Aquarius Films Pty

Aquarius Films is an award-winning production company founded by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford, which has built a reputation for bold, female-led projects, diversity both on and off the screen and intelligent, progressive, and inspiring stories. Aquarius produces high-quality films and television series for global audiences that are commercially successful and critically acclaimed. Film credits include the Academy Award®, and Golden Globe-nominated Lion, produced in association with See-Saw Films, and starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara; Berlin Syndrome, adapted by Shaun Grant, directed by award-winning filmmaker Cate Shortland and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt, which premiered at Sundance and Berlinale and sold to Netflix; Dirt Music, adapted from Tim Winton’s much-loved novel by Jack Thorne, directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham and Wish You Were Here, starring Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer, which premiered at Sundance and won two Australian Academy of Cinema and TV (AACTA) Awards, including Best Screenplay, and five Film Critics Circle Awards, including Best Film. Aquarius Films is the recipient of the 2018 NSW Creative Laureate and the winner of the 2018 SPA Screen Business Export of the Year Award. In 2022 Aquarius is nominated for two SPA awards; Screen Business Export of the Year and Telemovie or Mini-series Production of the Year for their production The Unusual Suspects.