WINDCATCHER

(2024)

WATCH OUR LATEST PROJECT, NOW STREAMING ON Stan.

a heartwarming family feature film and Stan’s first co-commission with ACTF




UNLESS PICTURES



WE ARE A CREATIVE PRODUCTION COMPANY
MAKING INNOVATIVE* & ORIGINAL** WORKS



*Upending the old, subverting the new, and being open to being wrong.  **Singular. With a worldview.



Unless Pictures is a creative screen production company, operating out of Sydney & Brisbane. Founded by International Emmy® award-winning producer Meg O’Connell in 2019, Unless has produced a half-hour comedy series for ABC; developed a digital series for SnapChat; executive produced six short films; had four long-form projects commissioned for development (with Netflix, SBS, and Screen Australia); & produced a feature film (for Stan).

EMAIL US AT


opportunities@unlesspictures.com
to talk shop, trash and anything else.



Unless Pictures acknowledges the unceded lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples (Canberra), Jagera and Turrbal peoples (Brisbane/ Meeanjin) and the Gadigal peoples of the Eora Nation (Sydney), where we live and work. We honour Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders, this country’s first storytellers, whose lands and waterways we all now share. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.






WINDCATCHER 

(2024)

a heartwarming family feature film and Stan’s first co-commission with ACTF

Trailer • Watch on Stan

PRODUCED BY UNLESS PICTURES & EVERY CLOUD PRODUCTIONS 

Writer: Boyd Quakawoot
Director: Tanith Glynn-Maloney
Producers: Meg O’Connell and Drew Grove
EPs: Bernadette O’Mahony for ACTF, and Cailah Scobie and Rachel Okine for Stan

Major production investment from Screen Australia and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation in association with Stan. Developed with investment from Screen Queensland. ACTF will handle worldwide distribution.







RIDE SHORTS 

(2021)

executive produced 6 short films from diverse Qld creatives through the RIDE shorts program

Thea Goes To Town • IMDB
When the Sky Was Blue • IMDB • Watch on SBS
The Moths Will Eat Them Up • IMDB
Sunshine • IMDB
Dawg & The Stonefish
Generations of Men • IMDB

BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021

RIDE Partners Screen Queensland, SBS, Madman Entertainment and The Post Lounge





NO ORDINARY BLACK SHORTS 

(2021)

two short films shot in Alice Springs, produced by powerhouse Tanith Glynn-Maloney

Finding Jedda • IMDB
Shiny One • IMDB

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED WITH ORANGE ENTERTAINMENT CO. for NITV

Writer/Directors: Viviana Petyarre, Tanith Glynn-Maloney
Producers: Tanith Glynn-Maloney
EPs: Meg O’Connell, Dan Lake, Kurt Royan
Associate Producer: Stephanie Westwood, Jackson Lapsley Scott






CONSENSUS GENTIUM

(2021)

executive produced and screen-life produced an immersive digital experience for the BFI, directed by futurist-artist, Karen Palmer

Teaser • IMDB

Writer, Director: Karen Palmer 
Executive Producer: Meg O’Connell
Screen Life Producer: Jackson Lapley Scott






RETROGRADE

(2020)

a six-part narrative comedy about a group of 30-somethings drowning their sorrows in a virtual bar

ABC TV & IVIEW • WATCH • IMDB • TRAILER
CO-PRODUCED WITH ORANGE ENTERTAINMENT CO.

Produced by Unless Pictures and Orange Entertainment Co.
Creators: Mark O’Toole and Meg O’Connell
Producers: Meg O’Connell, Dan Lake and Jackson Lapsley Scott
EPs: Meg O’Connell, Kurt Royan, Que Minh Luu and Andrew Gregory
Writers: Anna Barnes, Declan Fay, Michelle Lee and Meg O’Connell
Director: Natalie Bailey
with Pallavi Sharda, Ilai Swindells, Maria Angelico, Esther Hannaford, Max Brown and Nick Boshier





MODERN ANXIETY

(2019)

a music video for UK recording artist Josef Salvat set entirely within the UI of an iPhone

SONY MUSIC UK • WATCH

Produced by Unless Pictures
Directors: Meg O’Connell & Joseph Salvat
Producers: Meg O’Connell & Jackson Lapsley Scott


+ A DIVERSE SLATE OF ORIGINAL WORK 
IN DEVELOPMENT