[3][2] Shark Island Productions is a certified B corporation Company that meets standards of social and environmental performance,[4] and is carbon-neutral since 2014.
Through Shark Island Institute, the company builds partnerships with foundations, philanthropists, and not-for-profit organisations to raise awareness and make a social impact.
[5][6] The organisation partnered with BRITDOC and the Sundance Documentary Film Program to bring GoodPitch2 Australia to the Sydney Opera House in 2014, 2015 and 2016, an international forum that connect filmmakers with foundations, financiers, not-for-profits, philanthropists and policy-makers.
[7][8] Money is raised in philanthropic grants for funding social impact documentaries and powerful strategic partnerships between community groups, the corporate sector, NGOs and policy-makers are formed.
Shark Island Institute works with international documentary filmmakers in The Portfolio,[9] resulting in films such as The Hunting Ground, The Bleeding Edge, The Fourth Estate, Inventing Tomorrow, 2040, Unrest, How to Change the World and Bully.
Suzy & the Simple Man was screened as official selection at the following film festivals:[citation needed] Official Selection at Mountainfilm 2017 In Stories From The Inside (2013), a group of first time offenders reveal the crimes that led to their incarceration into the Youth Unit at Port Phillip Prison.
The inmates tell their stories around the choices, mistakes and the effects of their actions on themselves, families and victims, and discuss the harsh reality of prison life, the daily grind, boredom, depression, and the fear of rejection when they return to the outside world.
The film was launched on ABC Television on 9 September 2010, during Child Protection Week, followed by a live audience discussion hosted by Geraldine Doogue.
[19] For Wall Boy, Nicola Daley was given an award for Cinematography in the Fiction Drama Shorts at the Australian Cinematographers Society.
[26] The film and study guide[27] package was donated to English, drama, and media departments in all secondary schools across Australia, with support from the Caledonia Foundation.
[30] Woodstock for Capitalists was about a millionaire's convention in Omaha, Nebraska, at which "15,000 fanatical shareholders gather to pay homage to their hero Warren Buffett".
[5] The three films provoke much discussion about dealing with complex social problems, and raise issues about the adequacy of service levels surrounding prevention and response programs in the community.