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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.

Claire Smith

Head of Development | Director | Producer

David Elliot-Jones

Managing Director | Producer

Lachlan Mcleod

Creative Director | Director | Editor

Lauren Rose Beck

Associate Producer

Naomi Ball

Head of Impact | Producer | Director

Melbourne production company

Walking Fish Productions is a Melbourne-based premium documentary company, producing stories of heart, humour, social impact and urgent issues for global audiences.

We would like to acknowledge and pay our respects to the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin nation and the Peek Whurrong people of the Marr Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.

We would also like to extend our respects to First Nations people across the globe, the first storytellers, whose voices echo through generations.

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