A new independent production company has launched in Sydney under the stewardship of Emmy-nominated director and writer, Sally Aitken (“Playing With Sharks”), and producer and media executive Aline Jacques (“Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story”).
SAM Content will develop and produce all genres of unscripted and scripted projects for domestic platforms and the international marketplace.
The company already has four projects in various stages of production with Australian broadcasters and screen agencies.
One such project is an untitled Wiggles project in partnership with Augusto Entertainment’s Cass Avery and Daniel Story.
In addition, it’s working on “Inconceivable: The Secret Business of Breeding Humans”, an SBS documentary about investigative journalist Sarah Dingle, who discovered her mother was impregnated with an anonymous donor sperm.
Both the Wiggles project and “Inconceivable” have production funding from Screen Australia.
There’s also an architecture series and a music feature documentary in the works.
The joint founders of SAM Content, Aitken and Jacques, said: “We’re thrilled to have a dynamic new home for our wide range of passions, interests and curiosities and look forward to continuing to grow our slate of documentary and drama projects with other like-minded creatives.
“With several projects underway and a pile more in development and imagination, our door is open to filmmakers both experienced and emerging to come and say hello to SAM, a place of trust, bold ideas and plenty of humour in realising great stories.”