How backflips are being used to fight bullying

CLIENT: BACKFLIPS AGAINST BULLYING
OUTLET: THE TODAY SHOW

Samwise Holmes joined Channel 9’s Today Show to discuss his unique program, Backflips Against Bullying, tackling the bullying crisis in Aussie schools. Using his own experience of bullying combined with acrobatics and parkour, which is all the craze with children now, Sam brings the NSW anti-bullying curriculum to life.

Better meat, less often: How this vegetarian became a sustainable meat-eating farmer

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: TRIPLE J HACK

Tammi Jonas spent 10 years as a vegetarian.

Coming from a cattle ranching family in Oregon, in the US, it wasn't exactly a smooth decision to make.

Her decision to go vego came after she read Australian author Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation. In her view, the book detailed the horrible things done to pigs and poultry in sheds.

Tammi's now speaking out about factory farming and the way animals are bred in captivity in the US, as the spokeswoman for a new documentary, Eating Animals.

The documentary, based on a book of the same name and narrated by Natalie Portman, aims to highlight the cruelty of factory farming and pushes for more traditional, sustainable and ethical farming practices.

Eating Animals Film Review

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: FILM INK

Eating Animals was adapted and extended from the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s non-fiction book of the same name. Despite the title, and also despite its potentially distressing theme, it begins as an evidence-based argument against factory farming rather than animal consumption in general. Some of the people featured most onscreen are in fact small-scale chicken or pig farmers, albeit with very serious qualms and a disposition (at least) towards activism.

Vegans have a beef with meat producer

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN

The problem with vegans, says former vegetarian and academic turned pig farmer, butcher and carnivore Tammi Jonas, is they have no sense of irony.

Ms Jonas runs a small property near Daylesford, in central Victoria, where she and her husband, Stuart, raise pigs and cattle and supply meat and value-added products such as ham and pate directly to locals.

Ms Jonas is about to move even further into the vegans’ firing line. She has taken up the role of “Australian ambassador” for the US documentary Eating Animals, which starts screening around Australia in November.

Why a regional butcher wants us to watch an animal rights documentary

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: ABC RADIO NATIONAL

Hollywood actor Natalie Portman narrates a controversial new documentary that screens soon in this country.

It's called Eating Animals, and it's a no holds barred expose of the inhumanity of industrial farming practices that dominate American food systems.

Tammi Jonas used to be a vegetarian but now she's a farmer and butcher in regional Victoria.

She explains why she endorses a movie that seems, on the surface, to preach veganism.

Meet The Vegetarian Who Became A Butcher

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: 10 DAILY

Tammi Jonas was a vegetarian for a decade. Now she has turned a full 180 and is a butcher on her very own pasteurized pig farm in Victoria.

Jonas made the decision to ditch meat from her diet when she was just 19 years old.

Jonas is speaking out ahead of the controversial Natalie Portman film, 'Eating Animals', which is about to drop in cinemas across the country.

Aussie startup’s huge bet in Netflix era

CLIENT: REEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
OUTLET: YAHOO! FINANCE

It’s an undeniably interesting question: when Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Amazon achieve market saturation, what’s the next stage of the streaming wars?

For Aussie startup Reel House Productions, the answer is cost-cutting. Once the land has been grabbed, the streaming giants will turn their focus to creating great content, but without the massive price tags attached to flagship shows like The Crown and Marco Polo.

This Australian movie startup wants to join the streaming ‘arms race’ with low budget films

CLIENT: REEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
OUTLET: STARTUP DAILY

An Australian film production company Reel House Productions believes there’s still a fortune to be made making films as streaming services invest billions in a hunt for content that will create a supply shortage in Hollywood.

Reel House Productions partner Jay Grant says an “arms race” is underway between streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and the established film industry studios such as Disney, Sony, Universal, Paramount and Warner Brothers “desperate for high quality, affordable content to attract subscribers” and spending billions to source it.

“Reel House Productions will lead a new golden age in Australian cinema,” he said.

Dr Zac Turner on Today Extra

CLIENT: DR ZAC TURNER
OUTLET: TODAY EXTRA - CHANNEL 9

Dr Zac Turner joined Today Extra to discuss some of the weeks hottest topics in the medical world, including new research revealing the effects of caffeine consumption on babies health and a number of new treatment options for people with dementia. Other areas of discussion included research suggesting people with short heights are more likely to develop a number of chronic health conditions.

How Reel House will crowdfund a streaming content company

CLIENT: REEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
OUTLET: MEDIA WEEK

Want to get into the movie business with a relatively small investment with the potential to triple your money in five years?

Australian start up Reel House Productions could be for you.

“Reel House Productions will lead a new golden age in Australian cinema,” said Jay Grant, partner at Reel House Productions. In a pitch to investors, Grant said: “Technology is causing major disruption to the $68bn film and television business and our unique business model is set to capitalise on this trend, unlike any Australian production company has ever done before. The financial weight in the film industry has now shifted from cinema and broadcast television to online streaming.”