Aquarius Films

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Aquarius Films
Type Private
Industry Entertainment
FoundedDecember 2, 2008;14 years ago (2008-12-02)
Founders
  • Angie Fielder
  • Polly Staniford


HeadquartersSydney,
Australia
Number of locations
1 (2008)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Angie Fielder (producer)
  • Polly Staniford (producer)


Products
Services
Website aquariusfilms.com.au

Aquarius Films is an independent Australian film and TV production company based in Sydney, founded in 2008 by producers Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford. TV credits include Love Me, The Unusual Suspects, The Other Guy and Savage River Film credits include Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated Lion [1] starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, produced by Aquarius in association with See-Saw Films and the psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome starring Teresa Palmer and Directed by Cate Shortland which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Dirt Music, directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham and Wish You Were Here, starring Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and won two Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, including Best Screenplay, and five Film Critics Circle Awards, including Best Film. [2]

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Romantic drama series Love Me starring Hugo Weaving, [3] by Aquarius for Warner Bros. Australia and Foxtel's BINGE, premiered in the USA on Hulu in April 2021, and premiered on BINGE in December 2021. Mini-series The Unusual Suspects starring Miranda Otto and Aina Dumlao is streaming on Hulu and premiered on SBS in June 2021 and their 10 x 30’ YA series for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Born To Spy, premiered in December 2021. Additional television credits include The Other Guy [4] Seasons 1 & 2, a 6 x 30’ comedy-drama, for Stan and Hulu starring Matt Okine, Valene Kane and Harriet Dyer and The Unlisted, [5] a 15 x 30’ YA sci-fi thriller for Netflix and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Aquarius Film's most recent production Savage River, [6] a 6 x 1’ crime drama series directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Katherine Langford premiered on 4 September 2022 for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [7]

Aquarius Films received the 2018 NSW Creative Laureate and the 2018 SPA Screen Business Export of the Year Award. In 2022 Aquarius was nominated for two SPA awards; Screen Business Export of the Year and Telemovie or Mini-series Production of the Year for their production The Unusual Suspects. [8]

Productions

Film

YearFilmDirectorWriterNotes
2012 Wish You Were Here (2012 film) Kieran Darcy-Smith Kieran Darcy-Smith & Felicity Price
2016 Lion [9] Garth Davis Luke Davies
2017 Berlin Syndrome [10] Cate Shortland Cate Shortland
2019 Dirt Music Gregor Jordan Jack Thorne

Television

YearShowWriterDirectorNotes
2019 The Unlisted [11]

15 x 30'

Justine Flynn, Lucy Gaffy, Rhys Graham, Rebecca O’Brien, Neil Sharma, Nicholas VersoJane Allen, Tristram Baumber, Nicholas Brown, Rhys Graham, Mithila Gupta, Chris Kunz, Timothy Lee, Alice McCredie-Dando, Natasha Somasundaram, Greg Water.
2017- 2019 The Other Guy [17]

12 x 30' Seasons 1 & 2

Kacie Anning, Gracie Otto Kacie Anning, Tristram Baumber, Becky Lucas, Matt Okine
  • Nominated – Logie Award Most Outstanding Drama Series
  • Nominated – Logie Award Most Popular Drama Program
  • Nominated – AACTA Best Comedy Series
  • Nominated – AACTA Best New Talent
2021 Born to Spy [18]

10 x 30'

Created by Justine Flynn, written by Tiffany Zehnal, Tristram Baumber, Michelle Lim Davidson, Melissa Lee Speyer, Undi Lee, David D.S. Park, Sophia Chung, Alice McCredie-Dando, Hyun Lee, Justine Flynn
  • Produced in Association with Buster Productions
2021 The Unusual Suspects [19]

4 x 60'

Roger Monk,Vonne Patiag,Jessica RedenbackNatalie Bailey, Melvin J Montalban
2021 Love Me [20]

6 x 45'

Based on Swedish Series Alska Mig Created by Josaphine Bornebusch

Blake Ayshford, Alison Bell, Leon Ford, Adele Vuko

Emma Freeman
2022 Savage River [21]

6 x 60'

Giula Sandler,Franz Docherty,Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford, Belinda Bradley, Jocelyn Moorhouse

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