Wedge-Tail Pictures goes into production on renting documentary series 'One-Year Lease'

We're delighted to say that a documentary series we have been bubbling away at since the new year has received its first significant piece of funding to go into development.

'One-Year Lease' is a funny and factual look at the renting crisis engulfing Australia, hosted by satirist Mark Humphries, known for his work at ABC 730 and SBS's The Feed.

The series will be directed and produced by Wedge-Tail's Bill Code, a former Al Jazeera and Guardian journalist, and co-produced by Melanie Garrick. Co-written by long-time Humphries collaborator Evan Williams, it will feature comedic 'break out' explainer sketches amidst the more traditional obs-doc treatment. One-Year Lease has received development funding from Create NSW to kick off properly after ticking along in pre-development since the new year.

We have approved support from champions of indie docs Documentary Australia Foundation - which means that all donations to help us get this thing alive and kicking and out into the world are eligible for DGR status. If you'd like to see a series with metal take on everything that is wrong with housing - with some solid filmmaking and a few laughs, please make a donation here - maybe even before the tax year is through!

EOI - Looking for a water documentary host

Wedge-Tail Pictures has an environmental documentary in development on water - to that end we are searching just the right person to host it - there's a gig description below:

The team behind an environmental documentary in development are looking to meet someone passionate about preserving the natural world, interested in the hosting and shared scripting of a documentary project on water use. She or he may be someone with a scientific/academic, activist, or agricultural background or simply a strong interest in water, farming, energy, the environment, First Nations water rights or activism, from any background or corner of Australia.

Murrumbidgee: Big Water is an impact documentary in development which charts a path through one river system, the Murrumbidgee, to ask how we might better balance the competing demands on our water supplies across the world. It seeks to highlight the things Australia is getting right – and wrong – with regards to water and the natural world in a cinematic, informative, and nuanced way. Media/film experience is useful but not essential - the key is being informed and passionate on the topic, being able to present to camera, and being open to new ideas and perspectives.

If the project continues into production, then it is paid, creative work on a documentary with a professional and accredited team.

More information about the project can be found here

Please reach out at hello@wedgetailpictures.com

Powerful campaign video from Full Stop Australia

We were really pleased to assist Full Stop Australia with video production on their latest powerful video campaign in the field of domestic and sexual violence.

Wedge-Tail Pictures shot and post-produced a series of videos with Lisa Madden from Sydney's Clever Content for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based violence campaign.

A 4k video shoot, three point soft box lighting, using a Canon c300 mark ii camera and using the Blackmagic 12g monitor as both a monitor and extra recorder, with participants aided by autocue.

This video production was shot, somewhat miraculously given the amount of participants, in a single day in a Sydney studio and edited quickly to deadline in Final Cut X.