Hello.
We’re Watchpost. a small team of passionate creatives who live and breathe all things brand + screen storytelling.
We work across strategy, production and post-production. We make almost anything that can be watched or heard.
We’ve worked for some of the biggest brands in the world and had the honour of collaborating with some remarkable individuals and creatives. Over the last decade we’ve serviced over 100 clients and more than 150 bespoke brands. At last guess, we are proud to have produced and delivered over 3000 films of all genres on almost every budget imaginable.
Notable credits include serving as post-house on Netflix Original: Gymnastics Academy, providing production services for an Intel Storyhub original, Online edit and grade for My Name is Gulpilil (Netflix), and full production and post services for the feature documentary, The Burnt Half (SBS).
In the advertising space, we are honoured to have created content for brands such as Intel, Conde Naste, Warner Bros/Discovery, vmware, KPMG, Journey Beyond, Codan, Minelab, Penfolds, University of Adelaide, Flinders University and TAFE SA.
We work comfortably as a full-service production company and as a specialist post-house where we work across offline, online, colour grading, motion graphics, VFX, animation, post-sound, mastering and delivery. We do this for drama, documentary, feature film, broadcast, brand content, TV Commercials, digital, social and the rest.
As diverse as our team and services are, our why remains constant.
We exist to tell worthy screen stories with beauty and precision, reflecting the world we want to see, in the work we create.
Led and run by a team of South Australian filmmakers, creatives, advertising and content specialists, we are proud to be one of the largest and longest-running specialist content agencies in South Australia.
Thanks for stopping by. We can’t wait to work together.
Meet the Team
Stephen de Villiers
Founder / Creative Director
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Originally from South Africa, Stephen is now proud to call both Australia and South Africa home. A graduate of the directing course at the Australian Film Television Radio School (AFTRS), he has directed more than 20 narrative films. He is privileged to have worked with some of South Africa and Australia’s top actors, including Ian Roberts (Tstosi), Sean Cameron Michael (24, Black Sails) and Socratis Otto (X-Men Origins). Past festival highlights include screening as part of the Short Film Metrage at Cannes, while Super Sounds has screened at over 60 top film festivals, including Giffoni (Italy), Flickerfest (Sydney), Byron Bay and the San Francisco International Film Festival. In 2021, he was an episode Director on the Netflix commissioned TV Series, Gymnastics Academy: A Second Chance, and in 2022 his documentary The Rover of Tobruk was acquired by Fox Sports (USA).
Chloe Gardner
Co-Founder / Snr. Producer
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Chloe brings a wealth of creative experience to every project. She has been the Senior Producer at Beyond Content and its long-form sister arm, Arterial Films since 2019. Prior to that she founded South Australia’s most successful film school for kids, Kids Camera Action (2010), and founded the Adelaide International Youth Film Festival (2012). Chloe was the recipient of the Winnovation Award for Creative Entrepreneurship in 2016 and completed her MBA in 2019. In 2021, after working on the Netflix-acquired feature film, A Second Chance: Rivals she worked as the Production Manager, then Post Producer on the Netflix Series, Gymnastics Academy. Chloe has also produced, post-produced, and managed several productions for local Broadcast and International SVOD platforms, such as the multi-award-winning documentary, My Name is Gulpilil.
Alice Yang
Creative Director / Editor
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Alice Yang is a young and spirited, award-winning filmmaker having produced & directed many of her own short films, several of which have been officially selected in multiple film festivals like St Kilda and Antenna. In 2021, her documentary, My Ba won the AIDC Best Documentary award at the Mercury CXs South Australian Screen Awards, as well as being nominated for Best Editing, Best Student production & the Carclew Young Filmmaker award.In 2022, she won Best Directing at the Fleurieu Film Festival, and was selected into two prestigious skills development programs - Mercury CX's Springboard and the South Australian and National AFTRS Talent Camp. She is the recipient of the Quicksilver production fund for Finding Jia.
She has worked on over 20 short films, filling roles as director, producer, editor and everything in between. She brings her multifaceted skillset to Beyond Content in her role as a content producer. Outside Beyond, she pursues her own creative projects and itch for storytelling.
Maisie Fabry
Producer / Post-Producer
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Maisie has worked in the South Australian film industry for almost a decade. During her career in Adelaide she has led teams across both short and long form Film, TV and Commercial productions such as Netflix’s ‘Rabbit’ and ‘The Adventure’s of Figaro Pho’. In 2017 she received an SAFC grant to Produce a short film and has since gone on to Produce multiple shorts including, award-winning ‘Last Lullaby’. Maisie specialises as a Producer and an Editor giving her a diverse range of skills that encompass the entirety of production. Her creative instincts are matched only by her ability to elevate a project’s success through her entrepreneurial spirit and contagious energy and positivity.
Wilson Tran
Head of Post-Production
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Wilson has been an integral part of the team since 2017, and is fast-tracking his career to becoming one of South Australia’s most skilled editors and colourists. He has established himself as a talented and multi-disciplinary post-production specialist. Wilson’s story instincts and narrative focus have led to him being given lead editorial positions on a number of our long-form projects, including 25zero: East Africa, which began screening around the world in 2020, and KI: Of Fire and Fury, our Kangaroo Island bush fire documentary. In 2022, he worked as the main colourist on the Netflix show, Gymnastics Academy: A Second Chance.
Michael ‘Fazz’ Farell
Sound Recordist / Re-Recording Mixer
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With a background of writing, recording and producing his own music for over 15 years combined Fazz brings a unique approach and an invaluable set of ears to the team.You can find Fazz out in the field battling airconditioners and aeroplanes with boom-in-hand or back in the studio editing, designing and mixing a slew of projects from Short Films to TVC’s to Documentaries and branded content.