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ABOUT US

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Producer-Director-Writer Peter Butt is an award-winning Australian documentary filmmaker with a career spanning four decades. Specialising in investigative projects, he has produced films and series for Australian and international broadcasters, including ABC, SBS, Channel 9, ATN7, BBC, Channel 4UK, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel & National Geographic. Peter's multi-award-winning True Crime documentary, Who Killed Dr Bogle & Mrs Chandler?, in which he solved a six-decade-old cold case, was ABC Australia’s most-watched program of 2006-7 and remains the highest-rating documentary ever screened on the public broadcaster. His recent credits include Producer-Director-Writer of Final Rendezvous (ABC), Co-Producer of Witch of Kings Cross (Prime) and Series Writer for two seasons of Broken Yellow’s True Crime animation series, TWIST (ABC & BiliBili, China). Peter is also an established True Crime author and podcaster. In 2015, Peter established Blackwattle Press.  

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 Sarah Staveley is Co Publisher and Editor at Blackwattle Press. Her passion is historical research, including family histories and colonial art research. In 2022, Sarah penned "A Consequence of Cake" an intriguing True Crime novel set in London in the 1740s.

 

Sarah has worked in various capacities on three Blackwattle Films productions. In 2023, Sarah joined Blackwattle Films as Co Producer. 

Blackwattle Films - Blackwattle Press 
Sydney, Australia
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