Aquarius Films is an award-winning production company founded by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford which has built a reputation for bold, female-led projects, diversity both on and off the screen and intelligent, progressive, and inspiring stories. Aquarius produces high-quality films and television series for global audiences that are commercially successful and critically acclaimed.  

Film credits include the Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominated Lion, produced in association with See-Saw Films, and starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara; Berlin Syndrome, adapted by Shaun Grant, directed by award-winning filmmaker Cate Shortland and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt, which premiered at Sundance and Berlinale and sold to Netflix; Dirt Music, adapted from Tim Winton’s much-loved novel by Jack Thorne, directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham and Wish You Were Here, starring Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer, which premiered at Sundance and won two Australian Academy of Cinema and TV (AACTA) Awards, including Best Screenplay, and five Film Critics Circle Awards, including Best Film.

Romantic drama series Love Me starring Hugo Weaving, by Aquarius for Warner Bros. Australia and Foxtel’s BINGE, premiered in the USA on Hulu in April 2021, and premiered on BINGE in December 2021. Mini-series The Unusual Suspects starring Miranda Otto and Aina Dumlao is streaming on Hulu and premiered on SBS in June 2021 and their 10 x 30’ YA series for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Born To Spy, premiered in December 2021. Additional television credits include The Other Guy Seasons 1 & 2, a 6 x 30’ comedy-drama, for Stan and Hulu starring Matt Okine, Valene Kane and Harriet Dyer and The Unlisted, a 15 x 30’ YA sci-fi thriller for Netflix and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Aquarius’ most recent production Savage River, a 6 x 1’ crime drama series directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Katherine Langford, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which premiered 4 September 2022. 

Aquarius Films’ production and development slate include; feature films The Good People, based on the award-winning novel by Hannah Kent and co-produced with Port Pictures, Paradise, based on award-winning journalist Abdul Karim Hekmat’s haunting article True Love in Nauru published in The Monthly; Most Admired Woman based on the acclaimed biography Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, co-produced with Decade Films; sci-fi thriller The Subjugate based on the acclaimed novel of the same title written by award-winner Amanda Bridgeman and co-produced with Anonymous Content; a co-production with Rose Byrne’s Dollhouse Pictures for the psychological thriller series The Geography of Friendship, based on Sally Piper’s best-selling novel, for Stan and Lionsgate and the comedy-drama series Fight Like a Girl adapted from the acclaimed novel of the same title by Clementine Ford.

Aquarius Films is the recipient of the 2018 NSW Creative Laureate and the winner of the 2018 SPA Screen Business Export of the Year Award.

In 2022 Aquarius was nominated for two SPA awards; Screen Business Export of the Year and Telemovie or Mini-series Production of the Year for their production The Unusual Suspects.