Vicarii Productions is the independent production house of Australian writer, producer and filmmaker Lyn Vickery.
Its purpose is simple: to find compelling human stories, approach them honestly and bring them to the screen with imagination and care.
Our films explore the people, decisions and moments that shaped our world — from the battlefields and courts of the past to the innovators and disruptors of today.
We do not put historical figures on trial. We bring surviving evidence back into the room and ask the questions fame has pushed aside.
At Vicarii, we are driven by motivation, truth and humanity — and a belief that the past still has something to say to the present.
In Production
Ordinary people. Extraordinary lives.
Today’s technology allows the faces, places and experiences of earlier generations to be seen with new clarity. Used carefully, it can help audiences connect with history not as a list of distant dates, but as the lived experience of real people.
Vicarii combines archival material, family photographs, personal records, original narration and contemporary production methods to tell those stories without losing sight of the truth at their centre.
The first stories carried forward
Tales of Our Forefathers is Vicarii Productions’ four-part family-history documentary series. Drawn largely from family albums, storage boxes and surviving records, it follows one family through British India, Imperial China, two World Wars and the building of modern Australia.
The people at its heart were not famous and did not write history books. Yet, like thousands of others, their lives are what history is truly made of. The series is the beginning — not the limit — of what Vicarii Productions intends to bring to audiences.
Development archive
A production slate built over decades
Film and television projects developed or co-developed by Lyn Vickery, spanning documentary, historical drama, science fiction, crime, comedy and factual entertainment.
Selected movie and television concepts, scripts and productions from the Lyn Vickery development archive.
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