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Walking Fish Productions is a Melbourne-based production company which specialises in premium documentaries for global audiences. Current productions include Screen Australia-supported feature documentaries Guardians of the River and Mockbuster.

Recent title Clean, an observational portrait of Sandra Pankhurst which explores the sensitive work of trauma cleaning, premiered in competition at SXSW 2022, closed the Melbourne International Film Festival and broadcasted on SBS as part of the ‘Australia Uncovered’ series. Other titles include Who I Am (DocEdge/Antenna/Network 10, 2022), Searching for the Tassie Tiger (VICE, 2021), Hakamada (Al Jazeera, 2020), Big in Japan (Amazon Prime/Docplay, 2018) and Convenient Education (SBS, 2012). Walking Fish was founded by Lachlan McLeod, David Elliot-Jones and Louis Dai in 2012.

Walking Fish Productions is a Melbourne-based production company which specialises in premium documentaries for global audiences. Current productions include Screen Australia-supported feature documentaries Guardians of the River and Mockbuster.

Recent title Clean, an observational portrait of Sandra Pankhurst which explores the sensitive work of trauma cleaning, premiered in competition at SXSW 2022, closed the Melbourne International Film Festival and broadcasted on SBS as part of the ‘Australia Uncovered’ series. Other titles include Who I Am (DocEdge/Antenna/Network 10, 2022), Searching for the Tassie Tiger (VICE, 2021), Hakamada (Al Jazeera, 2020), Big in Japan (Amazon Prime/Docplay, 2018) and Convenient Education (SBS, 2012). Walking Fish was founded by Lachlan McLeod, David Elliot-Jones and Louis Dai in 2012.

Amy Browne

Post Production Supervisor

David Elliot-Jones

Co-founder | Producer

Lachlan Mcleod

Co-founder | Director | Editor

Lauren Rose Beck

Associate Producer

Naomi Ball

Producer | Impact Producer

Melbourne production company

Walking Fish is an Australian production company specialising in character-led documentaries for global audiences and social impact storytelling.

We would like to acknowledge and pay our respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which our office sits. We extend this to the traditional custodians of the lands across Australia where we do our work. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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