Welcome to Lucky Country Productions

Producing, directing, writing and scoring Films and TV for over 20 years.

Bill Leimbach

Bill has been producing film and television for over 25 years. Raised in California, Leimbach trained in film at the Central London Film School and spent his formative working years with the BBC and in the English film industry.

He worked in the UK Film industry for ten years before moving his production company to Australia in the 1980’s where he formed Lucky Country Productions. It was through this company that he produced over 25 films for the likes of  National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, BBC, ABC and SBS and Australian commercial TV networks 7, 9 and 10.

Since then, he has produced a broad range of product, for an assortment of clients and employers around the world.

BENEATH HILL 60 was his First Feature Film, the Australia World War I epic, distributed by Paramount in early 2010. This WW I saga was a box office hit and picked up 12 Australian Nominations including Best Film and Best Director and Best Script. Click here to learn more about BH60

He is currently developing his next major WW2 motion picture with author and screenwriter, Mandaley Perkins, and together with Andrew Wight is looking forward to producing the first war movie in 3D as an epic film for the world market. Click to see more about Singapore Sunset in 3D

He is also developing the feature film, BANJO & MATILDA, to be directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Beneath Hill 60 writer, David Roach. Click here to learn more about Banjo & Matilda

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Banjo & Matilda

Like BENEATH HILL 60, this story is a very unknown part of Australian History.      Many know that Banjo Paterson wrote WALTZING MATILDA and that it has become almost a National Anthem. They may also know that the SWAGMAN from the song drowns himself in the Billabong, calling out the now infamous ‘you’ll never catch me alive’.   But there are many mysteries that shroud those events.

The same Producer and Writer team that created BENEATH HILL 60 will produce the BANJO & MATILDA – an action romance that will unveil not only the mysteries of the song, but the passionate love story during its writing and the violent activities that lead to the ARMED CONFLICT behind the lyrics.

The dramatic activity of this time is the backdrop for our three sided love story – between Scottish Australian Christina who arrives in Queensland with a unforgettable tune in her head, Irish Australian Sarah who arrives with Banjo, and Banjo himself, soon torn between the two women and their differing responses to the chaos and violence happening around them.  Caught in the middle of this is the German who manages the property manager where they are all stranded, in the biggest Wet Season in 20 years.

Find out WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW with Banjo & Matilda on the Blog!

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Lime Cordiale

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Oliver and Louis Leimbach started playing music together as brothers
later in life, when they could stay put in the same room without
giving each other dead-arms.

Thanks to a nagging mother, they didn’t give up their classical
instruments and brought them into the band.

Brendan Champion on trombone and James Django Jennings
on drums make up the rest of Lime Cordiale.

With influences ranging from French pop to
parental arguments, from Indian Raga music to midnight snacks,
Lime Cordiale is the new Slam Pop.

Visit their official website by clicking here or for more videos by clicking here

 

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