Sujit Varma

Beach House Pictures

Founded by Donovan Chan and Jocelyn Little, Beach House Pictures (BHP) is a Blue Ant Media production company and one of Asia's largest indies. Headquartered in Singapore and operating in the US, China and Japan, with the latter represented by Tokyo-based Vesuvius Pictures, Beach House Pictures specializes in factual, unscripted and scripted programming for international streamers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, Chinese platforms such as Tencent, Bilibili and CCTV9, and major TV networks such as Discovery, Nat Geo and Smithsonian, creating the high-profile series ED STAFFORD: FIRST MAN OUT, WILD CITY with DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, ART OF CRAFT, MASTERCHEF SINGAPORE, RAFFLES: REMAKING AN ICON and CHINA FROM ABOVE. For 6 years running, BHP has been voted by its peers and channel commissioners into the REALSCREEN GLOBAL 100 list of the world's most innovative and respected non-scripted production companies, a testament to its international standing. BHP's other business divisions include children's arm BEACH HOUSE KIDS who are behind the live action puppetry show HICCUP & SNEEZE (Best Preschool Programme, Asian Academy Creative Awards) and scripted series MY BUDDY BONEMASHER; BEACH HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT produces formats and general entertainment programs like RECORD RIDES (Best Branded Programme or Series, Asian Academy Creative Awards) and CESAR'S RECRUIT; BEACH HOUSE LABS are experts in digital and branded content with international clients like CNBC, AUDI, RAFFLES and MIZUNO; and BEACH HOUSE ACADEMY offers outreach programs and skills training to established and aspiring producers throughout Asia. BHP launched its scripted slate in 2019, acquiring the rights to iconic Asian properties such as the 70s spy thriller CLEOPATRA WONG and MR MIDNIGHT, a best-selling kids horror fiction book series.