Governance

Tracey is the Chief Content Officer for Emmy® and BAFTA Award winning film and television production company Hoodlum operating globally between Australia, the US and the UK.

Vieira joined Hoodlum in September 2019 after five years as CEO of Screen Queensland and works across Hoodlum’s full development and market slates.

Since joining Hoodlum, Vieira has worked on expanding Hoodlum’s global slate across scripted and unscripted television and feature film with productions currently in development with partners including ABC Signature, Fox, Peacock, Stan, Netflix, CBS International and A&E amongst others.

Suzanne is the Founder, CEO and Executive Producer of SLR Productions, a company she established in 2000 to follow her passion and love of screen content. With more than 30 years experience in the media business, Suzanne has created, produced and invested in hundreds of hours of award winning content which has been exported to 160 countries worldwide. Suzanne is an Emmy Award winning producer, Winner of the Premier’s NSW Export Awards in Creative Industries, a twice recipient of Screen Producers Australia – Children’s Producer of the Year, and Winner B&T Women in Media Producer of the Year as well as many other awards that acknowledge and celebrate her achievements as a Business Owner, Executive Producer and Producer. Suzanne has held two council positions at the Screen Producers Australia, including her current position as Advisor to Council, and has championed the ARTS and the children’s screen sector for decades.

Greg is the CEO of Fremantle Australia, a world leader in creating, producing and distributing content.

Greg joined Fremantle in 2007 which led him to gain experience and expertise across multiple disciplines and territories within the group. From 2015-2021 he was Chief Financial Officer of the organisation and in 2022 Greg was appointed Fremantle’s CEO for Australia. He assumes full responsibility for the company’s overall management and business performance including leading the financing, development and production of programming across a wide range of genres. Throughout his tenure at Fremantle Greg has played an integral role in top-rating and iconic programs such as Neighbours, Wentworth, Heartbreak High, Grand Designs as well as the Fremantle unscripted catalogue programs.

Greg began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he progressed to becoming an audit manager consulting with a variety of clients in the media and entertainment industries. He is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and has a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Marketing and Accounting from the University of Technology Sydney.

Lisa Scott is one of Australia’s leading producers and founder of Highview Productions. Her latest production Speedway screened at the 2023 Adelaide Film Festival, along with the short film Blame The Rabbit which premiered on opening night and shared the audience award for Best Short Film. Her recent drama series The Tourist premiered on BBC1 & Stan in early 2022 to critical acclaim and was produced in conjunction with the Emmy winning UK producers, Two Brothers Pictures (Fleabag), winning three Awards including Best Mini Series at the 2022 Golden Nymph Awards. The Tourist debuted on Netflix in the US earlier this year and reached number one after three weeks on the platform. She also produced A Sunburnt Christmas, in association with Every Cloud Productions, which premiered on Stan in December 2020, and was nominated in the 2021 AACTA Awards and the 2021 Screen Producers Australia Awards for Best TV Mini Series or Telefeature.

Aaron Fa’Aoso first came to prominence in 2004 with his performance as ‘Eddie’ in the critically acclaimed SBS mini-series, R.A.N., for which he received nominations for an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama and a LOGIE Award for Most Outstanding New Talent.

Following on from that success, Aaron joined the multi award winning SBS series East West 101 which recently had its third season go to air. Aaron received a 2011 Monte Carlo TV Festival award nomination for Most Outstanding Actor for his work in the series. In 2012 he was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the show was awarded Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Television Drama Series at the Equity Awards.

His other television credits include City Homicide and Sea Patrol. He has most recently appeared in Screentime’s Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms on Network Ten. In 2009, he made his feature film debut in Sue Brooks’ Subdivision. In 2012, Aaron Associate Produced and starred opposite UK actor Brian Cox in the ABC crime drama, The Straits. The series is based on his original idea and Produced by Matchbox Pictures. The Straits is currently being developed for US television by Hell on Wheels creators Tony Gayton and Joe Gayton with NBC Universal, Working Title and Universal TV.

Aaron has also been active behind the camera writing and directing the short film, Sharp Eye, as part of the SBS Television series Bit of Black Business.

Aaron was one of the devisors and performers in the Urban Theatre Project’s highly successful play, Back Home, which sold out at the 2006 Sydney Festival and toured to Toronto, Canada the following year. He also featured in Queensland’s Koeemba Jdarra Performing Arts Company productions of Howie the Rookie and Njunjal the Sun.

Aaron is a four time Deadly Award nominee for Male Actor of the Year for his performances in R.A.N. and East West 101.

Nick is the MD and co-founder of CJZ. He has a unique and very broad background in TV – as a producer and network executive at both cable and free-to air networks. His credits span comedy, light entertainment, drama and factual production as Producer and Executive Producer. Nick is known as Mr Fix-It in the office as he is quite handy with the tools. Mr Murray also looks after the office fish tank.

