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Walking Fish Productions is a Melbourne-based, boutique production company that specialises in premium documentaries for global audiences, with work spanning quirky stories, urgent issues and unseen worlds.
Their most recent feature documentary, behind-the-scenes comedy Mockbuster, premiered at the 2025 Adelaide Film Festival and was awarded the Feature Documentary Audience Award. 2022 title Clean, an observational portrait of Sandra Pankhurst, premiered in competition at SXSW 2022, closed the 70th Melbourne International Film Festival and won an Asian Academy Creative Award.
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, boutique production company that specialises in premium documentaries for global audiences, with work spanning quirky stories, urgent issues and unseen worlds.
Their most recent feature documentary, behind-the-scenes comedy Mockbuster, premiered at the 2025 Adelaide Film Festival and was awarded the Feature Documentary Audience Award. 2022 title Clean, an observational portrait of Sandra Pankhurst, premiered in competition at SXSW 2022, closed the 70th Melbourne International Film Festival and won an Asian Academy Creative Award.
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.





