• DIRECTOR | WRITER | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Clare Hoey is a writer and director represented by Curtis Brown.

    She is currently co-writing MANE, a feature film with BBC Film and Public Dreams, and has written and is attached to direct her first feature with Screen Australia. Her debut short film Showpony screened at Academy®️ and BAFTA-qualifying festivals including London Short Film Festival and Flickerfest, and her second short, 2004 WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO, won best comedy at Australian Women's Film Festival, an Audience Award at Dublin International Film Festival, and will screen at SXSW London in June. Her third short, Queen Kong, is about to begin its festival circuit.

    She has developed TV and film projects across the UK, US, and Australia, including with Netflix, Channel 4, Audible, and NBC Universal.

  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | ACTOR

    Sophie Lowe can currently be seen in The Dive, starring opposite Louisa Krause, and in Medieval alongside Ben Foster and Michael Caine. She recently completed filming Posthumous, which she stars in, shot in Queensland and funded by Screen Australia.

    Sophie made her screen debut in the critically acclaimed Beautiful Kate, starring with Rachel Griffiths and Ben Mendelsohn, earning an AACTA nomination for Best Lead Actress.

    Her other screen credits include Blow the Man Down, Above Suspicion (opposite Emilia Clarke), The Beautiful Lie (with Sarah Snook), and The Slap, which received BAFTA and International Emmy nominations and won the AACTA Award for Most Outstanding Drama Series.

    In addition to her work as an actor, Sophie is also a singer-songwriter.

  • PRODUCER / ACTOR

    Valentina Novakovic has worked in the film & TV industry for thirteen years in varying roles. Her credits include Disney+’s WILLOW, Netflix’s THE SANDMAN; THE OLD GUARD; BRIDGERTON. When she first entered the industry as an actress at nineteen, she was able to learn the ropes whilst working in front of camera. She moved behind the scenes a few years later where she has been working ever since, assisting directors and producers. Valentina is a short film producer, whilst also working on high-profile film and television as an assistant to directors and producers. Her acting credits include and aren’t limited to Australia’s popular soap “Neighbours” and feature film “The Beekeeper”. Valentina is thrilled to be a part of the very special short film 2004 Was Twenty Years Ago as both a producer and an actress.

  • PRODUCER

    An English Literature & Film Studies graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, Los Angeles, Susie has been working in Scripted Development and Production for over 7 years in London, Wales, Los Angeles and Dublin.

    She has supported teams of physical production producers on high-end television shows such as WILLOW (Lucasfilm) and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (Amazon), alongside producing short film projects under the Supernova banner since 2023, and has worked in the development teams of Heyday Films and the Pacific Electric Picture Company as a script analyst.

    Most recently, Susie was the Production & Development Coordinator for Hangtime on THE NIGHT MANAGER Season 2 for BBC/Amazon, and produced short film FROM SIDNEY, WITH LOVE, Executive Produced by Spike Lee. She is currently Production and Development Executive in-house at Hangtime.