Ditchwater Pictures

Ditchwater Pictures tells stories from Australia and New Zealand, and some of our more interesting neighbours, to share with the world. The company has offices in Byron Bay, Australia, and in Auckland, New Zealand.

The idea for the ‘Cross-the-Ditch’ film company was originally conceived in India, back in 2010, when award-winning film director and producer, Harold Monfils, the Kiwi connection, collaborated with award-winning advertising writer and director, Rod Vallis, the Aussie, on a large-scale television commercial.

A dozen years, a bunch of solo projects and a thousand ideas later, Rod and Harold have finally bridged the Tasman between Oz and NZ, locally known as ‘The Ditch’, to create Ditchwater Pictures. They currently have six feature-length projects in various stages of development, pre-production, production and post-production.