Paul Wiegard

Filmes

The Mountain
Executive Producer
Explores the journey of three young people as they seek solace under the watchful gaze of the Taranaki mountain and companionship in the spirit of adventure.
The Giants
Producer
A portrait of environmental folk hero & gay icon Bob Brown, who took green politics to the center of power. His story is interwoven with the life cycle of the ancient trees he's fighting for.
Transfusão
Executive Producer
A história de um pai e seu filho tentando se reconectar após uma perda devastadora. O filho, atolado em culpa por uma escolha que nunca fez, e um pai sofrendo de TEPT e sem identidade após se aposentar do Regimento do Serviço Aéreo Especial do Exército Australiano. Em sua última chance com a lei, o pai é jogado no submundo do crime por um ex-irmão do SAS para impedir que seu único filho seja tirado dele.
Merkel
Executive Producer
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German – became the de facto leader of the “Free World”, told for the first time for an international audience.
Blind Ambition
Executive Producer
The inspiring story of four Zimbabwean men who form their country’s first Wine Tasting Olympics team and the mission that drives them to compete.
Shane
Executive Producer
For a guy who grew up thinking only of Australian Rules football, it’s almost an accident that Shane Warne became the greatest cricketer of a generation, and one of the greats of all time. Mastering the difficult art of spin bowling after being kicked out of football for not being a good enough player proved a pivotal choice for 19 year old Shane – declared unfit and fat, he transformed himself. When success came, so did fame and adulation, money and prestige but a betting scandal, drugs scandal, and affairs that cost him his marriage, threatened his career. From the lows of a 12 month ban he rebuilt his cricket, his career, and his reputation as one of the most ferocious competitors on the planet, admired and revered by millions.
Nitram
Executive Producer
Os eventos que levaram á massacre de Port Arthur em 1996 na Tasmânia, numa tentativa de entender por que e como a atrocidade ocorreu.
A Força dos Rios
Executive Producer
O documentário propõe uma reflexão cinematográfica e musical sobre como os rios moldaram as paisagens do planeta e de toda a existência humana.
Brincando com Tubarões
Executive Producer
A vida da conservacionista da vida selvagem Valerie Taylor, uma lenda viva e verdadeira pioneira tanto em produções subaquáticas quanto no estudo de tubarões.
Uma Viagem para Grécia
Executive Producer
Dois amigos comediantes embarcam para Grécia seguindo os passos de Odisseu. Aproveitando as paisagens e delicias do mediterrâneo, a dupla diverte com seu humor diabolicamente ácido.
The Australian Dream
Executive Producer
AFL legend Adam Goodes shares the story of his life and career to offer a deeper insight into race, identity, and belonging.
Below
Executive Producer
In a near-future, darknet grifter Dougie is recruited to work security at a refugee detention centre. There, he is drawn into an underground operation blackmailing detainees to fight for profit. When tragedy strikes courageous fighter Azad, Dougie locates his hitherto dormant conscience and takes a stand.
The Leunig Fragments
Executive Producer
With an anarchic and life-affirming heart, this documentary feature celebrates self-expression, friendship, life and death, and the power of the imagination to ignite, enrage, heal and inspire. With exclusive, intimate access to Michael Leunig - one of Australia’s most renowned artists - we reveal the man behind the household name.
2040
Executive Producer
Preocupado com o futuro da filha, o cineasta Damon Gameau viaja o mundo em busca de novas abordagens e soluções para as mudanças climáticas. Ele se reúne com inovadores e agentes de mudança em muitos campos para criar uma visão de como essas medidas poderiam regenerar o mundo para as gerações futuras.
Mystify: Michael Hutchence
Executive Producer
Michael Hutchence was flying high as the lead singer of the legendary rock band INXS until his untimely death in 1997. Richard Lowenstein’s documentary examines Hutchence’s deeply felt life through his many loves and demons.
Mountain
Executive Producer
Apenas três séculos atrás, escalar uma montanha seria considerado perto da loucura. A idéia quase não existia que paisagens selvagens pudessem ter qualquer tipo de atração. Os picos eram lugares de perigo e não de beleza. Por que, então, estamos atraídos para as montanhas aos milhões? A MONTANHA nos mostra a força fascinante de lugares altos - e seu poder contínuo para moldar nossas vidas e nossos sonhos.
Spookers
Executive Producer
Documentary from Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht on the most successful haunted attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, Auckland’s Spookers.
Jasper Jones
Executive Producer
Jasper Jones é uma história de amadurecimento sobre Charlie Bucktin, um menino estudioso de 14 anos. Na noite em que Jasper Jones mostra-lhe o cadáver da jovem Laura Wishart, a vida de Charlie é mudada para sempre. Confiado com este segredo e acreditando que Jasper seja inocente, Charlie embarca em uma perigosa viagem para encontrar o verdadeiro assassino. Ambientado no verão escaldante de 1968, Charlie derrota os racistas locais, enfrenta a separação de seus pais e se apaixona perdidamente enquanto ele descobre o que significa ser verdadeiramente corajoso.
A Month of Sundays
Executive Producer
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
Ruben Guthrie
Executive Producer
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
That Sugar Film
Executive Producer
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
That Sugar Film
Producer
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
Co-Executive Producer
In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, a titanic feat of physical and mental endurance that no rider has repeated since. He was a hero to millions, the saviour of cycling following the doping scandals which threatened to destroy the sport. However, less than six years later, aged just 34, he died alone, in a cheap hotel room, from acute cocaine poisoning. He had been an addict for five years. This is the story of the tragic battles fought by the most important Italian cyclist of his generation; man verses mountain, athlete verses addiction, Marco Pantani verses himself.
A Virada
Executive Producer
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
O Caçador
Executive Producer
Martin é um mercenário enviado à Austrália por uma empresa internacional de biotecnologia para caçar um animal considerado extinto: o tigre da Tasmânia. Ele se instala na casa de Lucy, mãe de Sass e Bike, mulher de um zoólogo que desapareceu na floresta também em busca do animal. Mantendo sua missão em segredo, ele começa a procura pelo tigre. A sua relação com a família e a força da natureza ao seu redor vão fazer com que Martin comece a questionar as consequências de sua missão.
Tom Ballard: Is What He Is
Executive Producer
Tom is a gay. He is from Warrnambool. He is a comedian. In Is What He Is, Tom Ballard gives a candid account of coming to terms with his private bits in the 21st century. Tom's debut solo show is a hilarious hour of personal storytelling that will make you laugh, think, squirm and come to love your fellow human.
Charlie Pickering - Live At The Time of Recording
Executive Producer
You may recognise Charlie from Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation or The 7p.m Project. But before he became one of Australian TV's most famous faces he built an international reputation as one of Australia's best stand-up comedians. With sold-out shows around the world and every city in Australia Live At The Time Of Recording is a collection of Charlie's favourite stories and hilarious jokes from his years on the stage.
My Year Without Sex
Executive Producer
A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical procedure.
The Dirty Three
Executive Producer
The Dirty Three are the rough and ready jewels in the crown of Australian rock and roll history. Born from the need to put food on the table and spawned from the intensely collaborative local Australian music scene in the 80's and early 90's, the Dirty Three pioneered the instrumental rock and roll music scene in Australia with their cathartic, sometimes violent and always spellbinding brand of music. Within a few short years, they achieved local and international success and left Australian shores to take their Music to the world. To this day the band continues to tour the world and serve the music that they see as a real, living and breathing thing that chooses the Dirty Three's custodianship.