Ivan Malekin and Patrick Siscar established NPG in Melbourne, Australia back in 2007 as means to produce our first films and learn the craft of filmmaking. Our early work was raw and rough, the learning curve steep, but learn we did. Soon, our short films were winning awards at festivals around the world, and our breadth of work expanded to include corporate videos, music clips and performance, showreels for actors, live events and more.
Sarah Jayne joined the team in 2010 as our expansion continued via the festival scene, establishing the Made In Melbourne Film Festival (2009-2016) and Short Cut Monthly Film Nite (2010 - 2012) as well graduating from shorts to feature-length filmmaking. In 2014, New York-based Melbourne-native Clara Francesca joined Nexus, and in 2020 Ante Malekin also joined the team, completing the collective.
Today, Ivan Malekin and Sarah Jayne are based in Malta, Clara continues to tear it up in New York, while Patrick and Ante man the ship in Melbourne. And, more importantly, we cut the corporates, the events, the festivals, the excess to focus on our first love and the reason we began this journey over a decade ago — filmmaking. Producing and directing quality, innovative, challenging films that inspire us and, we hope, inspire you too, while also teaching our proven method of improvised filmmaking techniques through live workshops and online masterclasses.
Now based in Malta and led by directors Ivan Malekin and Sarah Jayne in Croatia, the company is driven by a passion to create compelling, character-driven stories for both traditional cinema and online viewing. While acknowledging and embracing current shifts within film distribution, NPG remains unlimited in imagination and wholeheartedly driven by their passion to create.
Our current focus is on producing, writing, directing and distributing documentary and improvised films while delivering both live and online educational masterclasses, courses and workshops for filmmakers and a wide range of institutions specifically focused on improvisation for filmmaking, and the importance of micro-budget filmmaking within the current climate.
We also sell our titles, so please contact us directly to gain access to our full and every growing catalogue of films available for sale.
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