Prospero Productions is an Australian-based television production company based in

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specialising in maritime documentaries and light entertainment.

Background

Prospero Productions was formed in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1991 by Ed Punchard and Julia Redwood. It is now owned solely by Juila Redwood. Their latest production is Ningaloo: Australia's Other Great Reef. Using a mini-submersible, filming took place at

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and features marine scientist Anna Cresswell. The production is filmed in 4K and will be screened on dome screens. The production premieres at the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle in late December 2018. In early 2016,

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would pick up two of Prospero's productions, Railroad Australia would play on Discovery Asia while ''

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'' will play on Discovery Italy and Discovery Canada. ''Outback Truckers'' would view on

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and on

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. In their production

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in Islands of Oz, a three-part documentary series, featured on Channel Seven in October 2016 and explored the remote and spectacular islands around Australia.

Productions

* ''Whale Super Highway'' (2019) * ''Outback Truckers Season 7'' (2019) * ''Ningaloo: Australia's Other Great Reef'' (2018) * ''Outback Opal Hunters'' (2018–19) * ''Outback Truckers Season 6'' (2018) * ''Outback Truckers Season 5'' (2017) * ''Railroad Australia Season 2'' (2017) * ''Islands of Oz'' (2016) * ''Outback Pilots'' (2016) * ''Outback Truckers Season 4'' (2016) * ''Outback Truckers Season 3'' (2015) * ''Railroad Australia'' (2016–18) * ''Wild Survivor'' (2014) * ''The Real Jaws'' (2014) * ''Australia - Life on the Edge'' (2013) * ''Change My Race'' (2013) * ''Outback Truckers Season Two'' (2013) * ''Outback Truckers'' (2012) * ''Vet School'' (2012) * ''Jack the Ripper - Australia's Killer'' (2011) * ''The Man Who Jumped'' (2011) * ''Ned's Head'' (2011) * ''Dino Stampede'' (2011) * ''SAS - The Search For Warriors'' (2011) * ''Pirate Patrol'' (2010) * ''Gallipoli's Deep Secrets'' (2010) * ''Every Family's Nightmare'' (2009) * ''Heartbreak Science'' (2009) * ''Navy Divers'' (2009) * ''Death of the Megabeasts'' (2008) * ''The Snake Crusader'' (2008) * ''Eco House Challenge'' (2007) * ''Pipe Dreams'' (2007) * ''Kindness of Strangers'' (2006) * ''Shipwreck Detectives 2'' (2005) * ''Aussie Animal Rescue 2'' (2004) * ''The Snakebuster'' (2003) * ''Shipwreck Detectives'' (2002) * ''Aussie Animal Rescue'' (2001) * ''Selling Australia'' (2000) * ''Diving School'' (1999) * ''Paying For The Piper'' (1998) * ''Home of the Blizzard'' (1997) * ''Hutan: Wildlife of the Malaysian Rainforest'' (1996) * ''Shipwreck Coast Part 2: The Gelignite Bucaneer'' (1995) * ''Shipwreck Coast Part 1: The Batavia - Wreck, Mutiny & Murder'' (1994) * ''No Survivors'' ()

Honours and awards

In 1998, Prospero was nominate for an

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for its production of ''Paying For The Piper''. ''Paying for the Piper'' would also feature at the ''United Nations Association Film Festival'' (2000), ''Golden Gate Awards - San Francisco Film Society'' (2000) and the ''International Festival of Maritime and Exploration Film'' (1999). Prospero Production would win the 2007 Australian Government's

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for Science Journalism for ''The Kindness of Strangers''. In 2011, Prospero won the

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for its production of ''SAS - The Search for Warriors''. The ''Eco House'' production would win an ''Australian Teachers of Media Inc'' award in 2007 and was a finalist in the ''United Nations World Environment Day Awards''. ''Diving School'' would play at the ''Golden Gate Awards - San Francisco Film Society'' in 2001. In 2015, ''Australia- Life on the Edge'' won a Gold Prestige Film Award for Short Documentary. On 4 June 2021, Julia Redwood won the business category in the 2021 West Australian of the Year Awards.

References

External links

Prospero Production's Official Site
{{Authority control Television production companies of Australia Mass media companies established in 1991