Cascade Films, a Melbourne based production company, is owned by filmmakers 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 the Tass and Parker team have directed and shot WB movie SAMANTHA: AN AMERICAN GIRL HOLIDAY (starring AnnaSophia Robb, Mia Farrow and Jordan Bridges) through Julia Roberts' Red Om production company. In 2003 they shot the CBS movie, UNDERCOVER CHRISTMAS (starring Jami Gertz and Tyne Daly), following their work on the 2001 Walt Disney Movies THE MIRACLE WORKER and CHILD STAR. Undercover Christmas won its ratings slot and was CBS' top rating Made for TV Movie for the 2003 season, while The Miracle Worker was the third top rating movie on U.S. Network TV in 2001.

Cascade Films have recently been involved in the theatrical production of THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE with Nadia Tass directing David Parker's adaptation of C.S. Lewis' book. The production premiered in Melbourne on New Year's Eve 2002 to rave reviews and sell out business.

Cascade Films also own and operate the Melbourne Film Studio, a complex including a world standard sound stage and an office block housing 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, Mr Reliable, The Big Steal, Road Games, Quigley Down Under and Ned Kelly.

While Cascade Films continues to produce films with the familiar Tass/Parker writing/directing team, the company is now utilising its experience to engage writers and directors who will develop their projects under the Cascade Films banner. Writers Sarah Neal, Nicholas Flanagan and Bruno Moro are at present developing film scripts for Cascade.