Richard Todd

IMPACT PRODUCER, ACQUARIUS PRODUCTIONS

Aquarius Productions is an award winning Western Australian company based in Margaret River, that produces provocative factual programming, specialising in character driven, social issues and conservation documentaries that have a positive impact on people, society and the environment. The company’s director Richard Todd is attracted to stories that require a very close and personal relationship with a central character. As a director and cameraman he has a passion for being ‘let in’ to complex and difficult to film situations in a pursuit to reveal story lines closer to the bone. His first film, Whaleshark Gypsy of the Deep, was the first conservation documentary on the plight of Whalesharks world wide. He was also one of the DOP/Field Directors for the Logie Nominated documentary Schapelle Corby-Ganja Queen. The first film he directed, filmed, produced and edited, was for the ABC Compass program, God Made Them Blind, which won Best Documentary at the Sun Valley Film Festival. He recently completed the feature documentary Frackman as the cameraman, co-producer and director, which was shot over five years and has won multiple awards and screened at over 200 cinemas throughout Australia. It was chosen as one of 6 documentaries in the inaugural Goodpitch in 2014. The Guardian rated it as one of the 10 best films made in Australia in 2015. His new documentary Dying To Live is currently in production and has been selected in the final instalment of Goodpitch 2016.