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Ainslie’s independent series, 600 BOTTLES OF WINE which she directed and script edited, had its world premiere on BBC Three. The series also screened on BBC iPlayer, Netflix (Aus), ABC iView, YLE (Finland), iTunes (UK & Aus), Google Play, (UK & Aus), YLE (Finland), Sea Movies (cruise ships), the series screened on BBC Three, 10 Peach, 10 Play, Virgin Australia In-Flight Entertainment, TVNZ OnDemand and CBC (Canada).

Currently, Ainslie has several projects in development, including a half-hour comedy REBOOT in development with Photoplay Films, crime/comedy BEARCAT, co-created with Claire Phillips.  Ainslie most recently directed THE FIVE MINUTE CALL, a short form series co-produced by Arena Media and Cockatoo Co-Lab, and is directing short form series BOTTLE-O.

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In theatre, Alberto is the co-director of award-winning performance company Stage Mom, which produced his plays TRULY MADLY BRITNEY and LOVE YOU BITCH. TRULY MADLY BRITNEY was presented in Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cyber Electric season and is currently taught on the syllabus of La Trobe University’s performance writing course. Further, Alberto co-created the live art works I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M COOKING FOR, which toured nationally, and LOVE ME (BAR)TENDER, commissioned by Darwin Festival and remounted at Arts House, Melbourne.

Finally, Alberto has been the recipient of project funding from Creative Victoria, The City of Melbourne and Midsumma Festival, and previously undertook a Besen Family Writers Placement at Malthouse Theatre.

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Her short film, AYAAN was longlisted for an Academy Award® and screened worldwide, winning 30+ awards including an Australian Directors Guild Award, Best International Short at Show Me Shorts Festival (NZ), Best Short Fiction and Best Tertiary Fiction at the ATOM Awards and Best Short Film at CinefestOZ amongst many others. AYAAN was also nominated for an AWGIE, a Dendy Award at Sydney Film Festival and the Grand Prix at Tampere International Film Festival. Her second short, MYTH was selected for the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival, garnered Alies a 2023 Australian Directors Guild Award nomination for Best Direction in a Short Film, and won the Rebel 8 Outstanding Emerging Female Director Award at the 2023 Flickerfest International Short Film Festival.

Prior to becoming a director, Alies worked as a violinist and AACTA nominated film and TV composer, performing in over 55 countries with artists including Nitin Sawhney, Sylvie Guillem, Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Antony Gormley. She also musically directed Laurence Olivier Award and Time Out Critics Award (UK) nominated productions. She holds an MFA (with honours) from Columbia University, where she studied on a full scholarship and was awarded the university’s top screenwriting prize – the Ezra Litwak Award, as well as the School of the Arts Arthur J. Memorial Prize and a Screenwriting Fellowship.

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In 2022, Amy was a participant in Netflix GrowCreative’s The Writer’s Journey Lab. Her talent was also recognised by Belvoir Theatre’s Shutdown Residencies program in 2020, which awarded her development funding for her play YOLO. She similarly received $30,000 in development funding in 2019 after being named the inaugural winner of Screen Australia’s Pitcher Perfect competition with her dystopian comedy series RETURN TO SENDER.

Finally, adding to her list of achievements, Amy was named as a recipient of Screen Australia’s Developing the Developer funding through which she undertook a placement with Matchbox Pictures in 2018. Her upcoming projects include two original series with Northern Pictures, as well as the children’s series CAPER CREW (Easy Tiger), and DANCE SPIES (Northern Pictures/ Netflix). As a Eurasian woman living with a neurological disability, Amy is passionate about creating and contributing to stories that represent Australia’s diversity in a meaningful and authentic way.

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As a theatre director, Andrew made his debut in 2006 with his translation of DISSIDENT, GOES WITHOUT SAYING for Wharf2Loud, and later that same year went on to direct David Mamet’s REUNION. His co-written production THE MAIDS premiered at the STC in 2013 and was performed as part of the Lincoln Centre Festival at the New York City Centre in 2014. Andrew directed A LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT starring William Hurt in a co-production between the STC and Artists Repertory Theatre. His other work for the STC includes his adaptations of DON JUAN, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, UNCLE VANYA, WAITING FOR GODOT, A FLEA IN HER EAR, CHILDREN OF THE SUN, THE WHITE GUARD, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, WAITING FOR GODOT, ENDGAME, HEDDA GABLER, his co-adaptation FACE TO FACE, and his original plays HANGING MAN and RIFLEMIND, many of which he also directed.

