Film production · Brisbane · Since 2007
Bringing great stories to light
Story first
It starts with story, and story shapes everything we do
Light Studios is a film production company, operating since 2007. We make work for corporate clients, and we produce and direct documentaries. Whatever the project, a client brief or a documentary film, it starts with story, and story shapes everything we do.
- 01Find the storyWhat your audience needs to see, and who should tell it.
- 02Shoot it properlyOn location, in the hangar, on the water or in the air.
- 03Cut it for where it livesA broadcast documentary, a brand film, or a month of social posts.
Client work
Films for the brands we work with
Brand films, customer stories and ongoing social video. Much of it is in aviation, because our founder is a pilot and knows his way around a hangar.
Featured · Aviation · Bundaberg
Jabiru Aircraft
Factory, owner and maintenance films for the Bundaberg aircraft and engine maker, and The Will to Fly.
Aviation · Redcliffe and Bundaberg
Advanced Aviation Training
The student pilot journey on screen, and the school’s social channels run week to week.
Marine · Industrial · Brisbane
Subsea
Salvage, inspection and diving work, filmed on the job for a commercial marine operator.
Lifestyle brand · Series
Kitchen Connection
Heart of the Home, a seven-episode renovation series, and customer stories filmed in real homes.
AlsoBob Tait Aviation Theory · RAAus · Deepsea Solutions · The Banyans · Surf Lakes · World Vision
Social media for aviation
Your aircraft on screen, every week
For flight schools, manufacturers and clubs, run by a pilot who films. Monthly shoot days, edits for every platform, a calendar you approve and a report on what worked.
Films · In development
Outback Aviators
Our new factual series. We fly a light aircraft to remote Queensland and spend two full days with the people whose work keeps those places running. Twenty locations a season, weekly from 2027.
Our films
Documentaries we produce and direct
Touch the Sky
8-part series / 2023
Eight women from different backgrounds learning to fly. Financed by Screen Australia with Documentary Australia and Screen Territory. Winner, Online Series Production of the Year, Screen Producers Australia Awards 2024. Winner, Best Documentary, International Online Web Fest.
Fading Sands
Documentary / 2017
Climate change and the loss of land in the Solomon Islands, made with World Vision across three trips and seven communities. Broadcast on SBS and NITV. Winner, Prix Okeanos, FIFO Tahiti.
The Will to Fly
Documentary / 2026
Thirty-five years of Jabiru Aircraft, from two men in Bundaberg who wanted flying to cost less, told by the people who lived it.
The Aviator
Documentary / 2021
Bob Tait OAM has put more pilots into Australian skies than almost anyone alive. The film follows him sitting for a Recreational Pilot Certificate himself.
Taking Flight
22-part series / 2016
Twenty-two episodes inside a Sunshine Coast flight school, following a film director who is frightened of flying and gets his licence anyway.
Got a story to tell?
Start a project
Tell us about the project, whether it’s a brand film, a social retainer or a documentary partnership. We’ll come back with ideas and a quote.
info@lightstudios.com.au
Brisbane, Queensland