Wooden Horse
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Melissa Lee Speyer Screen and theatre writer. On the unceded lands of the Wangal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
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Greater Sydney Area
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Zaina Ahmed Development & Production Coordinator at Wooden Horse TV-
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Chris Yip Filmmaker-
Greater Sydney Area
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Alexandra Cameron Associate Producer at Wooden Horse-
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Bruce Koussaba Student at Academy of Film, Theatre and Television-
Greater Sydney Area
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Overview
Wooden Horse is a dynamic partnership between Australian entertainment industry executives Jude Troy & Richard Finlayson. Combining their extensive international networks & working with the best creative talent, Wooden Horse is focussed on distinctive, provocative & bold storytelling for global audiences. The company was created in 2018 by Jude following a successful 17-year career at global media group Entertainment One & iconic Australian company, Hopscotch Films, where she was a partner. Working in acquisitions across film & TV, she built a catalogue of titles that included the Oscar winning documentary Amy, & TV series Peaky Blinders, Catastrophe, The Inbetweeners & The Slap. Jude was also an Executive Producer on AACTA Award-winning feature documentary All This Mayhem. In launching eOne’s Australian TV production arm, she co-produced The Other Guy Season 1 in partnership with Aquarius Films for Stan. Under the Wooden Horse banner, she co-produced with Aquarius, Season 2. Both seasons have sold to Hulu (US) & Super Channel (Canada). Having collaborated on several projects, Richard Finlayson joined Wooden Horse as a producing partner in 2019, merging his company, Headland Media, into the business. At Headland, Richard consulted on content strategy to global media companies, created & produced the Ben Law series Waltzing the Dragon for the ABC (with WildBear) & shepherded a number of projects into funded development. As the Director of Television at ABC, he was responsible for commissioning hundreds of hours of ground-breaking content and pioneering a raft of successful international co-productions including Cleverman (AMC Sundance), Glitch (NBC, Netflix), The Code (Sony) & Monkey Magic (Netflix). Prior to that he was COO at SBS. Wooden Horse is developing an exciting slate of shows with Australia’s leading creatives for partners including Stan & ABC.
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