Harriet is the director of TVF International, the independent factual distributor based in London. Representing some of the most innovative and creative producers from across the globe, the TVF catalogue encompasses everything from factual, entertainment and lifestyle series to exceptional one-off documentaries. Harriet joined the company as an Arabic language specialist in 2012 and began leading TVF’s sales division two years later. In 2017 she took on the leadership position at TVF International where she now oversees sales, marketing and acquisitions of the more than 4,500 hour catalogue of programming.

Director Larissa Behrendt is an award-winning filmmaker, novelist and writer with a passion for telling the stories of Indigenous Australia. Appointed Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, she has a legal background and is an experienced researcher. She also won the Australian Directors Guild Award for her documentary After the Apology in 2017. Larissa wrote and directed the Walkley-nominated documentary, Innocence Betrayed that aired on NITV in 2014. Her short film, Under Skin, In Blood (2015) screened at Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Larissa’s short film Clan won Best Documentary at both the Canberra Short Film Festival and the Shorts Film Festival in Adelaide in 2015. Her short film, Barbara, was been nominated for an AACTA award and a Dendy Award in 2018. She wrote and Directed Rosemary Valadon: A Sensual World (2017) for ABC Arts. Most recently, she wrote and directed Maralinga Tjarutja which aired on the ABC in 2020.

Darren has been a company director of Blackfella Films, Australia’s premier Indigenous production company, since 2000. In 2008 Darren, together with business partner Rachel Perkins, produced the landmark multi-platform history series First Australians, broadcast on SBS to over 2.3 million viewers. For the second consecutive year, he was the recipient of a United Nations Media Peace Award for the 2010 SBS documentary Lani’s Story. Among Darren’s many award-winning and highly acclaimed productions are the feature documentary The Tall Man (2011) for SBS; the telemovie Mabo (2012), which Darren produced with Miranda Dear for the ABC; and two seasons of the documentary series Filthy Rich & Homeless. Darren has just completed the third season of Filthy Rich & Homeless and is also producing the historical documentary series First Wars for SBS. For the ABC Darren’s has produced, with Jacob Hickey, the feature documentary Maralinga Tjarutja. He is also producing a series adaptation of Bruce Pascoe’s acclaimed book Dark Emu. Darren currently serves on the board of ACMI and the Sydney Film Festival. He was the recipient of the prestigious AFTRS Honorary Degree in 2012.

With a background working in sales and marketing at Film Australia, as Content Sales Manager at SBS and through running her own consultancy business, Fiona has nearly 30 years’ experience working with independent producers to maximise commercial opportunities for their content and explore new business models. In 2011 Fiona assisted in establishing Flame Distribution, the specialist factual and documentary distribution arm of Flame Media, an international production business with production arms in the UK and Germany. Now with a catalogue of over 3,500 hours of content from around 180 producers worldwide, Flame has sales teams in London, New York, Eastern Europe, Singapore and Sydney who regularly maintain contact with buyers through market attendance and territory trips.

Danny’s role at Channel 4 sees him take responsibility for documentaries, where he works across History, Science, Natural History, Arts and Adventure, alongside the network’s Head of Specialist. Before heading up the Factual team at Channel 4, Danny worked for the BBC as the Commissioning Editor for Documentaries. His award-winning commissions include Hospital, Louis Theroux’s Dark States, Ambulance, and Generation Gifted, as well as numerous other factual projects that screened on BBC One, Two and Three.

For over 20 years Richard has worked on an extensive range of factual and entertainment programmes for the Australian, UK and Asian TV markets. Many of the series he has been associated with have won or have been nominated for major industry awards including Logie, AACTA, Rose D’Or, BAFTA and International Emmy. Richard joined the ABC in 2012 and executive produced numerous primetime and digital shows including Gruen, Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery, Lukewarm Sex, #7DaysLater, Everyone’s A Critic, Growing Up Gracefully, Dream Gardens, How Australia Found It’s Mojo, Short Cuts To Glory, Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am and The Recording Studio. In 2019 he became the Manager of Development for Factual, Entertainment and Partnerships where he was responsible for developing stronger creative ties with the Australian production sector to ensure that the best possible content outcomes were achieved across all ABC platforms. More recently Richard has taken up the role of Managing Editor of Factual.

Gary works at the intersection of arts, culture and community. He is currently the Outreach Manager at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where he works to cultivate emerging and diverse screen creatives. Gary has previously worked in Australia on community arts and development projects, with organisations including ICE, Fairfield City Council, Penrith City Council, Parramasala and Diversity Arts Australia. Gary worked in Sri Lanka supporting a number of local informal community groups and established NGOs, which included securing funding to establish queer networks in regional areas of the country incorporating former war zones. In 2019 Gary curated and produced four storytelling nights in Sydney, from which a number of articles were developed and published on SBS. Gary holds a Masters in International Communications.

Debra is the immediate past CEO of Ausfilm. She has over 30 years communications, media & screen industry experience. Previously she spent 12 years as CEO of the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association, over 13 years at Australia’s broadcasting regulator and most recently almost nine years as CEO of Ausfilm, where she attracted major production and post-production work to Australia. Debra has been involved in most screen content policy and production industry issues in Australia during her working life as regulator, stakeholder and advocate covering local content, sports rights, copyright, digital conversion and disruption. She is also an adjunct professor for Boston University (Film and Media in Australia). Debra is a Director of the Communications and Media Law Association Board; a director of the International Institute of Communications, Australia; Deputy Chair of the Advertising Beverage Advertising Code adjudication panel; a director of Northcott; and a professional member of AACTA. Debra joined Netflix in September 2019 as Director of Production Policy for the APAC region.