Robyn Nevin in Relic

Carver Films is a partnership between award-winning producers Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw. Carver is a Melbourne-based development and production company making independent film and television, with global reach.

Carver’s latest feature Run Rabbit Run, written by acclaimed author Hannah Kent, directed by Daina Reid and starring Sarah Snook (Succession), premiered at Sundance 2023 and became the no. 1 most watched English language film on Netflix in Australia and the USA over its opening weekend.

Carver is next producing Photo Booth, with US producing partner Cathy Konrad (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma), from writing-directing duo Spencer and Lloyd Harvey, as well as The Bone Sparrow, a feature adaptation with director Kim Mordaunt (Boy Swallows Universe, The Rocket).

Following the success of Relic, which premiered at Sundance and sold around the world, Carver is also reteaming with Natalie Erika James on an original feature set to go into production in 2024. Relic is streaming on STAN in Australia and VOD in the US, starring Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote. 

Previous titles include Eddie Martin's Fire Front, award-winning SBS miniseries Sunshine (co-produced with Easy Tiger); Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan (Sundance 2015); New Zealand-set Shopping (Sundance, Berlin 2013); and Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown  (Cannes 2011).