ABOUT |
THIRD STOREY PICTURES
Third Storey Pictures is a Western Australian based production company co-founded by film director Martin Wilson and producer Nicole Ferraro. The company aims to engage and ignite audiences with compelling storytelling.
Third Storey’s work includes 2022 AACTA Award nominated and 2023 WA Mental Health Media Award winning feature film PIECES and the nationally acclaimed STOP THE COWARD PUNCH advertising campaigns that successfully rebranded terms like “king hit” and “one punch” attacks as the “coward’s punch”. The series of high-profile commercials both changed social attitudes towards male violence and saw the phrase enter the Australian vernacular.
MARTIN WILSON – Director, Writer & Producer
With a career spanning 25 years, Martin Wilson is an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts nominated film director. His debut feature film GREAT WHITE was released in 2021 through Universal Pictures, starring Katrina Bowden (30 Rock, Bold and the Beautiful) and Aaron Jakubenko (Tidelands, The Shannara Chronicles). The New York Times named Great White as one of top 5 film action films. Despite Covid 19 Great White earned a coveted North American cinema release in 2021 and was picked up by premium horror streamer Shudder in the United States. Martin is represented by Los Angeles based management company Zero Gravity, creators of the hit Netflix series Ozark.
Martin’s second feature PIECES, released in 2022, examines the lives of those living with complex mental illness. The film aims to bring to the surface the contribution carers make as they are often the invisible, unheard champions of complex mental illnesses while also looking to break down the stigma and stereotypes and other misconception often attributed to people living with mental illness. PIECES has received nominations for the 2022 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards for Best Indie Film and Best Costume Design. Martin has also been nominated for a 2022 Australian Directors’ Guild Award for Best Direction for a Narrative Feature (Budget under $1mil) for PIECES.
Martin is a passionate advocate for social issues and has several clients in this space including; Helping Minds, Mental Health Commission, Parkerville Children and Youth Care, The Australian Child Protection Authority and the Waalitj Foundation.
Martin also received Australian Directors' Guild 2018 Award nominee for his work on Helping Minds - Real Stories. He is also the winner of the PADC Diamond Skull Award for Best Director in 2021 and most recently for 2023. His extensive commercial work includes directing the national 'Cowards Punch' TVC campaigns with 4 x World Boxing Champion Danny Green. This ground-breaking campaign has won and been nominated for several awards and has garnered International acclaim rebranding terms like “King Hit" and “One Punch" attacks as the “Coward's Punch". This term has now become part of the national vernacular and is recognised through the Urban Dictionary.
NICOLE FERRARO – Producer
Following a decade long career as a costume designer and stylist working on television commercials, feature film and television drama as well as prior work in the fashion industry within production roles, Nicole Ferraro is now a Perth-based screen producer and the co-founder of Third Storey Pictures. Her costume design credits include the films TOP KNOT DETECTIVE, THE NAKED WANDERER and KOKO: A RED DOG STORY and major advertising campaigns for Lotterywest, Tourism WA, St Johns Ambulance, Tourism WA and XXXX Gold.
As a producer she has overseen various music videos and television commercials, including spots for Ross North Homes and three national campaigns for STOP THE COWARD PUNCH including “Man to Man”, “Swipe Out Violence at Schoolies” and ‘Life Sentence’. After a world Premiere at CinefestOz, Nicole’s debut feature film PIECES was released across cinemas in Australia in 2022 and is nominated for two 2022 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) awards for Best Indie Film and Best Costume Design in Film.
Nicole was also a founding committee member of the Western Australian chapter of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) and served the organisation from 2016 - 2019.