SPP's largest property is Shortland Street the half-hour soap opera for TVNZ 2.

In 2006, the company released Sione's Wedding and in 2002, the Oscar-nominated feature film Whale Rider.

In 1998 the company produced the feature film, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, the sequel to Once Were Warriors.

SPP is in a joint venture with Australian company SLR Productions to produce animated shows aimed at international markets and also has a 50% interest in Satellite Media and has also created a joint venture known as Kura Productions with Quinton Hita to produce programming for the Māori Television Service.

South Pacific Pictures was founded by CEO John Barnett.