United Film & Productions Pty Ltd
United Films is a new platform exploring Australian stories of International significance. Stories which unite us, show how we link in globally and stories that are of our common humanity, for peace and often stories which deserve a wider audience.
Gull Force - the forgotten Battalion
SANDRA PIRES-PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Experienced Producer/Director Australian Chinese WWII History The Delfram Dispute 1938: Pig fron Bob CCTV 9/History Channel-
Finalist for best Australian Documentary of the Year. Sandra was invited to Nanjing Youth Peace Conference to present, screened her film at the Nanjing Massacre Museum and Nanjing University.
Sandra was invited to speak at the A Special concert commemoration the 80 anniversary of the end of World War II at a spocial concert at the Sydney Town Hall Founding Chair of Screen Illawarra,
Produced and directed over 40 War and Military short form documentaries for Australian Audiences. Sandra Pires is an a Pires is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in Wollongong and the founder of the production company Why Documentaries, known for producing socially conscious films that preserve and amplify Australian community and industrial history. She is best known for feature documentaries such as Beneath Black Skies, which chronicles coal mining heritage in the Illawerra, and The Dalfram Dispute 1938: Pig Iron Bob, a landmark film about a pivotal industrial protest that has been broadcast nationally and internationally.
Over more than 25 years she has created major community storytelling projects including & Me Australia: Our Stories, Our Community and the long-running Yasterday Stories series. Her work has been recognised with numerous honours, including National Multicultural Marketing Small Business Award for Why Documentaries, an IMB Community Hero Award, an Australia Day Medal from Wollongong City Council, and the Wollongong City Council Innovation Achievement Aw Award for her contribution to heritage, multicultural and community filmmaking
Passion for Documentaries with peace as the core end theme.
Richard Yuan
Richard Yuan (Film Producer-Gull Forcel
Author, Tourist Guide Professionally in Beijing, Postgraduate degree in Tourism Management in University of Canberra, Lecturer at China
Tourism University, Chairman of Australis China Entrepreneurs club. Vice President, Hunan Overseas Friendship Association Overseas Advisor, Feckorations of Retumed Overseas Chinese (Hunan, Shaanxi, Wuhan)
Chairman, Australia China Entrepreneurs Club Richard Yuan JP is a prominent Chinese-Austral tralian community leader entrepreneur, and media figure. He He ser Vice President of the Hunan Overseas Friendship Association, Overseas Advisor to the Federations of Returned Overseas Chinese in Hunan, Shaarixi, and Wuhan:
Chairman of the Australia China Entrepreneurs Club, Chairman & CEO of ABC World Pty Ltd, President of ABC Media; and International Ambassador of the Australian Small Business Association. He is also a government-appointed Justice of the Peace. Yuan is recognised fo for his expertise in Australia-China government relations and his commitment to telling the true story of China to Western audiences. Graduating from Beijing International Studies University in 198, in 2000 founded ABC World World Pty Pr Ltd, expanding into education, investment, tourism, real estate, media, and event management. In 2008 he launched ABC Media, which today operates one of the largest Chinese-language digital platforms in the Southern Hemisphere. Its flagshipWeChat channel, Chinese View the World. has amassed more than 500.000 followers.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yuan organised humanitarian flights delivering medical supplies between China and Australia. He successfully pursued legal cases against defamatory reporting in Australian and British mainstream media, winning public apologies and compensation a landmark precedent for overseas Chinese
In the lead up to the 2022 federal election, Yuan's outspoken interview with SBS criticising govemment China policy influenced Chinese Australian voting patterns. He has been named by the Australian Financial Review as one of the most influential Chinese Australians. He also a Friendship Ambassador Changsha, continuing his mission to build bridges between Australia and China