Matchbox Pictures
Matchbox Pictures is a film and television production company with production houses in Melbourne, Sydney, and Singapore.[1][2] It was formed in 2008 by Tony Ayres, Penny Chapman, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon and Helen Panckhurst. In 2011, NBCUniversal took a majority stake in Matchbox Pictures, and full ownership by January 2014.[3]
Matchbox Pictures is led by Chris Oliver-Taylor (Managing Director), Debbie Lee (Director of Scripted Development), Penny Chapman (Producer), Tony Ayres (Producer/Director), Kylie Washington (Director for Unscripted Content), Helen Panckhurst (Head of Production), Michael McMahon (Commercial Director), and Tom Chatwin (Finance Director).
Productions
Scripted
- Maximum Choppage - Drama 6 x 27 mins
- Glitch - Drama 6 x 1 Hour
- Stories I Want To Tell You In Person - 2 x 30mins
- Dealine Gallipoli - Drama Mini Series 4 x 1 Hour Episodes
- Old School - Drama Mini Series 8 x 1 Hour Episodes
- Cut Snake - Feature Film (100 mins)
- Devil's Playground - Drama (TV) 6 X 1 hour Episodes
- Underground - Drama Feature Film and Telemovie - 90 minutes
- The Slap - Drama (TV) 8 x 1 Hr
- Zuzu & the Supernuffs - Children's Drama (TV) | 8 x 5 minutes
- The Turning Cockleshell - Short Film 12 minutes (approx.)
- The Straits - Contemporary Crime Drama (TV) | 10 x 55 minutes
- My Place - Children's Drama (TV) 13 x 26 minutes
- The Home Song Stories - Drama (Feature Film) 103 minutes
- Lou Drama (Feature Film) - 86 minutes
- Saved Drama (Telemovie) - 90 minutes
Non-scripted
- The Real Housewives of Melbourne Series 112 - Reality TV Series 12 x 1 Hr
- Room 101 - 10 x 1 Hour
- Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy - Formatted Observational Documentary (TV) 8 x 1hr
- Formal Wars - Formatted Observational Documentary (TV) 8 x 1hr
- Next Stop Hollywood - Documentary TV 6 x 30 minutes
- Anatomy Series 1-4 - Documentary 3 x 30 minutes
- Swimmer - Documentary 1 hour
- Sex, An Unnatural History - Factual / Comedy TV 6 x 26 minutes
- Mrs Carey's Concert - Feature Documentary 95 mins
- The Leaky Boat - Documentary 60 minutes
- Miss South Sudan Australia - Documentary 30 mins
- Darwin's Lost Paradise - Documentary 90 minutes
References
- ↑ Groves, Don. "Matchbox Venture into Asia". If.com.au. If. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- ↑ Groves, Don. "The Slap Producers Open Queensland Office". If.com.au. If. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- ↑ Roxborough, Scott. "NBCUniversal Takes Full Control of Australia's Matchbox Pictures". The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 March 2015.