Armadale: Prolific Oscar-nominated film producer Paul Wiegard selling 1922-built modernist home

Leading film producer Paul Wiegard, known for projects such as Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Balibo and the Oscar-nominated Memoir of a Snail, is selling his sustainable Armadale house.

Executive film producer and Madmen Entertainment chief executive Paul Wiegard is selling his Armadale house.

Prominent film producer and executive Paul Wiegard has listed his award-winning, modernist-style Armadale house with $7m-$7.7m price hopes.

In 1996, Wiegard co-founded the independent Australian film and television distribution and rights management company Madman Entertainment of which he is now the chief executive.

He’s also served as an executive producer on more than 40 feature films and documentaries — including the 2022 Shane Warne release.

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Wiegard’s movies include Hunt for the Wilderpeople starring Sam Neill, Animal Kingdom starring Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver, The Hunter starring Willem Dafoe, Transfusion starring Sam Worthington and Balibo with Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac and Gyton Grantley.

He worked on the stop-motion film Memoir of a Snail featuring the voices of Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Nick Cave and Jacki Weaver, that was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards.

Among his other projects are documentaries covering sporting greats including Aron Baynes, Andrew Bogut, Adam Goodes, Nova Peris and Amanda Spratt.

Kay & Burton Stonnington’s Ada Taylor declined to comment on the four-bedroom house’s owner but records show it belongs to Wiegard.

The house was designed by architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, known for helping to bring the Arts and Crafts Movement – which aimed to improve design standards and celebrate workmanship, as a reaction against mass production – to Australia.

The pool is set among landscaped gardens.

Madman Entertainment co-founders Tim Anderson and Paul Wiegard. Picture: Supplied.

The abode, designed by noted architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, was built in 1922.

More than a decade ago, the house was extended in a project led by EME Design director Luke Middleton with a focus on integrating sustainability with its period character.

The project won the Building Designers Association of Victoria 2011 award for a residential heritage conservation project.

“The current owners recently fully refurbished the house, honouring the extension and original design,” Ms Taylor said.

Original elements like a semicircular atrium with Ionic columns and leadlight windows remain in the home.

Sustainable features include double-glazed windows, hydronic heating and a large water tank that services the washing machine, garden and toilets.

Bi-fold doors lead from the kitchen to outdoors.

A deck to enjoy a meal or to simply relax upon.

Julian Dennison and Sam Neill in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a film that Paul Wiegard was executive producer on.

Ms Taylor said that automated louvre windows engineered especially for cross-ventilation and to release heat were installed at the home’s rear, across both storeys.

In the garden there’s a swimming pool heated by both solar and gas systems, a sauna and bathroom.

Natural materials like Silvertop Ash timber have been used throughout the home, while the kitchen is fitted with the Miele appliances, an island bench and bi-fold doors.

A creative light fixture rounds out the dining area.

A set of curved windows and doors let in plenty of sunshine.

A scene from Memoir of a Snail, a stop-motion animation directed by Adam Elliot, who won an Oscar for his 2003 short film Harvie Krumpet.

“I think the most exceptional feature of this property is the use of ash wood, it gives the most beautiful warmth. And because of the northern orientation, the light plays off all the different textures in the home,” Ms Taylor said.

She added that the house would suit multi-generational living with the main bedrooms upstairs and others downstairs.

Expressions of interest for the Armadale home close at 5pm on March 19.

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