{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox company |logo= |name = Prospero Productions |type = |parent = |foundation = {{Start date|1991}} |founder = |location = Fremantle, Australia |key_people = Julia Redwood (MD) |industry = Television production |products = Documentary<br/>Entertainment |divisions = }}

'''Prospero Productions''' is an Australian-based television production company based in Fremantle, Western Australia specialising in maritime documentaries and light entertainment.

==Background== Prospero Productions was formed in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1991 by Ed Punchard and Julia Redwood. It is now owned solely by Juila Redwood.<ref name=West10/>{{rp|128}}

Their latest production is Ningaloo: Australia's Other Great Reef.<ref name="TodayTon">{{Cite episode |title=Journey Underwater: Ningaloo Reef |episode-link= |url=https://www.facebook.com/TodayTonight/videos/593547311080113/ |access-date=24 December 2018 |series=Today Tonight |series-link= |first= |last= |network=Channel Seven |station=Perth |date=24 December 2018 |season= |series-no= |number= |minutes= |time=18h30 |transcript= |transcript-url= |quote= |language=}}</ref> Using a mini-submersible, filming took place at Ningaloo Reef and features marine scientist Anna Cresswell.<ref name=TodayTon/> The production is filmed in 4K and will be screened on dome screens.<ref name=TodayTon/> The production premieres at the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle in late December 2018.<ref name=TodayTon/>

In early 2016, Discovery Channel would pick up two of Prospero's productions, Railroad Australia would play on Discovery Asia while ''Outback Truckers'' will play on Discovery Italy and Discovery Canada.<ref name="C2101">{{cite web | url=http://www.c21media.net/prospero-takes-discovery-into-outback/ | title=Prospero takes Discovery into outback | work=C21Media | date=28 January 2016 | accessdate=11 September 2016 | author=Middleton, Richard}}</ref> ''Outback Truckers'' would view on Canal D in Canada and on TVNZ in New Zealand.<ref name=C2101/> In their production Martin Clunes in Islands of Oz, a three-part documentary series, featured on Channel Seven in October 2016 and explored the remote and spectacular islands around Australia.<ref name="TVtonight01">{{cite web | url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2016/03/cameras-roll-on-islands-of-oz.html | title=Cameras roll on Islands of Oz | work=TV Tonight | date=21 March 2016 | accessdate=11 September 2016 | author=Knox, David}}</ref>

==Productions== <ref name="http://www.prospero.com.au/">{{cite web | url=http://www.prospero.com.au/ | title=Prospero Productions | work=Prospero Productions | accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="IMDB">{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0173668&view=advanced | title=Prospero Productions | work=IMDB | accessdate=1 December 2019}}</ref> * ''Junior Doctors Down Under'' (2024) * ''Outback Farm'' (2023-2024) * ''Opal Hunters Red Dirt Road Trip'' (2022) * ''Whale Super Highway'' (2019) * ''Outback Truckers Season'' (2012-2021) * ''Ningaloo: Australia's Other Great Reef'' (2018) * ''Outback Opal Hunters'' (2018–19) * ''Railroad Australia'' (2016-2018) * ''Islands of Oz'' (2016) * ''Outback Pilots'' (2016) * ''Wild Survivor'' (2014) * ''The Real Jaws'' (2014) * ''Australia - Life on the Edge'' (2013) * ''Change My Race'' (2013) * ''Vet School'' (2012) * ''Jack the Ripper - Australia's Killer'' (2011) * ''The Man Who Jumped'' (2011) * ''Ned's Head'' (2011) * ''Dino Stampede'' (2011) * ''SAS - The Search For Warriors'' (2011) * ''Pirate Patrol'' (2010) * ''Gallipoli's Deep Secrets'' (2010) * ''Every Family's Nightmare'' (2009) * ''Heartbreak Science'' (2009) * ''Navy Divers'' (2009) * ''Death of the Megabeasts'' (2008) * ''The Snake Crusader'' (2008) * ''Eco House Challenge'' (2007) * ''Pipe Dreams'' (2007) * ''Kindness of Strangers'' (2006) * ''Shipwreck Detectives 2'' (2005) * ''Aussie Animal Rescue 2'' (2004) * ''The Snakebuster'' (2003) * ''Shipwreck Detectives'' (2002) * ''Aussie Animal Rescue'' (2001) * ''Selling Australia'' (2000) * ''Diving School'' (1999) * ''Paying For The Piper'' (1998) * ''Home of the Blizzard'' (1997) * ''Hutan: Wildlife of the Malaysian Rainforest'' (1996) * ''Shipwreck Coast Part 2: The Gelignite Buccaneer'' (1995) * ''Shipwreck Coast Part 1: The Batavia - Wreck, Mutiny & Murder'' (1994) * ''No Survivors'' ()

==Honours and awards== In 1998, Prospero was nominate for an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Documentary for its production of ''Paying For The Piper''. ''Paying for the Piper'' would also feature at the ''United Nations Association Film Festival'' (2000), ''Golden Gate Awards - San Francisco Film Society'' (2000) and the ''International Festival of Maritime and Exploration Film'' (1999).<ref name="SA01">{{cite web | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/paying-for-the-piper-1998/12727?stxt= | title=Paying for the Piper | work=ScreenAustralia | accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref> Prospero Production would win the 2007 Australian Government's Eureka Prize for Science Journalism for ''The Kindness of Strangers''.<ref name="FTI">{{cite web | url=https://www.fti.asn.au/article/prospero-productions-strike-gold | title=Prospero Productions Strikes Gold | work=FTI | date=25 August 2007 | accessdate=17 September 2016}}</ref> In 2011, Prospero won the AACTA Award for Best Documentary Series for its production of ''SAS - The Search for Warriors''. The ''Eco House'' production would win an ''Australian Teachers of Media Inc'' award in 2007 and was a finalist in the ''United Nations World Environment Day Awards''.<ref name="SA02">{{cite web | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/eco-house-challenge-2007/24303?stxt= | title=Eco House | work=ScreenAustralia | accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref> ''Diving School'' would play at the ''Golden Gate Awards - San Francisco Film Society'' in 2001. In 2015, ''Australia- Life on the Edge'' won a Gold Prestige Film Award for Short Documentary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prospero.com.au/about/awards.php|title=Prospero Productions: Awards|website=www.prospero.com.au|language=en|access-date=2018-07-20}}</ref>

On 4 June 2021, Julia Redwood won the business category in the 2021 West Australian of the Year Awards.<ref name="West10">{{Cite news|last=Purnell|first=Kate|date=5 June 2021|title=Tourism's chance of shine around the world|work=West Australian}}</ref>{{rp|128}}

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==External links== *[http://www.prospero.com.au/ Prospero Production's Official Site]

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