Windy LighthouseStudios
Windy LighthouseStudios
Australian production company · International outlook
Led by filmmaker Dominic Allen, Windy Lighthouse develops and produces visually distinctive work at the intersection of culture, place and big contemporary themes. Made for festivals, broadcasters and partners who value originality, craft and impact.
A studio with work released, in production and in development across feature documentary and narrative.
Award-winning VR and 360 work, produced with ReddogsVR and in collaboration with Traditional Owners.
An immersive journey through First Nations song and dance, narrated by the late David Gulpilil, featuring more than 150 dancers across nine locations. Produced with ReddogsVR.
APDG Gold Award · Museums Australasia Best in Show · Script by Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch · Funded by Screen Australia and Film Victoria.
A Yindjibarndi creation story told through 8K 360 footage and giant puppets traversing the ancient Pilbara, carrying the sacred song and dance of the Burndud.
Created with Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation, led by elder Lorraine Coppin. Produced with ReddogsVR.
Selected festival and industry honours across the studio's work.
Press, podcasts and writing about the studio's work.
Windy Lighthouse Studios is led by award-winning Australian filmmaker Dominic Allen, whose work spans narrative cinema, feature documentary, immersive VR and commercial production. From The Cat Empire in Havana to Rwanda's Grey Matter at Tribeca, from offshore wind across thirteen countries to the Antarctic with Lewis Pugh, the through-line is visually distinctive storytelling about culture, place and planetary systems, with an international reach.
The studio's environmental slate includes Planet Sun and Frozen Waters, alongside Planet Wind, a Syk Flyk Productions feature co-produced by Windy Lighthouse Studios, created and hosted by Andy Evans. With ReddogsVR it produced the First Nations VR works Carriberrie and Marrga. It is in production as co-producers on Karl and developing Spray and The Black Line.
Dominic Allen, Founder & Creative Director
Margarita Decoster is Producer and Chief Financial Officer at Windy Lighthouse Studios. With a background in business economics and more than a decade across FMCG, nonprofit, film production and immersive technology, she leads the financial and operational engine of the studio: budgeting and financial oversight, production financing and cash flow, reporting to partners and funders, and the operational strategy that keeps a multi-project slate moving.
She combines project and operations management with stakeholder engagement, developing the workflows and systems that bring work in on time, on budget and with purpose, from global documentaries to high-impact VR training programs. Having lived and worked around the world, she manages global partners and cross-functional teams with a genuinely international outlook.
Margarita Decoster, Producer & CFO