Andrew has also written for the screen, including the short film REUNION as part of the compendium feature adaptation of Tim Winton’s THE TURNING. For Working Title Films, he co-wrote the feature GONE. He also adapted FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM, AMONGST THIEVES and DUPLICATE KEYS. Under his production company banner, Dirty Films, Andrew wrote, directed and produced the short film BANGERS, the feature STORIES OF LOST SOULS, and additionally served as associate producer for the award-winning LITTLE FISH. In 2015, he Executive Produced the critically acclaimed film CAROL, and in 2023, produced the feature FINGERNAILS, starring Carey Mulligan.

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Previously, Anna wrote CONTENT, Australia’s first vertical video series for Ludo Studios and ABC TV, garnering an Australian Writers’ Guild (AWGIE) Award win for Best Web Series and nominations for several other awards, including an International Emmy for Best Short-Form, a Rose D’Or for Best Social Media and Video Series, and an AACTA for Best Online Drama or Comedy. In 2017, she won an AWGIE for the geolocative story app GHOSTS OF BILEOLA.

For television, Anna is further credited with serving as a contributing writer on the second season of the children’s show THE STRANGE CHORES (Ludo/ABC), and as head writer and co-producer of the comedy series RETROGRADE (ABC), which was filmed in isolation and follows a group of thirty-something friends during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a playwright, Anna’s work has been performed around Australia. Her play LETHAL INDIFFERENCE opened at the Sydney Theatre Company in February 2018 and was subsequently highly commended by Victoria Premier’s Literary Awards. Likewise, her writing has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Killings, The Lifted Brow and The Age. Anna’s novel GIRL! THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BEING YOU (Penguin 2012) was named as one of the 2013 Eva Pownall Notable Books by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.

In 2007, she was the winner of the British Council’s Realise Your Dream award, facilitating her to study playwriting at Royal Court Theatre, London, UK. In 2012, she collaborated with comic artist Sara Drake (USA) to tell the story of losing her sense of smell for Radio, with Pictures at the Sydney Opera House. She won Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwright’s Award in 2013 for her play, MINUSONESISTER, ultimately published by Currency Press in 2017.

Currently, Anna has a number of television series in development, including projects with See Saw Films, BBC Studios ANZ and Wooden Horse.

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From 2015 – 2017 Anthony was a Development Executive for Matchbox Pictures where he developed and script edited Safe Harbour, winner of the 2019 International Emmy for Best Mini-Series. He then went on to script produce the fourth season of Nowhere Boys (for ABC and Matchbox Pictures) and the first season of Five Bedrooms (for Channel 10 and Hoodlum).

Anthony was the creative director of Hoodlum on several award-winning interactive projects for high-end film and television productions; including Lost, Spooks, Primeval, Salt and The Bourne Legacy. These interactive projects earned him numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy, an International Digital Emmy, two BAFTAs and five AWG awards (including the prestigious John Hinde Award for Science Fiction).

In 2012, Anthony was a nominee for the Queensland Literary award for Best Television Script for his writing on popular comedy The Strange Calls. Anthony’s 2011 television documentary, The Curse of the Gothic Symphony, won the AWG Award for Best Broadcast Documentary. Anthony’s short films and documentaries have competed in some of the world’s most prestigious international film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and South by SouthWest.

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The Wall Street Journal describes The Kiss as ‘a stand out short film’ and Shorts of the Week write ‘this film is a revelation…superior in almost every regard… 10/10’. Ashlee’s previous credits include writer and director of the award-winning comedy Layover, a self-funded short film that sold to cable TV in the US and screened widely both nationally and internationally.

Ashlee wrote and directed the On Her Knees chapter of the film compendium The Turning, adapted from the novel of interconnected short stories by Tim Winton, which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival followed by a gala screening at Berlinale.

Ashlee is in development on several feature films. For a full CV please contact info@rgm.com.au.

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Belinda wrote on THE SURVIVORS (Tony Ayres Productions/Netflix), based on best-selling author Jane Harper’s novel. In 2025, the series reached #2 on the Netflix global streaming charts, ranked in the Top 10 in 85 countries, #1 in five countries and Top Five in territories including USA, UK, Canada and Australia.

