More SauceFilm · Television · Digital
01 / The studio

Distinctive stories.
Made with feeling.

The films are the point.

More Sauce is an independent production company built for stories that travel. Founded by Australian filmmaker Luke Eve in Sydney in 1999, and now working across Sydney, Valencia and Los Angeles, we make film, television and digital work with a distinct voice, emotional bite and an appetite for doing things differently.

Our projects do not just leave the edit suite. They find audiences. Low Life and High Life won more than 50 international awards between them. High Life, executive produced by Stephen Fry and starring Odessa Young, won Best Digital Original at C21 Content London, earned an AACTA nomination and took out the 2017 Web Series World Cup as the world’s most awarded web series. It sold to BBC Three, Channel 9, CanalPlay and Fullscreen.

Then came CANCELLED and ReCANCELLED. Created across Spain, Australia and Argentina, the two series turned a cancelled wedding and global lockdown into more than 10 million views and a swag of international awards, with CANCELLED earning a Rose d’Or nomination.

More Sauce executive-produced Luke Eve’s feature directorial debut, I Met A Girl, starring Brenton Thwaites and Lily Sullivan, which premiered at Busan and was released as a Netflix Original in Australia. We then produced UnCANCELLED as a standalone Australian-Spanish feature, filmed amid Valencia’s Fallas festival and released through Channel 9, Movistar Plus and Filmin.

From award-winning shorts and music videos to digital series and feature films, we make work that is personal, cinematic and built to connect. We currently have an ambitious slate of international co-productions, new series and short films in the works. And we are nowhere near done.

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02 / Team

The people behind
the sauce.

Small by design. International by instinct. More Sauce is led by company directors Luke Eve and Socratis Otto, working across writing, producing and directing.

Luke EveFounder
Founder: Writer · Producer · Director

Luke Eve

Luke Eve is an award-winning Australian writer, director and producer, an AFTRS graduate and the founder of More Sauce. Across more than 25 years, he has built a career around stories that find humour and tenderness in people coming gloriously unstuck.

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His early work included the Tropfest-winning short Australian Summer, music videos, commercials and television, earning an Australian Directors’ Guild nomination for the landmark documentary series Great Southern Land.

Luke created, produced and directed Low Life, High Life, CANCELLED and ReCANCELLED, four acclaimed series that have reached millions of viewers and won more than 70 international awards. His feature directorial debut, I Met A Girl, starring Brenton Thwaites and Lily Sullivan, premiered at Busan and was released as a Netflix Original in Australia. He followed it with the Australian-Spanish feature UnCANCELLED, filmed amid Valencia’s Fallas festival.

Working across Australia, Europe and the US, Luke is drawn to distinctive, emotionally honest stories with wit, momentum and a little beautiful disorder. He takes the work seriously. Himself, considerably less so.

Socratis OttoDirector
Director: Writer · Producer · Director

Socratis Otto

Socs Otto has discovered barnacles, arrested Alf Stewart, been shot, set alight, impaled and transitioned from male to female, all in the name of art.

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A chameleon in the truest sense, he moves between acting, writing, directing, producing and voice work with alarming ease. A fluent Greek speaker, Socs directed and associate produced Homespun, first as an online series and later reworked as a feature. It won Best Web Series at festivals in San Francisco and Paris, attracted ABC Commercial as distributor and was acquired by ABC, Stan and Apple, with international distribution through Anuvu.

He has helmed live and virtual productions of The Hope Song, a verbatim theatre project giving voice to people living with mental-health challenges, and was one of nine artists commissioned nationally by Critical Stages for Come to Where I Am. He is associate producer and lead in the satirical horror feature Forever Young.

At More Sauce, Socs is a company director, working across development, writing, producing and directing. Staying in one lane was never really the plan.

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