Bearcage Productions: Creativity on tap

Canberra, Australia: A creative entity with 18 years experience in the production of television commercials, corporate videos, short films, documentaries and tele-features, Bearcage Productions is Canberra’s largest independent production company. Today, with over fifty Australian and international awards for creativity under its belt, Bearcage is the production company of choice for a growing number of government agencies and departments, and high profile corporate organisations and advertising agencies.

Having cut its teeth on productions for government departments and local ad agencies, Bearcage is among the very few production houses that have the almost unique combination of skills, experience, resources and strong understanding of government requirements that give it a definite edge in the government sector. Projects for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusIndustry, the Department of Health and Ageing, and the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet are a mere handful of the growing list of government-commissioned projects, training programs and television commercials to Bearcage’s credit.

Government, though, is only one section of the Bearcage portfolio. Along with a heavy presence in the corporate filmmaking sector, the company is making major progress towards becoming one of Australia’s premier producers of television programs. Among the various programs developed or in production are:

• Icons - a documentary series for Foxtel,
• To See Ourselves - a 90-minute documentary, and
• Shock and How to Survive it - a 60-minute documentary.

Core to the company’s ongoing success – evidenced by an average annual growth rate of 30 per cent since 2004 – is a focus on nurturing and promoting the creativity of its staff. According to Bearcage General Manager Nunzio Gambale, when you provide people with the right tools and the right environment, then the right results are bound to arrive. “It’s the people in the room that give the room value,” he says, “and ensuring they have everything needed to be creative and productive is absolutely essential.”

Delivering on Bearcage’s “everything needed” is a highly collaborative video production environment based on Apple Mac Pro Final Cut Studio suites, 18 terabytes of Xserve RAID, and an Xsan storage area network solution.