IGUANA FILMS PRODUCTIONS
Iguana Films productions cover a wide range of topics from social issues, personal history and cultural heritage. They develop programmes with a range of formats from gritty reality series, to moving humanitarian documentaries. As well, their educational and corporate work is of the highest standard. Their productions have resulted in wide industry recognition through the Sydney Film Festival: Dendy Award; the Australian Film Institute (AFI) nominations, and, in competition for the International Television Science Festival, Paris, 2004.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER • DIRECTOR • WRITER • Paul Roy
A highly regarded director, writer and producer, Paul Roy has been the principal cameraman on all Iguana Films documentaries and series over the last decade. Paul is also an award winning film maker and in 1997 received the coveted Dendy Award at the Sydney Film Festival for his Aboriginal Health film A Dying Shame More recently Riddle of the Bradshaws (for SBS TV).was selected for competition in the 21st International Television Science Festival in Paris
Paul is co-director, with Jenny Ainge of Iguana Films Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Iguana Films Ltd (NZ). As well as Paul's respected technical and artistic skills, his outstanding rapport and sensitivity when dealing with people of all generations has given him access to some incredible stories and situations around the world.
Paul has just returned from location in Zimbabwe shooting his new SBS series Journos on Australian foreign correspondents.
DIRECTOR • PRODUCER • INTERVIEWER • Jenny Ainge
Jenny Ainge has over 25 years experience in the broadcasting industry as a researcher, writer and producer. Jenny was nominated for AFI writing award for her Film Australia production, Malpractice, with Bill Bennet.
She is a co-director of Iguana Films Pty Ltd and her most recent producing credits include: The Sexual Life of Us, (SBS 2008. Sydney Morning Herald “Pick of the Week”, 7th March , 2008), Kimberley Cops (ABC Reality Bites series, 2003), Riddle of the Bradshaws (SBS, 2004) and Reef Dreams (ABC series, 2005)
Since working at London Weekend Television in the 1980s with her colleagues Greg Dyke (former Head of BBC), Alex Graham (Wall to Wall) and Michael Atwell (Chairman of BAFTA), Jenny has maintained strong links with the international television community. This has led to Iguana Films regularly being commissioned by British and German TV to produce Australian and New Zealand based stories.
Through these British contacts Jenny was introduced to the pioneering oral history films of Stephen Humphries at Testimony Films. It was this work which inspired Jenny to make the series The Sexual Life of Us on Australian sexuality and now, Girls Own War Stories and the forthcoming A History of Teenage Romance.
DIRECTOR • Greg Stitt
Greg Stitt is a highly experienced documentary film director with over 30 years in the industry.
After completing post-graduate degrees at Auckland and Edinburgh Universities, Greg joined the New Zealand National Film Unit. He has directed over 30 documentaries and has won Best Short Film at New York Film Festival 1981, Best Documentary, New Zealand TV Awards 1986, Award of Excellence, Chicago 1995. His recent project Diverted to Delhi screened on the ABC and has been sold to over twenty countries.
Both Greg Stitt and Jenny Ainge co direct and co produce the history documentaries for Iguana Films and collaborate closely on the company’s educational and corporate production slate.
