Philippa Bateman (Australia)
Founder & Producer
Enigma Machine

Philippa Bateman is a writer/director/producer who works across documentary, feature film, television drama and screen-based media arts.

She is the founder of Enigma Machine, which produced Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow (2022), in association with the Shark Island Institute; The Beehive (2018), a non-linear documentary about murdered activist Juanita Nielsen and Starry Night, artist Brad Miller’s large scale installation for Vivid (2014).

A recipient of the 2019 Documentary Australia Foundation and Create NSW She-Doc Fellowship, Philippa was embedded at Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions in New York and while in the US, she wrote the US based feature documentaries American Hunter and Crash.

At her former company, April Films, Philippa produced Jindabyne, directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne. The film was selected for Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2006 and sold to Sony Classics. April Films won SPAA Independent Producer’s Award (2006). Philippa worked as a senior Creative Executive in the development, production and acquisition of independent feature films for 25 years in Australia, the US and UK. As a creative producer, she has had First Look producer deals with two US studios – Universal and United Artists, for which she also consulted on acquisitions.