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He interpreted this as essentially damaging for any Australian producer who wants to build a business of successful brands. And that’s a crazy, damaging and senseless policy.”

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“Which means, halfway through series three, we fall off the rebate. “That is effectively two and a half seasons,” Shiff pointed out. Shiff expressed that he was disheartened over the guideline that specifies only 65 half-hour episodes of a series qualifies for the producer rebate. In spite of H20’s success, it could be facing a death sentence in the eyes of the new Screen Australia guidelines. So we’ve become well advanced now with the global business model.” We are a little independent producer in Australia with a global impact, and our principal rival is Disney worldwide. But we’re punching well above our weight because we’re competing with the likes of Hannah Montana. “Not unheard of, because Saddle Club did it, just unusual. “It’s an unusual model for Australia,” Shiff admitted. “There are great prospects for doing fantasy, action adventure produced in the vein of the Spiderwick Chronicles, but are shot in Australia for a global audience using the same brand pedigree that we’ve developed through our TV division.”Ī division that has seen H2O – Just Add Water through two successful series broadcasted on more than 120 channels worldwide to over 200 million viewers per week.Ĭurrently in production with series three, H20’s brand has expanded broadly to include musical elements in the upcoming series, worldwide merchandising, a clothing and beachwear line through Target Australia, DVD distribution published by Magna Pacific, an online presence and a yet to be announced toy deal with international toy manufacturer, Playmates, who will be releasing mermaid dolls and bath toys. “Our corporate ambition is to now start a new division working on one feature film every two years,” he said. Shiff kept mum about the film’s storyline and exact principal photography commencement date, but revealed that his production company’s ambitions have moved on to film.

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Shiff Productions, Jonathan Shiff told INSIDE FILM that, “We’re now planning a movie, a family or a kids movie as a spin off on the series.”ĭespite having only previously produced live action children’s TV, Shiff confidently declared that, “As we go up into higher budget projects that are shot presumably in 35mm ready for cinema, we’ll be taking 20 years of TV experience into motion picture.” The series executive producer and founder of Jonathan M.

H2O – Just Add Water, one of Australia’s widely successful live action children’s TV productions, is slated to go into production with a feature film spin-off sometime in 2009.