Adelaide Film Festival 2026
TIBER
Feature Fiction Competition. World premiere at Adelaide Film Festival.
16 & 24 October · Adelaide
Screening details
Australian production company · International outlook
Cinematic feature documentaries and authored screen stories.
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.
On screen.
Upcoming cinema screenings and films available to stream.
Now on SBS On Demand
Planet Sun
Explore the film on SBS On Demand.
About Planet SunNow on SBS On Demand
Planet Wind
The 2026 extended broadcast cut is available on SBS On Demand.
About Planet WindSBS viewing is subject to its account, location and availability requirements. Festival bookings are handled by Adelaide Film Festival.
Festival news · 2026
TIBER · Three Byron Bay Film Festival nominations · Adelaide Feature Fiction Competition selection
Explore recognitionThe Slate
A studio with work released, in production and in development across feature documentary and narrative.
Released & Festival
In Production
In Development
Immersive & First Nations
Award-winning VR and 360 work, produced with ReddogsVR and in collaboration with Traditional Owners.
Gold · 2019 AWARD Awards
Carriberrie
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.
Carriberrie · Gold, 2019 AWARD Awards · Interactive Film · Agency: Isobar · Script by Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch · Funded by Screen Australia and Film Victoria.
New release · 8K 360 immersive
Marrga
Marrga
Ngurra Nyujunggamu — When the World Was Soft
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.
Awards & festival recognition
Film, creative and company recognition — with wins, nominations and selections clearly credited.
In competition · 2026
TIBER
NomineeBest Film
Byron Bay Film Festival · 2026
NomineeBest Dramatic Feature
Byron Bay Film Festival · 2026
NomineeBest Byron Bay Film
Byron Bay Film Festival · 2026
Competition selectionFeature Fiction Competition
Adelaide Film Festival · 2026
Across the work
Recognition grouped by project and recipient.
Planet Sun
- Winner
Best Melbourne Documentary
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival · 2026
- Winner
Best Director – Australia · Dominic Allen
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival · 2026
Director · Dominic Allen
- Winner
Planet Wind
- Winner
Audience Choice – Feature
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival · 2024
Director · Dominic Allen
- Winner
Carriberrie
- Gold
Interactive Film
AWARD Awards · 2019
- Winner
Best Use of VR
B&T Awards
Four more awards & nominations
- Silver
Melbourne Design Awards
- Winner
Communication · Branding and Identity
Good Design Awards · 2019
- Winner
Best in Film
MADC Awards
- Nominee
International VR Award
Adelaide Film Festival
Director · Dominic Allen. Campaign and design awards recognise collaborating teams, including Isobar, Red Dogs VR, Airbag and Viva Sound.
- Gold
Carriberrie Online
- Winner
Best in Show · Multimedia
MAPDA · 2021
- Winner
Program Website · Level B
MAPDA · 2021
National Film and Sound Archive · Designers: Luke Bubb & Patrik Hübner. Website recognition for the online project.
- Winner
Frozen Waters
- Winner
Best Documentary
My Name Is Climate · 2025
- Honourable mention
Frozen Waters
Mirada Corta · Mexico City · 2025
- Nominee
Best Film
Future World Film Festival · Portugal · 2025
Producer · Dominic Allen
- Winner
Two Men & early recognition
- Winner
Emerging Australian Filmmaker · Two Men
Melbourne International Film Festival · 2009
- Winner
Rising Talent · Dominic Allen
Inside Film Awards · 2009
Filmmaker awards · Dominic Allen
- Winner
Spinifex Gum
- Nominee
Best New Australian Work
Helpmann Awards · 2019
Company accolade · Spinifex Gum
- Nominee
Grey Matter
- Winner
Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film
Tribeca Film Festival · 2011
Actor award · Ramadhan “Shami” Bizimana
- Winner
In the News
Recent TIBER interviews and festival coverage, alongside stories from across the studio.
The Echo
6 October 2026 · Interview
Cinema: A river story
“an intimate father-daughter story”
Read interview
Byron Bay Film Festival
4 October 2026 · Festival interview
Meet the Filmmaker: Dominic Allen
“evocative landscapes, intimate father-daughter relationship and distinctly European sensibility”
Read interview
Cinema Australia
23 September 2026 · Premiere news
TIBER heads to its festival premieres
“The intimate and evocative drama”
Read story
FilmInk
23 September 2026 · Public notice
A festival discovery
“Tiber is a stunning discovery”
Mat Kesting, AFF CEO & Creative Director, quoted in FilmInk
Read notice
More from the studio
Monocle Radio · The Entrepreneurs
30 August 2023 · Episode 612
Andy Evans and "Planet Wind"
Andy Evans on the Planet Wind documentary and his work in offshore wind energy.
Listen →
The Conversation
March 2018
The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
Kate Gwynne on Carriberrie, immersive empathy and the role of museums in showing First Nations VR work.
Read article →
The Studio
Stories of culture, place and the themes that define our time.
Dominic Allen is an Australian writer, director and producer, and founder of Windy Lighthouse Studios. With a background in fine arts and art history, he works across narrative cinema, documentary and immersive media.
His short Two Men earned him MIFF’s Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award in 2009. He produced Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Grey Matter, which premiered at Tribeca, and founded ReddogsVR. His recent work includes the Italian-language feature TIBER and the documentaries Planet Sun and Planet Wind, now streaming on SBS On Demand in Australia.
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
Also from the studio: Every Second Friday Nine holes. Good company. Bragging rights. ↗
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Producer & CFO
The structure behind the storytelling.
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.
Finance & StrategyBudgeting · financing · financial oversight · reporting
Production & OperationsProject management · workflows · scalable systems
PartnershipsFunders · global partners · cross-functional teams
SectorsFilm · immersive / VR · FMCG · nonprofit
Margarita Decoster, Producer & CFO