Sally Aitken, Aline Jacques Launch SAM Content material Australian Producer

Sally Aitken a two-time Emmy nominated author and director (“Taking part in with Sharks”) and producer and media govt Aline Jacques (“Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story”) have launched SAM Content material.

The Sydney-based impartial manufacturing firm will develop and produce all genres of unscripted and scripted tasks for native platforms and the worldwide market.

They open their doorways with 4 movie and TV exhibits in manufacturing with Australian broadcasters and display screen businesses.

They embrace an untitled Wiggles undertaking in partnership with Augusto Leisure’s Cass Avery and Daniel Story, and with funding from federal display screen company Display Australia. The Wiggles is a profitable youngsters’s musical group that has been on the scene for 30 years and has been concerned with each TV and movie.

SAM can also be readying “Inconceivable: The Secret Enterprise of Breeding People,” a documentary for SBS about investigative journalist Sarah Dingle’s discovery on the age of 27 that her mom was impregnated with an nameless donor sperm. It additionally has Display Australia backing.

Additionally being arrange are: an structure collection; and a feature-length music documentary. Extra tasks can be introduced within the coming months.

Aitken’s “Taking part in with Sharks” has been nominated for a 2022 Information & Documentary Emmy Award. The 2021 Sundance Movie Pageant hit follows the story of maverick conservationist Valerie Taylor and her love affair with the ocean’s most terrifying predator. Aitken’s debut characteristic “A Cinematic Life” appeared in official competitors on the Cannes Movie Pageant in 2017. Different main works embrace “Shark Seaside,” with Chris Hemsworth (2021); “The Pacific: Within the Wake of Captain Cook dinner, with Sam Neill” (2019); and 2015’s “Getting Frank Gehry.”

Jacques has developed and produced documentaries throughout a variety of genres for lots of the world’s main broadcasters and distributors together with the ABC, SBS, BBC, Nationwide Geographic, Arte, PBS, Curiosity Stream and Discovery. She has helmed worldwide co-productions and delivered applications resembling “The Pacific: Within the Wake of Captain Cook dinner with Sam Neill,” “Slim and I”; “Miriam Margolyes: Virtually Australian”; and “The Dwelling Universe.”

“We’re thrilled to have a dynamic new house for our big selection of passions, pursuits and curiosities and sit up for persevering with to develop our slate of documentary and drama tasks with different like-minded creatives,” stated Aitken and Jacques. “With a number of tasks underway and a pile extra in improvement and creativeness, our door is open to filmmakers each skilled and rising to return and say hi there to SAM, a spot of belief, daring concepts and loads of humor in realizing nice tales.”