WildBear Entertainment

WildBear Entertainment is an Australian independent factual and documentary production studio creating, producing and distributing screen stories for broadcasters, streaming platforms, theatrical audiences, government bodies and cultural institutions. Formed in 2014 through the merger of Bearcage Productions and Wild Fury, the company combines longstanding documentary-production roots with development, financing, production, post-production and distribution capabilities.

Its work spans research-led factual entertainment, documentary features and television, natural history and wildlife, military and social history, science and engineering, and museum or cultural installations. WildBear also produces short-form branded factual work and educational or governmental screen communications.

Production and post-production

The studio supports projects across the production lifecycle, including international co-production packaging for public broadcasters and global streamers. Its internal post-production operation, WildBear Post, provides:

• Offline and online editing
• Colour grading, sound design and Pro Tools audio mixing
• Broadcast mastering
• Concept design, 2D and 3D animation, titles, motion graphics and visual effects

WildBear’s Content Mint business preserves and licenses a proprietary archive of stock footage, including wildlife, global landscapes and historical material in high-definition, 35mm and 16mm formats.

Selected work

Its credits include Playing With Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story, Every Little Thing, Under a Bamboo Sky, Rachel’s Farm, Stuff the British Stole, Joh: Last King of Queensland, Gem Hunters Down Under, The War That Changed the World: The Making of a New China, Demolition Down Under, Snake Boss and Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks. The company has also created A New Anzac, a permanent gallery production for the Australian War Memorial.

WildBear works with Australian and international broadcasters, distributors and platforms including ABC, SBS, Foxtel, BBC, PBS, ZDF/Arte, Netflix and Disney+. Its production footprint extends across Australia and New Zealand, supporting factual, history, science and natural-history slates for global audiences.