Rebecca O’Brien is an award-winning filmmaker, a graduate of AFTRS, an AACTA and ADG nominee and a recipient of Screen Australia’s talent escalator program.  As a teen growing up in Christchurch, New Zealand, Rebecca bought a video camera and started documenting her world. Keen to pursue her passion for storytelling she ventured to Australia to study at AFTRS. Now, her successful career to date includes working for Roadshow Rough Diamond, Aquarius Films, ABC TV, NITV, Southern Star, and NBC Universal creating a wide variety of scripted and unscripted projects. These include the award-winning, Screen NSW-funded short film, The Great Dark, producing the historic 50th-anniversary episodes of Play School, as well as shadowing director Michael Rymer on the Emmy-award winning drama Battlestar Galactica (SyFy) in Vancouver. It proved to be a transformative experience and upon her return, Rebecca seized the film rights to Craig Silvey's acclaimed book, Jasper Jones, which she executive produced. More recently Rebecca’s short film, The Gathering, was granted funding by Screen NSW and Epic Games as part of the Unreal Engine short film fund. In 2019, Rebecca became the recipient of the ADG shadow directing program where she directed her first episode of television drama for Aquarius Films / Netflix production, The Unlisted (2019) earning her a nomination for the 2020 ADG Awards for Best Direction. On the back of this success, she was offered to opportunity to work with renowned Producers John Edward, Claudia Karvan and Kelsey Munro on season 3 of the acclaimed Stan original BUMP and has just finished directing three episodes of season four. Her goal is to keep work as a drama director, both here in Australia and Internationally.