Vincent Sheehan is a founding partner of Porchlight Films an independent production company based in Sydney founded in 1996 by Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts and Anita Sheehan. Porchlight is committed to making innovative and distinctive Australian film and television.
Porchlight Films has produced award winning short films, documentaries, television programs and feature films including the independent box office hit Mullet (2001), and Walking on Water (2002) winner of 5 AFI Awards.
Porchlight’s most recent releases include the critically acclaimed Little Fish directed by Rowan Woods and starring Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving. An Australian box-office hit of 2005, Little Fish went on to win 5 AFI awards and premiered internationally at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival. Also in 2005 the award-winning short feature Jewboy, directed by Tony Krawitz, screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival 2006.
Currently in production is The Home Song Stories a new feature from writer/director Tony Ayres and starring Joan Chen.
In 2004 US Variety magazine listed Porchlight Films in its "top ten producers to watch" and in 2006 Australia’s Encore magazine lists Porchlight Films as one of the country's top twenty producers.
Porchlight has a firm reputation as dynamic production company at the forefront of the independent sector.
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