Press release from Candid
New Chippendale production house, Candid Projects “Candid”, officially launches today providing a range of production services to Sydney creative agencies and brands.
Quietly created in mid 2011 Candid has already delivered a 12 part adventure travel documentary series “Aussie Way Up”, for National Geographic Channel and numerous branded content projects, most notably “Kiwi Sceptics”, the recently acclaimed Air New Zealand four part web series for ad agency ‘Host’.
Candid Projects was founded by Jo Melling, a long term Sydney Freelance Producer with 15 years industry experience in TV and event production. Jo has worked at numerous agencies and production companies across the city and prior to that in London. Her previous work includes high profile TV series (Long Way Round, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green), TVC’s (ING, Xbox, Médecins Sans Frontières) and Events (the Award Winning ‘Alienware Clan Challenge’, ‘Rosemount Australian Fashion Week’ for Rosemount and ‘MTV Japan Jam’). She also produced an independent Australian feature film, ‘Who Pays the Hitman’ which is currently on the festival circuit and recently won ‘Best Drama’ at a Californian film festival.
Clients already include MTV, Momentum, One Partners, Host, Jamboree, and Jack Watts Currie, who have commissioned work for their brand clients including Nike, Heineken, Lion Nathan, Panadol, Sensodyne and Air New Zealand. Jo and her team have a number of TV and film projects in development.
Key production service offering:
Branded content – online and TV
TVC
Events & Experiential
Film
“We have the unique offering of proven experience across all aspects of production so if creative requires a number of aspects we fully understand how they work, and how they can work best together. To this we added a friendly, honest and efficient work ethic that has proved itself a very convenient formula for our clients.”
Jo Melling, Candid Founder and Exec. Producer
Candid also partners with overseas production companies to facilitate their Australian filming requirements such as visas, research, crew and kit support. In the last six months we have welcomed Tigress Productions (Freddie Flintoff: Into the Wild), Silver River productions (Spike Milligan Documentary) and Kanakna (Pekin Express Series 7).
Candid is now welcoming the opportunity to quote on new briefs and collaborate with peers.