Northern Pictures was crowned Production Business of the Year at this evening’s Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards, while also taking home further gongs for See What You Made Do and Love on the Spectrum. The Sydney-based company triumphed in a field that included Bunya Productions, Hoodlum Entertainment, Jungle Entertainment and WildBear Entertainment.

Last night, Northern Pictures was awarded Media Super Production Business of the Year at the 20th Annual Screen Producers Australia Awards held at the Star Event Centre on the Gold Coast. This prestigious award recognises a production business that has produced an outstanding body of work and has contributed to the advancement of the screen industry over the last 12 months.

In 2021 Jess and the team from Northern Pictures journeyed into Australian homes to explore a national crisis, domestic abuse, with See What You Made Me Do. In this bold, new, thesis driven series, Jess will use first-person testimony to explore the status of consent in Australia, following an explosive year of this issue in the headlines.

The Exhibitionists – review ★★★★

The main problem with The Exhibitionists – the final in a suite of programs from the ABC in support of the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name initiative – is that it leaves you wanting more.

Acclaimed director, writer, producer, and Head of Factual at Northern Pictures, Karina Holden is the recipient of the 2021 Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award, announced at the Closing Night of the 68th Sydney Film Festival.

Love on the Spectrum and Strong Female Lead have been nominated at the prestigious 60th annual Rose d’Or Awards.

Northern Pictures have been nominated for four awards at this year’s AACTA Awards: Strong Female Lead – Best Documentary; Love on the Spectrum (Season 2) – Best Factual Entertainment Program; Love on the Spectrum (Season 2) – Best Direction in Nonfiction Television (Cian O’Clery); and Hardball (Season 2) – Best Children’s Program.

After The Wildfires has won Best Environmental Film at the 2021 Newport Beach Film Festival

Love on the Spectrum has won a Gold medal in the Documentary (Human Concerns) category, at this year’s New York Festivals.

After The Wildfires has won Best Conservation Film at the 2021 Jackson Hole Media Awards. Nature film’s equivalent to the Oscars®, the Jackson Wild Media Awards™ celebrate excellence and innovation in nature, science and conservation storytelling.

See What You Made Me Do is one of six outstanding documentaries have been longlisted for the 2021 Walkley Documentary Award. All six films tackle different themes, are in different styles and highlight different modes of documentary storytelling, but all help to showcase the very best in Australian long-form journalism.

Strong Female Lead is in competition for the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF) Award for Australian Documentary at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.

Tom Weekly Versus…, a 20-part live-action series for ViacomCBS based on the best-selling book series by Tristan Bancks, has received Screen Australia funding.

Strong Female Lead nominated for Best Documentary at the 2021 AACTA Awards

Love on the Spectrum wins Best Relationship Show at the 2021 Critics Choice TV Awards.

Love on the Spectrum has won Best Lifestyle Program at the 2021 BANFF Rockies.

Award-winning filmmaker Daniel King has been named the inaugural recipient of the Indigenous Documentary Placement, a new initiative co-presented by the ABC, Northern Pictures and the Australian Documentary Conference (AIDC) to fast-track the careers of Indigenous nonfiction screen practitioners.

After an Emmy win and both local and international success with Hardball, Northern Pictures is developing a new children’s project with one of its co-creators, Guy Edmonds.

Northern Pictures is co-developing a live-action teen show Dance Spies with Canadian prodco Sinking Ships.

Jess Hill has spent the past seven years reporting on domestic abuse, recognised for her book See What You Made Me Do. This month sees the release of a three-part docuseries bearing the same name. She writes here about why it’s crucial for Australia to criminalise coercive control and how we can harness positive change seen overseas.