Charlotte Seymour is director of Seymour Films and Producer for Film Art Media with over 20 years of screen industry experience. Recently she was Executive Producer on the Indigenous short drama Elders that was in competition at the 2020 Berlinale and produced the online TV drama-comedy series Other People’s Problems for ABC iview – Other People’s Problems premiered at the inaugural Australian, Series Mania Festival and was invited to screen at the Berlin Film Festival 2018. With Sue Maslin they have optioned the best selling novel by Heather Rose Bruny in series development with acclaimed writer Suzie Miller. With Executive Producer Sue Maslin she is developing the feature Language of Birds with writer/director Erica Glynn, and producing with Sue Maslin the feature film The Little Qipao Shop by Clara Law & Eddie Fong. With Ben Pederick and Daniel King she is Executive Producing the documentary Her Name is Nanny Nellie for NITV. Her television documentary Harry Seidler – Modernist screened on ABC TV in 2016. Previous credits include award winning documentaries Remembering Country for SBS and A walk with Words for ABC and her short feature/telemovie Queen of Hearts, 2004 was AFI winner for best short screen play.
As an Executive Producer at ABC TV 2005 – 2006, she was responsible for producing over 50 hours of television arts programming and commissioning arts documentaries. Seymour Films recognises the cultural and commercial importance of gender equality, diversity and inclusion in screen content and aims to tell relevant stories that matter to audiences today.
Charlotte holds a Fine Arts degree from ANU, a Masters in Producing from AFTRS, where she was the winner of the Kenneth Myer Fellowship for Producing, the David Heidtman Pitching Prize as well as the Kodak short drama prize.