Magpie Pictures

16/05/2025

So much experience and insight was shared in the panel produced by Magpie's Lois Randall last week at , on best practice in scripted development - thanks to Tony Ayres, Sarah Lambert, Quan Phung and Lynn Renee Maxcy. What an opportunity for delegates to learn from such generous and talented writers and producers.

22/04/2025

Thanks VicScreen for the plug - if you haven't seen Swift Street yet, it's streaming on SBS On Demand. Proudly made in Melbourne Victoria.

14/04/2025

We've been busy Magpies!

'Pictures of You', the Emma Grey novel, has been optioned by Magpie Pictures, which has appointed Quan Phung and Fiona Eagger as advisors.

21/03/2025

It's an honour to be nominated for a SPA award for our SWIFT STREET amongst these brilliant contenders. As a small indy production company we're as proud of the creative outcomes and production values as we are of our commitment to diversity and inclusion both on and off screen and at all levels of this production, and of every single person who contributed their art, hard work and love. Congratulations to all our Swifty family ❤️

🏆 SPA Awards 🏆

Congratulations to the finalists in the Telemovie or Mini Series Production of the Year category of the 23rd Annual !

▪️ After The Party - Lingo Pictures & Luminous Beast (ABC)
▪️ Four Years Later - Easy Tiger Productions (SBS)
▪️ House of Gods - Matchbox Pictures (ABC)
▪️ Human Error - Roadshow Rough Diamond (Nine Network)
▪️ Last Days of the Space Age - Princess Pictures (Disney+)
▪️ Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story - Easy Tiger Productions (Stan)
▪️ Plum – Roadshow Rough Diamond (ABC)
▪️ Swift Street - Magpie Pictures (SBS)

Winners of each category will be honoured at the Awards Ceremony on Thursday 8 May, the final day of .

SPA Awards Partners: Screen Queensland, City of Gold Coast, Screen Australia, Disney Studios Australia, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Media Super and The Post Lounge.

SPA members can cast their votes before midnight on March 21: https://ow.ly/M15J50Vh0Vo

25/02/2025

Magpie Pictures is honoured to be a finalist in the 2025 Screen Producers Australia Awards, up for Miniseries Production of the Year for SWIFT STREET. (Producers Lois Randall and Ivy Mak pictured).

SPA Members can vote here https://screenproducers.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/OXJMVXjd

If you're able to vote we'd be so grateful for your support! And what a privilege it is to be acknowledged alongside the other incredible productions nominated in this year's awards.

19/12/2024

We want to finish a wonderful year at Magpie Pictures with a big ✨THANK YOU✨ to everyone who worked with us and supported us in 2024!

Thanks Tig Terera, Ivy Mak, Tanzyn Crawford, Cliff Curtis and our amazing Swift Street family, Julie Eckersley and SBS for commissioning and Canneseries for selecting our series, and partners Fifth Season, Screen Australia, VicScreen, Create NSW and Fulcrum. Thanks also to Australians in Film for hosting Lois and Ivy at Charlie's in LA, and to the beautiful humans at Screen Australia for believing and supporting us through Enterprise. With our new advisors, development producers and creative collaborators we look forward to the year to come.

A happy and safe summer holiday season to all!

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top: Amber Melody
bottom L-R: Grégoire Lentini, Jane Zhang, Simon Cardwell

17/12/2024

Great to see Magpie's SWIFT STREET in Guardian's Best of 2024 list! 🙏🏽 "There’s no time to be bored in Swift Street: the pace soars and the characters move quickly, throwing themselves into crime-filled escapades."
SBS On Demand SBS Australia

From drama and comedy to quiz shows and documentaries, Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick the best of the best

19/11/2024

We’re excited to share that SWIFT STREET is a contender for Best Miniseries in the 2025 AACTA Awards.

Round 1 voting closes this Thursday 21st of November at 5pm.

If you are an AACTA member, you can vote here https://tv.aacta.org/page/vote/ We really appreciate your support!

20/08/2024

Exciting news! Thanks to Screen Australia for this support through the Enterprise Business program 🙏🏼

Magpie Pictures has outlined its next steps after being included in the latest round of Screen Australia Enterprise funding, welcoming Matthew Kelly as a consulting business executive and EP, and Claire Lindsay and Ree Evans in a shared development producer role.

26/07/2024

So inspiring to attend the Australians in Film Future Vision summit in Melbourne last week. Tony Ayres keynote was a highlight... if you didn't hear it have a read. As film and television creators and producers we have the power to be change makers... and the responsibility!

Thanks Tony and AiF and everyone involved in the event.

Showrunner Tony Ayres believes in the power of storytelling to change the way people see the world.

23/07/2024

Congratulations to the wonderful Anousha Zarkesh! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Congratulations to Anousha Zarkesh for her nomination!

“The International Casting Directors Association - ICDA is thrilled to announce Anousha Zarkesh as one of the nominee’s in the 2024 Semiramis Award for Excellence in Casting”

The award will be presented at Tirana Film Festival in Albania on 22nd September 2024.

Congratulations to all the nominees; Read more here https://the-icda.com/articles/2024/2024-semiramis-award-for-excellence-in-casting/

27/06/2024