Rantan Productions is a small, independent television production company based at Mullumbimby, Northern NSW.

Executive Producer, George Willison has produced news, current affairs, environmental, lifestyle and documentary programmes for both free-to-air networks and subscription television, for over 30 years.

With credits including Eyewitness News, ABC-TV's Nationwide, The Home Show, The Midday Show, Wildlife, Getaway and Better Homes & Gardens - Willison's background has enabled Rantan to successfully produce a wide range of programmes - usually the preserve of much larger production entities.

Rantan's blockbuster environmental special - Down To Earth - for the Ten Network, drew overwhelming positive public response and is accredited with kick-starting Australia's environmental awareness. Many current recycling and energy conservation policies have their genesis in Down To Earth.

Rantan's first foray into documentary filmmaking - Out In The Bush - produced for SBS-Television's The Cutting Edge - was widely endorsed by parents, educators and policy-makers trying to make sense of Australia's tragic and inexorable rural youth suicide statistics. The film is now a valued resource in a wide variety of organisations and has become a milestone by raising awareness and dialogue about issues confronting Gay and Lesbian rural youth and negative rural attitudes towards homosexuality.

Similarly - Rantan's next documentary offering - Outing Gay Hate and the companion resources kit, researched and compiled by Associate Producer Antony Moore, is acknowledged as an invaluable aid to increase the understanding of attitudes which underpin the alarming level of gay hate crime in Australia. Outing Gay Hate - also produced for SBS Television's The Cutting Edge - featured a revealing and controversial interview with High Court Judge, Justice Michael Kirby.

In April 2001 Foxtel's Director of Television, Brian Walsh, commissioned Rantan to develop and produce a new, high production-value interview / lifestyle series to be presented by style icon - Maggie Tabberer and to feature successful, well-known Australians. In the first series of Maggie... At Home With, internationally acclaimed Australian artists, John Olsen and Tim Storrier opened their homes to Maggie as did celebrated fashion designers Harry Watt, George Gross, Trent Nathan and the controversial Charlie Brown. Lady Susan Renouf, Lillian Frank, and Blanche d'Alpuget also welcomed Maggie into their homes. Rantan has recently been commissioned by Foxtel's The Biography Channel, to produce a 3rd series of the Maggie... At Home With and production will commence mid July 2005.

In August 2004, Rantan was asked by Foxtel's W. Channel to develop and produce a new ten episode life-issue series to be presented by Antonia Kidman. The Bigger Things examines health, relationships, parenting, spirituality, personality, ageing - and everything in between. An information survival guide for the 21st century - the series shows viewers through case-studies, tips and expert advice how to be more satisfied, harmonious and fulfilled despite life's often daunting challenges. The Bigger Things premiered on W. Channel at 8:00pm - Saturday 14 May, 2005.

Rantan is proud of the variety of original Australian television content it has produced in recent years and remains committed to its core principles of social justice and responsible, ethical, production practices.