PETER BAIN-HOGG

Renegade Fillms , Australia

 

Renegade Films is ranked in the top five Australian television commercial production companies and represents a number of young talented directors. Since Joe and Ken Conner founded Renegade in 1995, the company has produced over 600 TVCs for some of the most recognised brands in Australia and the world including Coca Cola, Fosters, Mastercard, Virgin, Fosters, and the AFL.

In 2005 Renegade has expanded to include production of features, short films, and television programs. Achievements include:-

• The weekly music trivia series RocKwiz was recently recommissioned by SBS for its sixth series making a total of 92 episodes. Liberation Music has released Two For CD and DVD compilations of the RocKwiz Duets and Hardie Grant has released two RocKwiz music-trivia books. RocKwiz won an AFI Award for Best Television Entertainment programme in 2007 and the DVD “Two For The Show” was certified as a gold seller.
• The eight part comedy-drama series Wilfred, directed by Tony Rogers,was screened by SBS in 2007 and won an AFI Award for Best Television Comedy. Wilfred has since become the highest selling DVD title in the SBS/Madman catalogue. A second series is currently being written.
• Director Julius Avery’s short film End Of Town was in competition at the 2007 Jackson Hole Film Festival in the USA, and his short film Jerrycan won the Jury Prize at the 2008 Canne Film Festival.
• The independently funded feature Rats and Cats screened in the 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival and was released theatrically in May 2008.

Renegade has most recently expanded into factual television production and has been commissioned by SBS and the ABC to develop and produce several projects.

Renegade continues to produce quality film and television and is committed to:-

• fostering new talent behind and in front of the camera
• developing short and long form drama and comedy content
  exploiting brand content across all media
• creating original genre-blending formats for a local and global market
• continuing innovative thinking across all media

Renegade’s current development slate is diverse, fresh, exciting, and full of potential.