Hill Street Productions is a creative production company that produces documentaries, short films, photography, video art, and commissions out of Adelaide, South Australia. Our projects have garnered critical acclaim, earning us awards from film festivals around the world, including the prestigious Australian Documentary Prize. We also collaborate with local and international organisations, production companies and individuals, providing them with a variety of production and post-production services in Australia and the US.
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Madeline Gordon
Writer/Producer
Madeline Gordon is a self-taught writer and director working across Australia and the USA. She has worked as a story producer and researcher on programs for Smithsonian Channel, CNN, and PBS. She is currently in post-production on her debut feature THE ARK, supported by Camden International Film Festival’s Points North Fellowship, Doc 10 Chicago, and Mountainfilm’s Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship.
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Paul Gallasch
Director/Producer/Editor
Paul Gallasch is a producer, director, and editor and is the founder of Hill Street Productions. He is a member of the Australian Directors Guild, the Australian Screen Editors guild and a winner of the prestigious Australian Documentary Prize from the Sydney Film Festival. Trained at The New York Film Academy, he specialises in documentary film production and editing and has received support from Screen Australia, the SAFC and MercuryCX.
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Kieran Hookway
Photographer/Curator
Kieran Hookway is an Adelaide born and raised analogue and digital photographic artist. He is primarily a street photographer and is currently working on a long-term project focused on daily street life in Adelaide. Kieran is also passionate about documenting other Adelaide artists across many mediums and loves the symbiotic nature of photography. https://www.instagram.com/kieranhookway/
Film
The Ark (post-production)
When two eccentric, blue-collar workers face eviction from their home in upscale Southampton, they come up with a fantastical plan – a broken-down 50-foot boat and the promise of the open seas.
Supported by The Points North Institute, Doc10 Chicago and Mountainfilm
Wishes Fulfilled (2020) 11mins
When her estranged family comes to visit, a new grandmother’s deepest desire slowly manifests.
In Competition at Flicketfest International Film Festival; Official Selection Adelaide Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival
Love in the Time of Antidepressants (2018) 67mins
Documentary making doesn't get much more intimate than turning the camera on yourself and your mentally ill mother. Adelaide filmmaker Paul Gallasch does just that in a compelling tale of love, dedication and dependence.
Official selection - Adelaide Film Festival, DOKER: Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, Down Under Berlin, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. Invited to Danish Film Institute’s Don’t Fear the Weird film series.
Fecal Matters (2015) 15mins
For a long time faeces has been an enemy of good healthcare, but the recent discovery of its ability to cure a deadly disease is changing the way medicine treats our shit.
Jury Award for Best Documentary: CineGlobe- Festival International de Films au CERN, Nominated: Best Documentary- South Australian Screen Awards, Official Selection: Aesthetica Short Film Festival, InScience - Dutch International Science Film Festival, 50th International Festival of Science Documentary Films Academia Film Olomouc, St Kilda Film Festival- Top 100 Shorts, 15th Dawson City International Short Film Festival.
Big China/Lil’ Crise (2013) 34mins
As his son moves closer to independence, a father must come to terms with own success and failures.
Killing Anna (2012) 29mins
After his long term girlfriend breaks up with him Paul (director) finds himself wishing that she had instead died in a tragic accident. In order to understand how this fantasy makes sense in the context of his continual love for her, he performs a funeral service as if her death were real...and films the process of putting it on.
Winner- Australian Documentary Prize, Sydney Film Festival, Winner- F4 Award, Australian International Documentary Conference, Winner- Best International Documentary, London Lift-Off Film Festival, Official Selection, Bootleg Film Festival (Toronto), La Guarimba International Film Festival, Down Under Berlin Film Festival, Shnit! Film Festival, Open Documents, Bern, Switzerland and Cape Town, South Africa.
Commissions
We specialise in offering production and editing services to documentary film and television production companies, community and not-for-profit organisations, and artists. We have collaborated with: Projector Films, Budaya Productions, YAVUZ Gallery, Bike SA, City of Port Adelaide Enfield, NAIDOC Week, Country Arts SA, ECH, PALLIC, Mercury CX (formally MRC), James Donald Forbes McCann and Fiona O’Loughlin to name a few, with our work being showcased on the ABC, online and in elite universities here and abroad.
We also provide a variety of photographic services including BTS, headshots, portraits and marketing material.