Cascade Films is a Melbourne based production company owned by film makers Nadia Tass and David Parker. Since its inception in 1983, Cascade Films has produced a series of acclaimed feature films, starting with MALCOLM in 1985. Malcolm won 8 Australian Film Institute awards including Best Picture, Best Script and Best Director. This was followed by RIKKY & PETE for United Artists, THE BIG STEAL (9 Australian Film Institute nominations), MR RELIABLE (Nominated Best Picture AFI) for Polygram Filmed Entertainment, PURE LUCK for Universal Studios, and AMY for Beyond/Village Roadshow. Amy has won 23 international awards including the 1998 People’s Choice Award and Best Film, Grand Prix Cannes Junior and the Le Prix Education Nationale at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. Cascade Films also produced STARK a 3 part mini-series for the BBC.

More recently they have directed and shot Walt Disney TV Movies Of The Week "The Miracle Worker" and "Child Star. The Miracle Worker was the third top rating movie on Network TV last year in the U.S. CHILD STAR was shot in Australia with Melbourne doubling for 1930’s Los Angeles.

Nadia Tass & David Parker also own and operate the Melbourne Film Studio, a complex including a world standard sound stage and an office block comprising production offices and permanent industry related tenants ranging from film & tv producers, post production facilities, talent agents, music producers and casting agents.

Feature productions that have been through the Melbourne Film Studio include The Man From Snowy River, Muriel’s Wedding, Stark, Thin Red Line, Shine, Lightning Jack, Noah’s Ark, Death in Brunswick, Moby Dick, Hercules Returns, Proof, Diana and Me, The Big Steal and Road Games.