at the opening ceremony of the World Heritage Committee’s meeting in Bonn, 2015.
- Behind the Scenes documentary shorts for Deadhouse Films/Rockzeline's feature SKINFORD 2 and web series PET KILLER;
- The one hour version of Neil Lawrence's directorial debut TO SPRING FROM THE HAND
- The short documentary SOUL'S KITCHEN, about the life and work of artist Paulus Berensohn
Dark Lake Productions other broadcast credits:
- Director of Photography on Kelli-Jean Drinkwater's feature documentary NOTHING TO LOSE (SBS)
- Editor, VOICES IN THE DARK (30 mins, ABC Arts)
- Online Editor, PORTRAIT OF A DISTANT LAND (3 x 30mins, SBS)
- Second Camera and Director's Attachment THE MISSION (3 x 30 min, ABC Compass)
- Second Camera WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRENDA HEAN? (90 Mins)
- Additional Camera on Vu Die Ciele (ARTE)
- Additional Camera THE LAST VALLEY (60 mins, ABC)
Other projects:
- Creating the MAP OF A DREAM OF THE FUTURE climate change education kit, and using the kit to lead subsequent creative writing classes in primary schools in regional Tasmania (Arts Tasmania)
- EAT WELL, GROW WELL a web series showing how to establish community gardens (Eat Well Tasmania)
- ACTIVE KIDS, a web series enabling primary school children to stay active and healthy (Roar Film)
- STILL GARDENING, a web series to enable elderly people to stay in their homes by getting help with their gardening (Hobart City Council)
- STORIES FROM THE SEA, award winning documentary for Ocean Planet Tasmania
- THE VALE OF BELVOIR, award winning documentary for Tasmanian Land Conservancy
- THE BUILDING BREATHES, permanent video art installation at the Sustainable Learning Centre, Hobart
Dark Lake Productions has provided video production training in remote communities for:
- Greening Australia and the Yugul Mangi Rangers, Arnhem Land
- Martu Media, Pilbara
- Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation, Cape York
- Monpi Sustainable Exports, Papua New Guinea
- Wan Smolbag, Vanuatu
- Big hART, Tasmania
