Black Mountain, Canberra
Peace Mountain Productions is an independent film & video production company based in Canberra, the Australian National Capital. Previously known as Hartbeat Multimedia, we have been in business in Australia since 2005 and in Hong Kong since 1992.
太平山電影製片是一個澳大利亞首都堪培拉的電影公司。此公司起於香港，自2005年起在堪培拉運作。
公司的兩位主要合夥人是賀運博士和蕭珺博士。
Principals
Dr Ian Hart has been a film producer/director since 1969, working in documentary and fiction film and TV in Australia, Europe and Asia. Ian has lectured film and media in Australia and France and between 1992-2004 was Associate Professor at the University Hong Kong. Since he moved back to Canberra in 2005, he has concentrated on wriing, developing and producing documentary and feature films. For details of Ian's productions and publications check the Hartbeat website.
Dr Jun Xiao worked in Xi’an Television in China before she migrated to Australia. She lectured in the Department of Communications in the University of Canberra, worked as a senior public servant, and managed a number of large projects in the areas of business development and media production, including international collaborations.
Films Under Development
We currently have a slate of films under development, including
Looking for Johnny Fong, 尋找方喬尼 Feature–Historical Romance An internation co-production set in Australia, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Australian nurse Agnes Kelly comes to China in 1895, a time of plague and revolution, to marry a Hong Kong policeman and discovers that her teenage love, Johnny Fong, is planning the overthrow of the Qing government.
The Porpoise and Captain Cousteau Pilot for a 6x1hr TV Series. A dramatised documentary about Ted Eldred and Maurice Batterham, the unknown Australians who developed the modern SCUBA system and their rivalry with Jacques Cousteau.
Bustard Head Feature–Comedy Comedy about a famous conductor who suffers a stroke while conducting Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and discovers a natural but untrained soprano in the nursing home… who has a secret. She has been fated to play the real-life role of Senta and the Dutchman is scheduled to make his next visit to the Bustard Head Lighthouse