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Brisbane Fashion Week

DOP, 2007

See how the glamour comes to the runway in a backstage look at Australia's newest fashion festival.

Network Ten

Fashion

In Steve's Footsteps

DOP, 2007

Terri Irwin's emotional journey as she takes the helm of the most ambitious crocodile research expedition ever undertaken.

Best Picture Show

Terri with croc. Photo: Best Picture Show

The Secret Life of Crocodiles

DOP, 2007

Filmed in 2004, Steve and the team joins forces with Crocodile researcher Mark Read to fit cameras and satellite trackers to crocs near Weipa, Cape York to get a unique look at crocs in the wild.

Best Picture Show

Steve and Mark Read. Photo: Best Picture Show

My Daddy The Crocodile Hunter

DOP (location), 2007

Bindi Irwin hosts her very first hour long television special taking viewers on her own personal and private look at what it was like growing up with her famous dad - "The Crocodile Hunter."

Best Picture Show

My Daddy The Crocodile Hunter

Crikey! What An Adventure

DOP, 2006

Family and close friends remember Steve Irwin.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

Crikey! What a bloke

Ocean's Deadliest

DOP, 2006

Steve Irwin is joined by Philippe Cousteau, to reveal the secrets of the worlds deadliest sea creatures.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

The boys on the front of Croc One
Down Under Grads
Down Under Grads

DOP, 2006

It's the start of the semester at one of Australia's top universities and 37,000 students, are about to embark on their studies. University is make or break time; a time that can change people forever.

4 half hour episodes

Big Island Pictures / Film Australia / SBS

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Steve Irwin's Great Escapes - USA National Parks

Steve in Rocky Mountain National Park

DOP, 2005

Steve, Terri, Bindy and Bob explore seven of the USA's best National Parks, from Roosevelt in North Decota, through Mount Rushmore and The Rocky Mountains to Big Bend, Texas.

Best Picture Show / Discovery Travel

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Craig, Bindi and Steve prepare to take off over Uluru. Photo by Steve

Steve Irwin's Great Escapes - The Ghan

DOP, 2005

Steve Irwin and his family cross the continent from Darwin to Adelaide on Australia's famous Ghan Railway.

Best Picture Show / Discovery Travel

(Photo CL)

Black Soldier Blues

DOP, 2005

Thousands of Black American soldiers served in Australia during WWII. But for most, the real battle was against the racism in their own army.

Filmed in USA, North Queensland and Brisbane.

Big Island Pictures / SBS

» News
» Gallery

Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees in thier combie (photo Sky)

Murder In The Outback

DOP, 2005

Murder In The Outback summarises all the known facts and theories in the lead up to the trial of Bradley Murdoch for the murder of Peter Falconio and attack on Joanne Lees in 2001.

The doco was mentioned by Joanne in her book "No Turning Back" and a drama of the same name aired on Australian television in 2007.

IWC Media (UK) / Sky (UK)

Gone to a Good Home

Gone to a Good Home

DOP, 2005

Exposes how Australian authorities pressured many unmarried mothers from the 1950s to the 1970s to give up their babies for adoption.

Big Island Pictures / Film Australia / SBS

» Gold ACS Award

Gladiatrix

Gladiatrix

DOP, 2004

Single mum, Sharon, spends her weekends training to be Australia’s first female gladiator.

Big Island Pictures / SBS

Steve at his best

Confessions of a Crocodile Hunter

DOP, 2004

Steve’s family and friends join him to share the highs and lows of the Crocodile Hunter journey so far.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

A frame from Ice Breaker

Ice Breaker

DOP, 2004

Steve Irwin’s adventure to the frozen continent of Antarctica in search of the deadly Leopard Seal.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

» News
» Gold ACS Award

Crown of Thorns star fish (photo David Hannan)

Undersea Outbreak

2nd Unit DOP, 2003

Scientists fight to stop the Crown of Thorns starfish destroying the Great Barrier Reef.

Sequences include reef aerials, coral collection and coral spawning.

