1:1 Pitches
Warren Clarke is the Head of Scripted Development at Fremantle Media Australia. Early in his career Warren helped develop TV projects including Foxtel’s award-winning political drama Secret City, The Seven Network’s Wanted, and Channel Nine’s Hyde and Seek. He went on to Co-create ACTAA nominated and critically acclaimed ABC series THE HEIGHTS on which he served as Showrunner for two seasons. Warren is also an AWGIE nominated screenwriter. He was the Script Producer for Oddlands, the ABC and Adelaide Festival collaboration with Back to Back Theatre, and wrote for the teen football series Mustangs FC.
1:1 PITCHES – WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Format: Episodic
We are looking for Scripted Television (Drama & Comedy)
We are not looking for features, unscripted projects, animation
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Virginia Whitwell is a highly experienced film practitioner and producer with over twenty years in the industry. She is the Head of Production for the newly formed Good Thing Productions after five years as Head of Production at Madman Production Company. She has co-produced and produced many scripted and factual projects including That Sugar Film, Save Your Legs!, A Month Of Sundays, All For One and soon to be released feature documentary 2040 directed by Damon Gameau. Hailing from the UK, she has worked on numerous productions all over the world. Her extensive production experience includes projects for Warner Bros, HBO, Lucasfilm, EON, 20th Century Fox and Universal. Virginia is currently producing The Australian Dream, an Australian-United Kingdom co-production with Passion Pictures directed by Dan Gordon and Below, a scripted feature film directed by Maziar Lahooti starring Anthony LaPaglia and Ryan Corr.
1:1 PITCHES – WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Format: Features, Episodic, Documentary, Branded Content
We like entertainment with big ideas inside it. Ideas that can translate internationally also welcome.
We are not looking for children’s entertainment or pure animation (though a doco with animation elements for instance wouldn’t be off-putting !).
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Tracey Robertson is the Chief Executive Officer of Hoodlum, an Emmy® and BAFTA Award winning Entertainment Company. As CEO, Tracey oversees Hoodlum Television, connecting with networks and studios to produce scripted content in Australia, the United States, and the UK.
Hoodlum is currently working with ABC Australia and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment to produce SHAKESPEARE NOW, a ten-part series updating the work of Shakespeare using all-female writers and directors. Also announced is feature film NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAIN based on the multi award-winning book from Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani who chronicled his harrowing experiences in the tome No Friend But The Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison.
Hoodlum is currently facilitating the second series of ABC Signature / Amazon series THE WILDS which is currently in production. Past projects include of Seasons 1 and 2 of SECRETS AND LIES, a 10-part series for ABC Network starring Juliette Lewis, based on Hoodlum’s Australian 6-part series and TIDELANDS, an 8-part series for Netflix. Robertson is a member of BAFTA, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). She was recently recognized as an outstanding alumnus and made an Adjunct Professor of Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology.
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Todd leads the commissioning and creative execution of the public broadcaster’s narrative and scripted comedy programs across multiple platforms. He has produced landmark television programs including the globally-lauded ABC series Please Like Me with Josh Thomas and the iconic Olympic comedy series The Dream with Roy & H.G. Other career highlights include reimagining Geoffrey Robertson’s Hypotheticals for Seven, rebooting Rove for Ten in 2007, and producing Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey for the ABC and the short-lived but fondly remembered Micallef Tonight for Nine. He has produced comedy, entertainment, sport, current affairs and documentary content for the ABC, Seven, Nine, Ten, Foxtel, Stan, Amazon Prime and Pivot, and prior to joining the ABC he was Creative Director at Guesswork Television.
1:1 PITCHES – WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Format: Episodic
Our number one aim is to find laugh-out-loud, half-hour comedy series of 6 – 8 episodes to appeal to the established audience of FTA viewers on Wednesday nights and to build the rapidly-growing streaming audience on iview.
Not looking for short form or web series, and not looking for “the Australian version of…” whatever is hot internationally right now. Be original, or have an original spin on a well-known genre.
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Tarni is executive producer of entertainment for the ABC, based in Melbourne. She has worked in the industry for many years across most genres and all Australian FTA networks. Entertainment, News, Current Affairs, Documentary, Comedy, Children’s, Factual and sport. An advocate for ‘not waiting for the doors to open” but finding “a window that might be ajar, ” she values creative and innovate approaches.