Jill has worked for Entertainment Partners, formally Moneypenny Services, since 1989. Starting out as an accounts assistant she then worked her way up to be the production accountant/financial controller on films such as Muriel’s Wedding, Paradise Road, Oscar and Lucinda and Moulin Rouge.

Mitch is a Wiradjuri producer who started his producing career with ABC3 Kid’s show, Move It Mob Style, then four series of Colour Theory with Richard Bell and Tony Albert. He wrote and produced Servant or Slave, produced Warwick Thornton’s documentary television series, The Beach, and produced the first Indigenous official co production between Australia and New Zealand, We Are Still Here, which opened the Sydney Film Festival, was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win the Best Narrative Feature film at ImagineNative Film Festival.

Mitch recently produced societal thriller and psychological horror The Moogai with Director Jon Bell and Causeway Films (The Babadook, Talk To Me) and was officially selected for competition in the Midnight Section of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival for 2024, and won the audience award for Best Australian Feature at the Sydney Film Festival in 2024.

Edwina is Head of Production for Roadshow Films, one of Australia’s leading independent film distributors; producing and distributing acclaimed film and television releases in Australia and New Zealand for over fifty years. Partners include Warner Bros., HBO, Lionsgate, FilmNation, ITV, Fremantle Media, and more.

Roadshow is at the forefront of Australian filmmaking, fostering new talent and bringing the local industry roaring onto the global stage. Passionate supporters of Australian cinema, Roadshow has released record-breaking cinematic classics such as Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Muriel's Wedding, The Castle, Mao’s Last Dancer, Happy Feet, and Red Dog, as well as more recent box office successes; Oddball, Paper Planes, Penguin Bloom, and The Dry.

Roadshow Films is a wholly owned subsidiary of Village Roadshow Pty Ltd, a leading international entertainment company with core businesses in Theme Parks, Cinema Exhibition and Film Distribution.

Tracey is a proud hard of hearing woman with a passion for film, advocacy and inclusion. As CEO of Bus Stop Films she is advocating for greater representation of people with disability in the screen industry, receiving an OAM in 2023 for service to the arts and to people with disability. Her 25-year career has crossed social housing, women’s domestic violence services, including 6 years as the State Manager of Women’s Domestic Violence Court Assistance Program and the film and television industry, working with a number of industry services including Screen NSW, Event Cinemas and Women in Film and TV (WIFT) NSW.

Catherine is Head of Scripted & Kids at Northern Pictures and has over 25 years’ experience in the media space in a wide range of roles including channel management, distribution and as an executive producer. Since joining the Northern Pictures team in 2014, she has had a slate of over 600 episodes commissioned in Australia and internationally for Channel Seven, Network Nine, the ABC, Nat Geo Kids and now Paramount+. Most recently, Catherine has executive produced the Emmy Award-winning series Hardball and new series Spreadsheet, starring Katherine Parkinson, for Paramount+.

Catherine was previously General Manager, SVP, for Nickelodeon Asia where she oversaw distribution, production, programming and marketing. Before moving to Asia, Catherine was the Managing Director for Nickelodeon Australia where she was responsible for launching Nick Jnr., as well as delivering the #1 Channel and online portal for kids.

Kylie is BBC Studios ANZ’s General Manager and Creative Director of Production, responsible for exploiting BBC Studios’ extensive format catalogue and driving the creation of new intellectual property in the Australian market.

Her local slate includes Mastermind and Celebrity Mastermind for SBS, Weakest Link for Nine, The Great Australian Bake Off for Foxtel, Dancing With The Stars for Ten and Dancing With the Stars: All Stars for Seven.

Kylie has a wealth of experience adapting international formats for the Australian and Asian markets, as well as developing and overseeing formatted factual entertainment. Her previous roles include Director of Unscripted at Matchbox Pictures where she delivered a slate of titles including Real Housewives of Melbourne and Sydney, Room 101, original format Formal Wars and original entertainment series Everyone’s A Critic, as well as setting up the Matchbox Asia business which delivered content across all of NBCU’s Channels within Asia. Prior to that, Kylie was a series producer and development producer for Active TV, working across a broad range of genres where her credits included Prank Patrol, The Amazing Race Australia and The Amazing Race Asia.

Rebecca is a storyteller, filmmaker, co-founder of Media Stockade and an adventurer at heart. She lives for exceptional stories that make us think again – like our award-winning series Back to Nature (co-production with Threshold Pictures). In drama or documentary, as director or producer, her collaborative artistry reveals worlds known and unknown. In 2012 she founded Media Stockade with Madeleine Hetherton-Miau.

She has created critically acclaimed shows for National Geographic, ABC, SBS, Network 10, Netflix, Hulu, BBC, Al Jazeera, and more. Her work screens at film festivals globally, including IDFA, HotDocs, FIFO, Sydney Film Festival, and Melbourne International Film Festival. Rebecca is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research explored the dark grey zone of power and ethics in documentary consent processes. She is a certified Mental Health First Aider.