Ivan O'Mahoney (Australia)
Co Founder/Managing Director
In Films

A former lawyer and UN peacekeeper in Bosnia, Ivan holds master degrees in international law (Leyden) and journalism (Columbia).

He is the producer of ABC’s new documentary series Folau, the recent feature documentary Unseen Skies and the Audible Originals podcast Bloodguilt.

He received the 2021 Rose d’Or & Walkley Documentary Award and 2020 AACTA Award for Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra. It followed wins in 2016 at the ADG Award, the Walkley Documentary Award, the AACTAs and the Amnesty International Media Award for ABC’s domestic violence series Hitting Home.

He is also the recipient of the 2013 AACTA for Best Documentary Series and the 2012 ADG Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Series for his work on the SBS refugee series Go Back To Where You Came From.

Other acclaimed projects include Baghdad High, about teens coming of age during the Iraq war (HBO); How To Plan a Revolution, following democracy activists in Azerbaijan (BBC) and Surviving Hunger, a film on famine in Ethiopia (CNN). His Four Corners film with Sarah Ferguson Code of Silence received the 2009 Sports Journalism Walkley. His projects have screened at major festivals (Tribeca, Sheffield, HotDocs, CPH:DOX, Fullframe, SFF).