Press Kit

Company History

Most production companies start with small productions, like an advert or company video, something that is easy to make as they build up their reputations and portfolios. What they don’t do is spend an entire year filming a feature-length documentary, while riding horses twenty to thirty kilometres every day.
That, however, was exactly what we did. So in 2005 we founded Purple Sheep Productions and began planning our year-long horse trek that we hoped would become a documentary.
This was going to be an epic undertaking, so we tried all of the main funding authorities to help fund the filming of the documentary. Despite meeting all of their requirements, every single one declined our applications, stating that “this is not how beginners start out”.
Upset, but undeterred by those rejections we decided (much to the shock and horror of others) to quit our jobs at a large TV Station, sell our house and fund it ourselves.
We then needed funding for the trek side of things, so we approached many companies for sponsorship. At first, we only managed to convince one sponsor (who only gave us a five percent chance of actually achieving our goal). With the start date looming we were cutting it fine but we managed to get some big companies to back us, just in the nick of time.
Of course, we did achieve our goal and the result was the documentary (and book) called ‘Down, Across & Up’.
Once that was all done, we had the small problem of having no jobs and no house. Determined to keep Purple Sheep alive, we went about finding clients who needed adverts and videos. Since then we have made many adverts and videos and more documentaries (some which have aired on prime time) and continue to do so today (as well as having a place to live).