Bill Leimbach

Bill Leimbach has been producing film and television for over 25 years. His last feature film venture, the critically acclaimed and box office favourite World War I epic, Beneath Hill 60, picked up 12 Australian Film Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Script. More recently, his production of the short comedy Departure Lounge - A Bollywood Affair won Best Comedy of 2015, at the Australian Film Institute Social Shorts Awards. After University in California, Bill trained at Film School in London and with the BBC. He worked in the UK film industry for ten years before moving his production company to Australia in the 1980's from where he has produced over 25 films for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, BBC, ABC and SBS and Australian commercial TV networks 7, 9 and 10. Currently, Bill is developing a new historically-based feature film, Banjo & Matilda, to be directed and written by Morgan O'Neill, based on an initial screenplay by Beneath Hill 60 writer, David Roach.