Trish Lake - Producer

A career spanning three decades, independent producer and former ABC journalist Trish Lake has worked in media, communications and the entertainment industries.

She is principal of Freshwater Productions, which she established in 1991 to pursue commercial and creative interests in film, television and publishing and in 2001 established Freshwater Pictures to develop and produce feature films and television drama. Three years later she won the prestigious 2004 SPAA Feature Film Producer of the Year Award for her first feature film, GETTIN’ SQUARE.

Freshwater is currently producing the feature film SUBDIVISION (Dir - Sue Brooks; produced in Hervey Bay, Queensland; distributor - BVI/Disney) and co-producing the feature documentary THE BURNING SEASON which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009 (Dir/Prod – Cathy Henkel; distributor – Freshwater/Virgo & Gil Scrine Films). Trish has also recently produced two half-hour documentaries – ROLLER DERBY DOLLS for ABC Television / Film Australia, and RARE CHICKEN RESCUE which won Sydney Film Festival’s Best Documentary award (the Dendy Award) and the Best Short Documentary award at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival. 

Trish is the Executive Producer of the cinema documentary MY AMERICA (Dir – Peter Hegedus; Distributor - Rialto; International Sales - Horizon Motion Pictures; SBSi) which is currently in production. She also negotiated the Australian theatrical release with BVI/ Disney for the award-winning cinema documentary, SHARKWATER (Dir – Rob Stewart).

Trish was until recently national president of the Screen Producer’s Association of Australia (SPAA) having had three terms at SPAA’s helm. She previously served two years as a feature film councillor on SPAA council and two years as SPAA’s Queensland chapter Head.