Michael Pignataro
Producers of TelevisionBased on the South Coast of NSW, producer Michael Pignataro established Essential Films in 2002 as a film/video duplication business.
His passion for film and television has seen it grow to be the leading television production company in the Shoalhaven.
In 2007 Essential Films created Living on the Coast - a locally made television series... on viewing the pilot, program manager Henri de Gorter said, "the show was visually fantastic and it will be successful on Television Sydney".
Airing on tvs, the newest free to air television station in Sydney, also Melbourne and Adelaide, it attracts an audience of over 120,000 viewers per week