LaLa Pictures first started operating as Teen TV in 1996. Since its inception the company has produced multi award-winning short films with screenings in over 100 international film festivals worldwide (including imagineNATIVE, Raindance, Palm Springs, Frameline San Francisco G&L Film Festival, Sao Paolo International, Cork International Film Festivals), a television pilot, INYAFACE, successfully sold for development (Artist Services) and produced two plays in major theatre venues (Belvoir Street & Newtown Theatre) in Sydney, Australia.

LaLa Pictures is owned and operated by Andrew Arbuthnot, a self taught producer born in Queensland Australia. Andrew has worked for companies including the BBC, Channel 4, PolyGram Films, Nickelodeon, Foxtel, Southern Star Productions and Essential Media where he's gained invaluable experience in development, production, marketing and distribution.

At 19 Andrew produced his first short film, 'Patsy's Party', which won him Best Producer award at the Warner Brothers Queensland New Filmmaker Awards. Since then he has continued producing and distributing short films for which he successfully secured distribution contracts. His shorts 'Contact' and 'Hitch Cock' were huge festival hits, the latter sweeping 50 festivals in twelve months and securing broadcast with Canal+ France and SBS Australia. Andrew's latest short drama, 'Nia's Melancholy', shot entirely in Far North Queensland was financed by Screen Australia, ABC & Screen Queensland. In 2009, it won the imagineNATIVE Toronto Film Festival Best Emerging Talent Award, a SILVER ACS Award (Australian Cinematographers Society) and in 2011 won Best Film and the Indigenous Award at West End Film Festival in Brisbane. Andrew has also worked as the production office Cast Co-ordinator for large-scale television dramas including; RAKE (ABC), Spirited (FOXTEL) and Rescue Special Ops Series I & II (NINE). Andrew has a busy slate of film and TV projects in development.

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