Matchbox Pictures
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Matchbox Pictures is a film and television production company with production houses in Melbourne, Sydney, and Singapore.[1][2] It was formed in 2008 by Tony Ayres, Penny Chapman, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon and Helen Panckhurst. In 2011, NBCUniversal took a majority stake in Matchbox Pictures, and full ownership by January 2014.[3]
Matchbox Pictures is led by Chris Oliver-Taylor (Managing Director), Debbie Lee (Director of Scripted Development), Penny Chapman (Producer), Tony Ayres (Producer/Director), Kylie Washington (Director for Unscripted Content), Helen Panckhurst (Head of Production), Michael McMahon (Commercial Director), and Tom Chatwin (Finance Director).
Productions
Scripted
Film
- The Home Song Stories (2007)
- Lou (2010)
- The Turning – Cockleshell (2013)
- Cut Snake (2014)
- Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows (2016)
- Ali's Wedding (2016)
Television
- Saved (2009, television film)
- My Place (2009–11)
- The Slap (2011)
- The Straits (2012)
- Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012, television film)
- Camp (2013)
- Zuzu & the Supernuffs (2013)
- Nowhere Boys (2013–present)
- Old School (2014)
- Devil's Playground (2014)
- Maximum Choppage (2015)
- Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
- Glitch (2015)
- Stories I Want to Tell You in Person (2015)
- The Family Law (2016)
- Wanted (2016)
- Secret City (2016)
- Stateless
Non-scripted
- Anatomy (2008–13)
- Darwin's Lost Paradise (2009)
- Miss South Sudan Australia (2010)
- Mrs Carey's Concert (2011)
- Leaky Boat (2011)
- Sex: An Unnatural History (2011)
- The Swimmer (2012)
- Next Stop Hollywood (2013)
- Formal Wars (2013)
- Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy (2013)
- The Real Housewives of Melbourne (2014–present)
- Deadline Gallipoli: The Full Story (2015)
- Room 101 (2015)
- E! News Asia Special – Erin Goes to Hollywood (2015)
- How Do I Look? Asia (2015)
- E! Top 5 Philippines (2015)
- The Real Housewives of Auckland (TBA)