“Ground Control are leaders in physical production”
Al Gough & Miles Millar | Showrunners / Executive Producers
Who we are.
GROUND CONTROL was founded by Mel Turner & Axel Paton who offer highly comprehensive production and producing services in New Zealand and Australia for international studios & production companies. Their robust and motivated producing combination, backed by their expertise and highly skilled team, makes GROUND CONTROL an essential counterpart to your next project. GROUND CONTROL have deep knowledge and international industry expertise from their extensive combined screen time hours of physical production. The team at GROUND CONTROL deliver an effortless blend of creative and practical producing in all stages of production, both on location and in studio, using adaptability and efficiency to deliver optimal results, on and off the screen. When partnering with GROUND CONTROL you can rely on their dense proven track record of providing solid reassuring results with their discerning, dedicated and bespoke ‘end to end’ production service as highly reputable industry leaders in physical production.
World-Class Partner
GROUND CONTROL has a long forged professional rapport with New Zealand’s world-class screen businesses, crew and cast. Collaborations and valuable working relationships like these are more than three decades deep and create the short-hand that create the foundations for success, these are all part of the working partnership with GROUND CONTROL. You will experience a significant advantage from this experience in early feasibility (board, budget and location library) through to practical location scouting, a dedicated director scout - and if confirmed, physical production, post production, and final delivery of the New Zealand Screen Production Rebate (NZSPR). GROUND CONTROL can scale a package to suit your next project, while being secure in the knowledge they are proficient in delivering international studio creative and financial expectations - but always remaining down to earth, solution focused and accessible in their producing approach.
