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Rebecca is a storyteller, filmmaker and adventurer at heart. She lives for exceptional stories that make us think again – like her critically acclaimed series Back to Nature (Co-produced 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 award-winning content 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.

Filmmaker Projects

Mozarts Sister Poster Landscape 2025 09 18

Madeleine Hetherton- Miau

What is the lost story of the 'other Mozart'?

TROU Office 1

Jared Nicholson

A massacre survivor and a filmmaker form an unlikely bond, in a desperate search for solace, closure & truth

the day we saved the zoo

Madeleine Hetherton-Miau

When fires threaten Mogo Zoo, the keepers must put their lives on the line to save the animals they love.

Rebecca Barry

A documentary VR experience that brings to life forgotten, nasty women from history.

The Surgery Ship

Completed film

Madeleine Hetherton-Miau

1 Ship. Thousands of people with life threatening illness. A team of medics facing life and death decisions.

Saving Tuvalu 1 2

Kate Blackmore / Amelia Tovey / Kato Ewekia

As Tuvalu sinks beneath rising seas, young people begin transferring their land and culture online - but can a digital nation save what the ocean will erase?

Rebecca Barry

Imagine a world where normalised sexual violence is eradicated.

Harriet Spark

A filmmaker forms an unexpected bond with two marine biologists racing to save a critically endangered seahorse species, in one of the world’s busiest harbours, as they navigate the challenges of fatherhood.

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Olivia Martin McGuire

Rebuilding their relationship, a filmmaker and her trans sibling embark on a journey to uncover why estrangement is a silent epidemic, discovering hope and unity in LGBTQI+ global communities reimagining kinship beyond bloodlines.

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