Marian Bartsch established MAGO Films in 1999 and has produced close to 100 hours of successful and award-winning, factual entertainment and television documentaries.
These include award-winning documentaries, such as ABC’s landmark WWI documentary, “The Waler: Australia’s Great War Horse”, nominated for an AFI/AACTA Award for Best Cinematography, and Screen Producers Australia Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. Others award-winning films include “Hoover’s Gold” and “Life Architecturally”, nominated for Best Arts Documentary at the prestigious ATOM Awards. “The Fabulous Flag Sisters ” won Best Documentary at the Roma Film Festival. She has also produced many popular food travel series including “Surfing the Menu “ format (five series for Discovery and ABC ), ”Surfing the Menu the Next Generation”, ”Born to Cook “ with Jack Stein and “Recipes that Rock” with musician Alex James and most recently “Street Food Nomad – Kolkata”.
See Selected Credits Marian Bartsch Producer
2024 Street Food Nomad – Kolkata 6 x 30 min SBS Food and Insight TV Producer
2022/3 Secrets of the Interrogation Room, 10 x 1hr, A&E, Executive Post Producer
2022 Pure Imagination by Janice Wong, ABC Artworks, Producer
2019 On Country Kitchen x 2 series, 9 x 25 min NITV / SBS, Producer
2018 Born To Cook Jack Stein Kimberley, 6 x 26 min, SBS UKTV, Producer
2017 Shark Soup 1 x 10 min, Discovery Channel Aust, Producer
2017 Born To Cook Jack Stein, 4 x 26 min SBS UKTV, Producer
2016 On Country Kitchen, 6 x 25 min NITV / SBS, Producer
2015 Surfing the Menu the Next Generation (13 x 25 min), ABC / Discovery Asia, Producer
2015 Carlcuccio’s Six Season, 6 x 25 min SBS (for CM Films), Co Producer
2014 The Waler Aust Great War Horse, 1×57 min& 1x75min ABC TV, Producer
2013-14 Recipes that Rocks, (Series 1 & 2), UK Food Network/ NGO, Producer
2013 Tribal Scent, 1 x 60 min NITV (for CM Films), Co Producer
2011 Life Architecturally, 1 x 56 min, ABC, Producer
2010 Quickies in My Kitchen, 13 x 30 mins, Foxtel Lifestyle Channel, Producer
2007 – 2009 The Best in Australia (3 series), 8 x 46 min Foxtel Lifestyle Channel, Producer
2007 The Fabulous Flag Sisters, 1 x 60min, SBS and Fox Italy, Producer
2006 Surfing the Menu, 8 x 26 minutes (Series 4), produced Eight-part x 30 min ABC/ Asia/Discovery UK/TV3 NZ/XYZ Entertainment, Producer
2005 2005 Hoover’s Gold, 1 x 60 min, SBS, Producer
2004 – 2005 Surfing the Menu, (Series 2 & 3), ABC/ Discovery UK/TV3 NZ/XYZ, Producer
2003 Surfing the Menu (8 x 26), Food, travel, adventure series ABC/UKTV, Producer
2001 What in the World is Feng Shui, 1 x 60 min Calton International Distributional, Producer
2000 Xpats the Alien Connection , 1 x 50 min ABC, Producer/Director
1999 Appetite for Asia, 13 x 26 min (For CVA Film and TV), Producer
