Film Crew

Ian Darling is the Executive Director of Shark Island Productions and the Shark Island Documentary Fund. He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and his Director and Producer credits include In The Company of Actors, Alone Across Australia and Woodstock for Capitalists. His films have all screened on ABC Television, a variety of television networks around the world and at over 100 international film festivals.

He recently produced and co-directed the feature length documentary The Oasis, about a group of homeless street kids in Sydney, which the ABC screened on April 10 during National Youth Week in 2008.

He is also the creator of the "Australia's Homeless Youth" project, which in addition to producing the documentary The Oasis has established the independent National Youth Commission and report into youth homelessness. The report was also launched in April 2008.

In addition, he is the founder and Chairman of the Documentary Australia Foundation, a new philanthropic initiative involving documentary filmmakers, philanthropic foundations and charitable organisations in Australia.

He is the Chairman of The Caledonia Foundation, a private foundation focusing on the education, training and welfare of disadvantaged young Australians. He is also Chairman of the Sydney Theatre Company and the STC Foundation.