FINCH Entertainment
FINCH produces culturally significant documentary and scripted entertainment for all platforms. We specialise in ambitious projects built on great ideas and unique perspectives. We collaborate with filmmakers and creators around the world who share our passion for bringing extraordinary stories to the screen with uncompromising craft and execution.
Facilitation
We are more than line producers. We are your creative partners. As the largest production company in Australia and New Zealand, we have the wisdom of many years, and thousands of jobs, including Chef’s Table, Hornback, Cisco, Vodafone, and Nintendo, with partners who include MJZ, Somesuch, and Anonymous.
Songbird Studios
A sister company of FINCH, Songbird Studios produces creatively ambitious documentaries about extraordinary people.
Songbird Studios’ work has been recognised with honours including the Sundance U.S Documentary Grand Jury Prize, the Grammy Award® for Best Music Film, the Critics Choice Documentary Award, an Academy Awards® Nomination, the Tribeca Audience Award, the African-American Film Critics Award, and the Cinema Eye Audience Award. Their films have premiered at some of the world’s most lauded film festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Berlinale, Tribeca, SXSW, Doc NYC, Sydney and Melbourne.
m ss ng p eces
FINCH is excited to announce our partnership with m ss ng p eces, bringing world class immersive experiences to Australia and New Zealand.
m ss ng p eces leads the globe in ground-breaking immersive experiences that impact culture. They are a creative force to be reckoned with, having created some of the most innovative work the industry has seen. Storytelling is at the heart of everything they do, as they push the limits of experiential, product, mobile, gaming, future tech, AI and OOH. They embrace new processes, platforms and technology to break through creative barriers and connect with audiences.
By bringing our production services to their cutting edge technology and experiences, we can find new ways to make the impossible possible.
36 Months
Within hours of launching, 36 Months created a media storm and caught the nation’s attention, garnering support from educators, parents, brands and politicians, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. With over 91,000 petition signatures our campaign for policy change is building momentum. But 36 Months is more than simply raising the age of social media citizenship, it’s about preparing teenagers to be resilient and mindful social media citizens.
We’re raising an anxious generation. Excessive social media use is rewiring young brains within a critical window of psychological development, causing an epidemic of mental illness. Kids need more time to develop healthy and secure identities before they’re exposed to the minefield of social media. We’re urging the government to change policy and raise the threshold for social media citizenship. This means delaying the age teenagers can sign up for social media accounts from 13 to 16 – 36 Months.
Creatable
A number of years ago, FINCH’s CEO discovered there were no technology classes at his daughter’s all-girls high school. Around this time, our technology partner, Nakatomi, had sixty-seven applicants for an engineering role. Only two were women. We realised that the lack of diversity in STEM needed to be addressed via the education pipeline, so we co-founded Creatable on the premise of a world that leaves no one behind.
Today, Creatable is a subscription-based teacher development platform that looks where others aren’t for ways to make education better. It draws on FINCH’s storytelling to create original content which connects teachers and their students to companies shaping the future of work.
Read more about Creatable.
The Lion's Share
In 2018, director Christopher Nelius brought an idea to FINCH – what if each time an animal appeared in an ad, the brand made a donation towards conservation? Together, we co-founded The Lion’s Share with the UNDP.
The Lion’s Share aims to raise over USD 100 million per year by asking brands to contribute 0.5% of their media spend whenever an animal is featured in their adverts. Since then, The Lion’s Share has supported more than 20 conservation and animal welfare organisations through programmes and projects in 15 countries.
Nakatomi
Nakatomi has brought together experts in the tech-related disciplines most relevant to the future, because unique problems call for uncommon thinking. They work under four umbrellas. Think, Make, Play & XP.
Nakatomi is FINCH’s technology partner.
Read more about Nakatomi.
Atticus
Atticus is an ensemble of post artists, born of FINCH’s passion for storytelling and innovation. With edit, grade, online, and VFX, Atticus gives FINCH’s creative partners a singular creative solution, with one team crafting one vision from treatment to picture lock. Craft without compromise.