Paul Clarke

Paul Clarke

WRITER/DIRECTOR & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER 

Paul Clarke was the co-writer and executive producer of the AACTA Award winning documentary feature John Farnham: Finding the Voice which smashed Australian box office records in 2023.  Previously Paul was an originator of the much-lauded live music series Recovery (ABC TV 1996-2000), the hit documentary series on Australian rock Long Way to The Top (2001), and the Long Way to The Top national concert tour (2002). He was creator and the original executive producer and writer of the award-winning Spicks and Specks (2005), which is so named because it is the only song he can play on the piano. He was writer and director of the award-winning Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing documentary series and wrote and directed Whitlam: The Power & The Passion (2013), as well as Brilliant Creatures: Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer, Clive James, and Barry Humphries (2015) for the BBC. Clarke was the writer and director of Blood & Thunder: The Story of Alberts (2016, ABC/BBC4) and has produced multi-camera live concert tour shows for Metallica, AC/DC, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams.

Paul’s documentaries are all archive films - since his first documentary 25 years ago, he has always loved archives and photographs. He loved the work of the master cinematographers and sound recordists who worked for the ABC in the 60s, who captured vivid moments of Australia in transition. His films all have a deep empathy for their subjects, facts and nuggets of truth that illuminate their story, told in a style that is irreverent, laconic and entertaining. He wants to move the audience - he wants you to laugh and cry and feel the power of the times.

Carolina Sorensen

Carolina Sorensen

PRODUCER 

An independent producer, Carolina Sorensen’s previous credits include A Musical Mind – A Portrait in Process directed by Scott Hicks and produced by Kerry Heysen. In 2017, Carolina co-founded People Productions with the company’s first feature film I’m Wanita playing at more than twenty film festivals, nominated for an AACTA Award, and winning the Sydney Film Festival Award for Best Documentary, the Raindance Award for Best Music Documentary and the AIDC Award for Best Feature Documentary.

 

Carolina is passionate about championing author-driven works and supporting distinctive voices. She is actively developing projects in scripted and non-scripted formats, both independently through her company People Productions and collaboratively with industry leaders like Beyond Entertainment, New Canvas, and Wildbear Entertainment. Carolina’s projects span across film, television, online platforms, and the immersive world of VR. Carolina has been collaborating with Paul Clarke for more than ten years working on multiple productions across Blink TV’s documentary and entertainment slate, including SBS coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Martin Fabinyi

Martin Fabinyi

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Founder of Regular Records releasing artists including Mental As Anything, Icehouse, and Kate Ceberano, in 1993 Martin formed Mushroom Pictures with Michael Gudinski, producing or executive producing all the company’s film and television projects including Andrew Dominik’s debut film Chopper, Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek and the Working Title feature Gettin’ Square directed by Jonathan Teplitzky.  More recently, Martin was the executive producer of the SBS television series Great Australian Albums which was named by The Australian as the Best Television Series of 2008.

 

Joining Beyond in 2010, Fabinyi produced the Carl Barron feature Manny Lewis and the documentary on the rise of AC/DC, Blood & Thunder: The Story of the Alberts.  He also co-produced The Angels documentary Kickin’ Down The Door which opened the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival and was an executive producer of the AACTA Award winning theatrical feature John Farnham: Finding the Voice.

Mikael Borglund - Photo credit: SFF by Tim Levy

Mikael Borglund

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Mikael Borglund is one of Australia’s most highly regarded film and television executives. A founding director of Beyond International in 1984, Mikael was appointed Managing Director of the Beyond International Limited Group of companies in 1991. Over the course of the next 4 decades, the company expanded to be one of the most prolific creators of film and television.

 

Mikael’s feature films credits include The Crossing, Spotswood, Kiss or Kill, Lantana and James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D, as well as having managed the international distribution of the celebrated features Strictly Ballroom and Chopper. Most recently Mikael was Executive Producer of the documentary features The Musical Mind – A Portrait in Process and the AACTA Award winning John Farnham: Finding the Voice, as well as Russell Crowe’s Poker Face. His early television credits include Beyond 2000, Beyond Tomorrow, The Great Wall of Iron, Stingers, Halifax fp, Day of The Roses, Medivac, Through My Eyes and Fire - with more recent television credits including Mythbusters, Pooch Perfect, Selling Houses Australia,  Back in the Groove and Love Undercover, as well as dramas Halifax: Retribution, two seasons of Troppo and the animated Netflix series Beat Bugs and Motown Magic. 

 

Following the sale of Beyond International Limited group of companies to Banijay in 2022, in December 2023 Mikael bought back the production divisions of the company to re-establish Beyond as a major independent producer of film and television in Australia and North America.