Flying Bark Productions

Flying Bark Productions Pty. Ltd. is an Australian entertainment and animation studio that is a subsidiary of Belgian children's production company Studio 100. The studio acts as a full-service production facility across feature films, television and an assorted range of digital content. The studio was established by Yoram and Sandra Gross in 1967 as Yoram Gross Film Studios.

In January 1996, Yoram Gross Film Studios announced that they've established a partnership with Australian media group Village Roadshow with the interest of Yoram Gross Film Studios being sold to them under their motion picture production division Village Roadshow Pictures, who renamed the company to Yoram Gross-Village Roadshow with American producer & founder of Village Roadshow's American division Village Roadshow Pictures Greg Coote and Village Roadshow's president & CEO Graham Burke joined the renamed Australian animation studio's board with their rebranded Yoram Gross studio agreed to produce ten animated series with Village Roadshow's television division. One year later in October 1997, Yoram Gross Village Roadshow made a co-production pact with Europe-based German production and distribution company based in Munich named EM.TV & Merchandising AG, who handled a joint pact. EM.TV bought out Village Roadshow's interest in 1999 when Village Roadshow was seeking a exit from television production, which was renamed to Yoram Gross-EM.TV. By December 1999, Yoram Gross-EM.TV launched their own in-house licensing division named YG-EM Licensing to handle their own productions including EM.TV's co-production alongside their Junior programming catalogue.

In January 2006 seven years after German media and entertainment company EM.TV & Merchandising's acquisition of 50% of Australian animation studio Yoram Gross EM.TV along with their successful partnership with Australian producer Yoram Gross through EM.'s division EM.Entertainment, EM.TV & Merchandising under their entertainment division EM. Entertainment announced their full acquisition of the remaining 50% stake of Australian entertainment and animation studio joint venture Yoram Gross EM.TV from its founders Yoram Gross and his wife Sandra Gross giving EM.Entertainment full control of the Australian animation and production group. By October 2006 following their acquisition of the remaining 50% stake ten months prior, Yoram Gross EM.TV announced their restructed and re-branded the company under its current name to Flying Bark Productions with the rebranded company plans to expanded their portfolio into the adult-animated and children's genre alongside their distribution division Yoram Gross Distribution which was also renamed to Flying Bark Distribution like their renamed company under EM.Entertainment.

One year later May 2007, Flying Bark Productions' then-parent company EM.TV announced that they're planning to exit the children's entertainment business and to sell their children's division including their Australian entertainment & animation production studio Flying Bark Productions, its distribution library including Yoram Gross' animated productions such as Blinky Bill, the library of Japanese animation studio Zuiyo and its classic catalogue such as Maya the Bee and Vic the Viking and their German television channel Junior.

In late-May 2008, EM.Sport Media AG announced that they've exited the animation and children's entertainment production business and sold their Australian animation and production studio Flying Bark Productions alongside its entertainment division EM. Entertainment including its German television channel Junior to Belgian production group Studio 100, giving the latter their own in-house Australia entertainment & animation production studio and the EM. Entertainment library including the Yoram Gross production library as EM.Sport Media AG will focus on their sport activities.

In late-March 2022, Flying Bark Productions announced the establishment of its new production arm outside of its kids and family portfolio dedicated to adult animated programmes along with scripted and unscripted projects for mature audiences named After Bark with Amy Noble and Kate Andrew becoming CCO and head of leagal & business affairs of the new production subsidiary.

In June 2024, Flying Bark Productions announced that they've opened an Madrid-based animation studio based in Spain and had partnered with Spanish animation studio supervisor Ramon Giráldez heading the new Spanish animation studio.

• The Eggsperts (2014)

• Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)
• The Little Convict (1979; also known as Toby and the Koala)
• Around the World with Dot (1981; also known as Dot and Santa Claus)
• Sarah (1982; also known as The Seventh Match and Sarah and the Squirrel)
• Dot and the Bunny (1983)
• The Camel Boy (1984)
• Epic (1984; also known as Epic: Days of the Dinosaur)
• Dot and the Koala (1985)
• Dot and Keeto (1986)
• Dot and the Whale (1986)
• Dot and the Smugglers (1987; also known as Dot and the Bunyip)
• Dot Goes to Hollywood (1987)
• The Magic Riddle (1991)
• Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala (1992; also known as Blinky Bill)
• Dot in Space (1994)
• Skippy Saves Bushtown (1999)
• Tabaluga and Leo (2005; with ZDF Enterprises)
• Blinky Bill's White Christmas (2005)
• Flipper and Lopaka: The Feature (2006)

• Bright Sparks (1989; with Beyond International Group)
• The Adventures of Blinky Bill (1993–2004)
• Samuel and Nina (1996–1997; with Children's Television Workshop and Cartoon Network Productions)
• Fairy Tale Police Department (2001–2002; with Talit Productions and Victory Media Group)
• Art Alive (2003–2005)
• Seaside Hotel (2003–2005; with Télé Images Kids)

• The Adventures of Candy Claus (1987)

• Atmosfear (2004)

• List of film production companies
• List of television production companies

• Official website
• Flying Bark Productions at IMDb
• Yoram Gross Films at IMDb
• Yoram Gross-EM.TV at IMDb