Popper Productions: Feature films

Monkey Puzzle
(2008) Writer/director: Mark Forstmann

Co-writer: Stephen Davis
DoP: Justine Kerrigan
Editor: Ken Sallow ASE
Production Design: Sam Hobbs
Sound Design: Liam Egan
Music: Amanda Brown

Cast: Ben Guerens, Ryan Johnson, Ella Scott Lynch, Socratis Otto, Billie Rose Prichard,

Movie Network, Madman (DVD distributor)

Winner Best Environmental Film Award Shanghai International Film Festival 2008.
Winner Best Cinematography Bend Film Festival USA 2008
Official Selection Sao Paulo International Film Festival October 2008 and Cork International Film Festival.
Selected opening night film Byron Bay Film Festival 2008
London Australian Film Festival 2008
Australian Israeli Film Festival 2008 Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Sderot
Dungog Film Festival 2008
Going Green Film Festival USA 2010.

Links:
Monkey Puzzle website
Galloping Films
Madman

Theatrical trailer

Popper Productions

Popper Productions is an independent Australian production company producing Australian feature films and documentaries at low to mid level budgets.

Tamara Popper has been an independent producer for 12 years and other credits include Unit #52, written and directed by Tony Krawitz, selected for Directors Fortnight, Cannes International Film Festival 2003, and, a 52 minute documentary Sydney At War – The Untold Story, written and directed by Claude Gonzalez for SBS Television.

A Natural Talent, written and directed by Louise Fox, was nominated for two Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards in 2006 and won the prestigious Jameson Award for Best Australian Short Film at Flickerfest 2006 and has screened at many international film festivals.

She also produced Louise Fox's AFC funded short film Help me and a number of short films, documentaries, video installations and segments for ABC-TV's Recovery and Triple J Radio.

The company has several feature films in development and is currently financing the feature film Designated Driver which will go into production early in 2013. Bowie Golden Years, a feature length documentary, is also at financing stage and will be a co-production with London based production company Missing In Action Films.

Tamara is also a producer mentor/consultant at the International Film School of Sydney.