Belinda was the co-creator and showrunner on the series FIRES (Tony Ayres Productions/ABC), which won an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award for Best Miniseries and a TV Week Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Miniseries.

Belinda was also the co-creator and showrunner on SAFE HARBOUR (Matchbox Pictures), which received an International Emmy for Best Television Series, an AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television, and a Silver Bird Prize at the Seoul International Drama Awards.

Her other writing credits for television include PROSPER (Lingo Pictures/Stan); OLD SCHOOL (Matchbox Pictures); NEWTON’S LAW (Every Cloud Productions); MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES (Every Cloud Productions); FIGHTING SEASON (Goalpost Pictures); SECRET CITY (Matchbox Pictures/Netflix); BARRACUDA (ABC), for which she received an Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) Award; and STATELESS (Matchbox Pictures/ABC/Netflix).

STATELESS, starring Cate Blanchett and Dominic West, received AWGIE nomination for Best Series, a C21 Media Award Nomination for Best International Miniseries, and a Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Award for Best TV Miniseries.

Belinda wrote and directed the feature LOU (2010), starring John Hurt, which screened in competition at Busan, Rome, and Palm Springs. LOU won the Audience Award for Best Feature at Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, and the Grand Jury Prize at St Tropez Film Festival. Her debut feature, CITY LOOP (2000), premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.

Belinda has also made a number of award-winning short films.

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Benjamin is the co-creator and writer of the series WELLMANIA (Netflix). Benjamin’s poignant, familial comedy play, TORCH THE PLACE (2020), premiered at the Melbourne Theatre Company to great critical success.

Benjamin’s recent credits include NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN (SBS), which portrays the Australian Gold Rush through the perspective of Chinese miners, and received an Australian Writer’s Guild (AWGIE) Award for Miniseries or Telemovie.

His other television credits include SISTERS (EndemolShine/Network Ten) and the two-part documentary WALTZING THE DRAGON (ABC), which considers the ‘sweet and sour’ China-Australia relationship. Benjamin developed and presented the documentary alongside his larger-than-life mother.

His first book THE FAMILY LAW (2010), was adapted for television by Benjamin, who was a creator and co-writer on the show. The first season of THE FAMILY LAW (Matchbox) was the most-watched program on SBS in 2016. THE FAMILY LAW returned for two further seasons, winning two Equity Ensemble Awards for Best Comedy Ensemble and a Screen Producers Association (SPA) Award for Best Comedy.

Benjamin was an Associate Producer on the documentary DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY (2016), which details the gay hate crime epidemic that bloodied Sydney’s coastline in the 80s and 90s. It was a companion piece to the dramatized series DEEP WATER (Blackfella Films), starring Yael Stone and Noah Taylor.

Benjamin holds a PhD in television writing and cultural studies. He is a celebrated author, having written THE FAMILY LAW and GAYSIA: ADVENTURES IN THE QUEER EAST (2012), both of which were nominated for Australian Book Industry Awards. Benjamin also co-authored SHIT ASIAN MOTHERS SAY (2014) with his sister Michelle Law.

He is a frequent contributor to Good Weekend, frankie and The Monthly. He has written for more than 50 publications, with the notable “Moral Panic 101” published in the Quarterly Essay.

Benjamin has a number of feature and television projects in development.

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Boyd’s debut feature, WINDCATCHER (2024), was nominated for Best Original Film at the Australian Writer’s Guild (AWGIE) Awards. The film marked Stan’s first co-commission with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) since their partnership in 2021. WINDCATCHER won Best Film at the Children Cinema Awards, and was nominated for Best Children’s Live-Action at BANFF, as well as Children’s Production of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards.

Boyd was a writer on the murder-mystery BLACK SNOW (Goalpost/Stan), which was nominated for Best Drama Series at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards. Boyd also wrote on the second series of TROPPO (ABC), and season four of the sketch comedy show BLACK COMEDY (ABC), which was nominated for Best Comedy Series at the AACTA Awards.

On the IF Rising Talent List for 2024, Boyd was named as one of the writers who would “shift and lead our industry into the future”.

Boyd has been shortlisted for the Monte Miller Award, and shortlisted twice for the David Unaipon Award at the Queensland Literary Awards. He was twice highly commended for the Black & Write Fellowship with the Queensland State Library and has had poetry published in the Australian Poetry Journal.

Boyd has several features in development, including a horror film and a comedy, based on his own eccentric extended family.

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