Guliver Media / Discovery

Steve has hold of two jaw ropes allowing Little Frank a narrow escape from a 14ft croc during a difficult release.  Photo courtesy The Best Picture Show Company

Search for Super Croc

DOP, 2003

Steve’s bone crunching search through Cape York for the world’s largest salt water crocodile.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

Crocs in the City

DOP, 2003

Steve goes to Cancoon, a beautiful, popular Mexican tourist destination with a small problem... Crocs!

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

Where there's small crocs, there's big ones. Steve caught this fiesty little croc just behind a major resort in Cancoon, Mexico. Photo: Justin Lyons, The Best Picture Show Company

Miss Turkey is crowned Miss World in 2002 (AP Photo Alastair Grant)

Blood Bath and Beauty Queens

DOP (Aust), 2003

As the 2001 Miss World competition was being setup in Zimbabwe a newspaper article about the event sparked bloody riots and a public relations nightmare.

IWC Media (UK) / Channel 4 (UK)

Island of Snakes

DOP, 2003

Steve’s Sri Lankan adventure with deadly snakes, crocs and wild elephants.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

Steve in Sri Lanka

Tigers of Shark Bay

DOP, 2003

Steve Irwin encounters the fearsome Tiger Sharks of Western Australia’s Shark Bay.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

Steve catches an 11 foot Tiger shark in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Photo courtesy: The Best Picture Show Company

River of the Damned

DOP, 2003

Only Steve could swim with crocs in the remote, pristine head waters of the endangered rivers of Belize.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

The Trouble with George

The Trouble with George

DOP, 2003

Jennifer opened her home and heart to George, an 84 year old homeless alcoholic.

Big Island Pictures / SBS

 

Movieworld

Inside Warner Bros.

DOP, 2002

A look behind the scenes at the Gold Coast’s world class attraction Warner Brothers' Movie World.

Beyond / Discovery Travel and HD Theatre

 

Casper the White Crocodile

Camera Operator, 2002

Steve has to move eight angry crocs to make room at Australia Zoo for Casper, an angry white crocodile.

Best Picture Show / Animal Planet

Casper

Filming Heart of Gold (Photo Bruce Peebles)

Heart of Gold

Producer / DOP, 2001

The emotional life and death story of a heart transplant patient and his family.

Freckle Face / PFTC / ABC

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Tug of War

Tug of War

DOP, 2001

A look at the most bizarre and riveting group of international sporting champions you're ever likely to meet - the Australian Women's Tug of War team.

ABC

Peter Mcrae with a Bilby  (photo Guliver Media)

The Bilby Brothers

DOP, 2001

Two unlikely Aussie larrikins combine to fight to save the endangered Bilby.

Guliver Media / ABC

» Awards
» The Bilby Brothers site

Bill Scott

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Hey Rain

DOP, 2001

Bill Scott is an Australian folk legend, a storyteller, writer and larrikin.

Dolphin Creative / ABC

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Craig uses a tinny for a dolly as Bundy crosses the Mosman River (Photo Gulliver Media)

Bundy’s Last Great Adventure

DOP, 2000

An historic steam train journey through Queensland’s sugar industry.

Guliver Media / Seven Network

» Gold ACS Award

Opening title of the film shot at 100 kmp/h on the Hume Highway (photo CL)

The Truckies

DOP, 2000

Mermaids and road rags… It’s life on the road with long-haul truck drivers.

Big Island Pictures / Beckers International / ABC / NHK (Japan)

Rick Thornberry during training with his brother (photo CL)

The Fighting Thornberrys

DOP, 1999

Their father was injured while boxing, but two brothers are determined to fight for the world title.

Big Island Pictures / ABC

» Highly Commended ACS Award

Danny and the Cougars

DOP, 1998

Danny dreamed of owning a baseball team since he played in the Japanese village where he was born. Now his team is in the finals and winning, but Danny is struggling to pay the players.

Big Island Pictures / ABC

 

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