DARREN MCFARLANE is a highly experienced senior producer and has taken his production expertise to Broad Radio, an independent media company which he co-founded alongside award winning No. 1 radio personality, Jo Stanley. Broad Radio is an online radio network for women by women to address the gender parity missing on our airwaves. Together they will be launching Broad Radio in 2024 that can be listened live through an App or online.As a senior producer, Darren has worked on commercials as well as numerous TV series, web series, short films and features. His projects include line-producing the AACTA award winning 'High Ground', starring Simon Baker and Jack Thompson, Tony Rogers’ award winning web series, ‘Bruce’, and the Jacobson Brothers feature film, ‘Brothers Nest’. He was the Producer for the award-winning short film, ‘Grace’, that screen at St Kilda Film Festival in 2024 and Line Producer for the multi-award winning online series, ‘Monologue’ - both of these productions proving Darren’s ability to help create outstanding content within challenging timelines and shoestring budgets. While Darren was doing his PhD at RMIT he met film students Leigh Whannell and James Wan and produced their short film, 'Saw', which they took to LA as a proof of concept to launch their horror franchise careers. Darren went on to work with Glendyn Ivin and Greig Fraser on their Palm D’or winning short, 'Cracker Bag', then a number of long-form projects such as 'Charlotte’s Web', 'Rush' and 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes' where he was the stand in for William Hurt’s hands (true story). Darren produced two seasons of comedy series 'Metro Sexual' for 9Now and 9GO, and whilst working on Truce Films' comedy series he was also a Senior Producer in the TV commercials department. Following that, he spent 8 months as Lead Producer at Hogarth, Melbourne, overseeing the production of integrated content production for the Suncorp brands, AAMI, GIO, Vero and Bingle working closely with the creative agency.