From bookworm to Hollywood powerbroker: Aussie’s billion-dollar deal takes star turn

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Australian Sarah Harden is still pinching herself after selling the production company she co-founded with Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon to US private equity giant Blackstone. | carawaters

Blackstone deal anointing Witherspoon and Harding as major Hollywood players.

After stints at News Corp and Fox, Harden was working at video streaming company Otter Media when she first met Witherspoon, who had already started her involvement in production with the movies“We started the company together,” Harden says. “She put in capital, and I was running this venture Otter Media, and we put in some capital, and we started building it and one thing led to another, the timing just worked out really well.

Harden says the male-dominated entertainment sector had ignored stories of women and minority groups for too long. “It’s not good enough, we’ve had decades of lost stories of women and you’ve had women, people of colour, and filmmakers, directors and creators just structurally excluded from Hollywood,” she says. “As you change the story, you attract audiences who see a wider range of experiences reflected on screen. It not only feels good, but it’s a great business strategy as well.

Australian director Kate Riedl has known Harden since they were both 18 and says she “devours” books and has flown under the radar in Australia after living in the United States for so long. The pair have grown Hello Sunshine to a staff of 70 people and Harden is proud of the culture they have created where the mother of three says there are “really direct conversations” about work-life balance.

 

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