Awards

Prospero Productions and our affiliates have been widely recognised for our work – both by the film industry and those industries we have touched through our films.

Eureka Award for Science Journalism for the production

SAS: The Search For Warriors

  • Winner of the 2011 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award for the Best Documentary Series

Heartbreak Science

  • 2010 Houston Worldfest Remi Awards
    Platinum Award – TV & Cable Productions: Craft – Sound & Sound Design
    Gold Award – TV & Cable Productions: Documentary

Death of the Megabeats

  • Winner Gold Remi Award Best Documentary,TV & Cable Productions: Craft – use of HD, World-fest Houston Film Festival
  • Winner Best Special Effects, Archaeology Channel Film & Video Festival, United States
  • Honourable Mention, Best Narration, Archaeology Channel Film & Video Festival, United States
  • Honourable Mention, Best Animation, Archaeology Channel Film & Video Festival, United States
  • Nominated Best Director, Documentary category, Gold Panda Awards, China
  • Nominated Rockie Award, Best Wildlife & Natural History, 2010 Banff World Television Festival, Canada
  • Nominated Best Director, Documentary category, Gold Panda Awards, China
  • Nominated Best Visual Effects, Feature category, AFI Awards, Australia
  • Highly Commended, Best Natural History Documentary, Asian Television Awards, Singapore
  • Finalist Best Science, Technology & Environment, Documentary, ATOM Awards, Australia
  • Finalist APRA/AGSC Screen Music Award, Documentary Section, Australia

Every Family’s Nightmare

  • 2010 Houston Worldfest Remi Awards
    Gold Remi – TV & Cable Productions: Documentary
    Gold Remi – TV & Cable Productions: TV Series Documentary

Eco House Challenge

  • ATOM Award Winner – Best Multi-Modal Production
  • ATOM Award Finalist – Best Documentary: Science, Technology & the Environment
  • Banksia Award Finalist – Education Award
  • Banksia People’s Choice Award Finalist
  • Houston International Film Festival, Bronze Remi Award for Reality-Based Production

The Kindness of Strangers

  • Australian Museum’s Eureka Prize for Science Journalism 2007
  • Houston International Film Festival, Bronze Remi Award for Information Programming

Shipwreck Detectives Series II, Ep 3: Teardrop Of Treasure

  • Australian Cinematographers Society Award – Documentary, Cinema and TV (awarded to Director of Photography, Malcolm Ludgate)

Navy Divers

  • Australian Cinematographers Society Award – Documentary, Cinema and TV (awarded to Director of Photography, Malcolm Ludgate)

Diving School

  • San Francisco International Film Festival 2001, Certificate of Merit “Television – Society and Culture”

Selling Australia

  • Chicago International Television Competition 2001, Certificate of Merit

Hutan – Wildlife of the Malaysian Rainforest

  • New York Film Festival 1998, Silver World Medal “Best Wildlife Documentary”
  • International Wildlife Film Festival 1999, “Best Editing”, “Best Cinematography”, “Best of Category”, Merit awards for sound mix, use of music, storytelling, narration, script, recording of natural sound

Paying for the Piper

  • AFI Award nominations, Best Documentary, Best Editor

Shipwreck Coast – Part 1 and Part 2

  • Honorary Mention 1995, International Maritime and Exploration Film Festival, Toulon France

No Survivors

  • Winner 1994, International Maritime and Exploration Film Festival, Toulon France