Geraldine Hakewill

Geraldine Hakewill is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and has worked extensively across stage, television and film as an actor. Most notably she stars as the titular role in Ms Fisher’s MODern Murder Mysteries for EveryCloud Productions/Channel 7, and opposite Rebecca Gibney in three seasons of the Channel 7/Matchbox drama Wanted which was nominated for an International Emmy Award. Geraldine was nominated for Most Outstanding Newcomer at the 2017 Logie Awards. She played Lady Macbeth opposite Jai Courtney in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2017 production of Macbeth directed by Simon Phillips. She will soon star in Wakefield for the ABC/Jungle.

As a producer she was executive producer/co-creator/performer of the dance film Shadow/Self in collaboration with designer Bianca Spender which won best fashion film at the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2015. She was the associate producer and lead actor of the short film Young Labor, directed by Leon Ford which premiered at Flickerfest in 2017, and she recently produced a music video for multi-ARIA award winning band Boy & Bear.

Geraldine also produced a music video for her original song ‘Fire’ from her debut EP You’ve Never Seen this Smile which was released in 2018. Two songs from this EP were featured on the soundtrack of Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt), and her song ‘Healing’ was featured on the soundtrack of Wanted Season 3.

Monica Zanetti

Monica Zanetti is an award winning Australian screenwriter and director. Her debut feature film Skin Deep screened at over eight international film festivals and was honoured at Austin Film Festival with an award for Best Narrative Feature. The film also earned Monica an AWGIE nomination for Best Original Screenplay, a spot on the 25 Screenwriters To Watch list by US MovieMaker Magazine, and was released internationally in 2016.

Monica worked in various story rooms before joining the writing team for the Channel 10/Netflix series Sisters. She was a writer/producer on the ABC Comedy series Tonightly with Tom Ballard, and wrote an episode for the CJZ series My Life is Murder.

She has written a number of short films, including Young Labor, which premiered at Flickerfest and which she also associate produced. Her comedy web-series White Girl Wellness Warrior premiered on Tonightly with Tom Ballard for ABC Comedy in 2018. She wrote the radio drama Last Drinks for ABC Radio National in 2020.

Monica’s second feature film, Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt), starring Marta Dusseldorp and Rachel House, was the first Australian film to ever open the Sydney Mardi Gras film festival and will be released in 2021. It received the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival and was selected for BFI Flare 2020 as well as MIFF 2020.