Find out about Every Cloud Productions’ next production in the Northern Rivers at our next Screenworks’ Members-Only Networking Zoom Call.
Date: Friday 26th June 2020
Time: 4pm – 5.30pm AEST
Venue: Online (via Zoom).
This is a free Screenworks Members only event. Spaces are strictly limited
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Every Cloud Productions is planning to shoot a series in the Northern Rivers later this year, so the producers are coming along to our next Zoom networking call to talk to Screenworks’ members about the production and potential work opportunities.
Every few years since around 2008, Every Cloud Productions has been producing or shooting productions in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. The production company has provided hundreds of opportunities and jobs for screen practitioners in the Northern Rivers, helped launch many careers and brought many economic benefits to a wide range of businesses in the region.
We are excited that they have again chosen the Northern Rivers for their next production.
Join Screenworks on 26th June as we chat with Every Cloud Productions CEO and Co-Founder Fiona Eagger and Creative Director and Co-Founder Deb Cox. Fiona and Deb will be joined by freelance producer Fiona McConaghy and freelance line Producer Scott Hartley.
Every Cloud Productions’ Northern Rivers credits include East of Everything Series 1 (2008) and Series 2 (2009), Impact (2009), Gods of Wheat Street (2014), Deadlock (2016) and SeaChange (2019).
We’ll also be wanting to hear from our members about how they are going and provide opportunities to catch up.
SPEAKER BIOS:
FIONA EAGGER – CEO and Co-Founder, Every Cloud Productions
Fiona Eagger is an award-winning and highly experienced creative Producer and Executive Producer whose shows have travelled to a global audience. Fiona has been responsible for creating and producing some of Australia’s most iconic screen content and possesses a talent for balancing her role across creative, financing and production.
Fiona founded Every Cloud Productions in 2009 with Deb Cox with an aim to create and produce thought-provoking, entertaining content for both domestic and international audiences. Fiona went on to co-create and produce three series of the international award-winning period drama Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. She has also co-created, executive produced and produced Newton’s Law, executive produced Indigenous drama The Gods of Wheat Street, and the youth short-form series Deadlock which was given the AACTA Award for the Best Online Series in 2018. Fiona recently worked as Co-Creator and Executive Producer on Ms Fisher’s MODern Murder Mysteries for the Seven Network; as Executive Producer and Producer on the recently released feature film Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears; and worked as Executive Producer for the reboot of the much-loved series SeaChange for the Nine Network.
Fiona gained experience working with feature director Paul Cox and Crawford Productions before producing her first series for SBS television, Ark of Gondwana. She went on to produce two series of the award-winning animation The Web and her first television drama series credit as Producer was the 13-part ABC TV series Mercury, starring Geoffrey Rush. She then worked with CoxKnight co-producing the 13-part series CrashBurn. Her credits also include acclaimed telemovie The Society Murders, telemovie The Informant (for Screentime), the award-winning feature films Only the Brave and Mallboy, and series 1 & 2 of drama series East of Everything.
In 2016 Fiona was the joint-recipient of the Jill Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership, Achievement and Service to the Victorian Screen Industry.
In July 2017, as Every Cloud CEO, Fiona Eagger, was the recipient of Film Victoria’s Screen Business Ventures funding; and in the same year received the Film Victoria Natalie Miller Fellowship for Women in Leadership.
Fiona was the recipient of an esteemed Screen Business Export award at the 2017 Screen Producers Australia Awards, accepting the award on behalf of Every Cloud Productions.
In early 2018, Fiona became an honorary Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT and has taken a leading role promoting women in front and behind the camera throughout her career.
Fiona is an advocate for fostering diversity in all areas of production and to mentor the next generation of storytellers.
Deb Cox – Creative Producer and Co-Founder, Every Cloud Productions
With more than three decades experience in the Australian production industry, Deb Cox has been responsible for creating and producing some of Australia’s most iconic screen content, as a highly talented creator, writer, and creative producer. Deb possesses a rare talent for creating intelligent stories grounded in great writing, rich characters and high production values.
With an aim to create and produce thought-provoking, entertaining content for both domestic and international audiences, Deb joined forces with Producer and Executive Producer Fiona Eagger to form Every Cloud Productions in 2009. Deb has gone on to co-create, co-produce and head the writing team on three series of international, award-winning, period drama Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Deb has worked as Executive Producer and Story Producer on Indigenous drama The Gods of Wheat Street; as well as co-created Newton’s Law, and youth short-form series Deadlock, which was given the AACTA Award for the Best Online Series in 2018. Deb recently worked as Executive Producer and Co-Writer on Ms Fisher’s MODern Murder Mysteries for the Seven Network; as Executive Producer and Writer of the highly anticipated feature film Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears, and as Creator and Head Writer for the reboot of the much-loved series SeaChange for the Nine Network.
Deb’s career began in the1980s at Crawford Productions in Melbourne. Her early freelance career included a stint as Project Officer for the Australian Film Commission and as Head of Drama for Artist Services, where she developed a range of feature film and television projects, including the ABC miniseries Simone de Beauvoir’s Babies, feature film Dead Letter Office.
As part of CoxKnight Productions, with Andrew Knight, Deb developed three series of SeaChange for the ABC; the drama series CrashBurn and the children’s series Worst Best Friends.
In 2006 she wrote one of Australia’s first long-run online narratives PS Trixi for Hoodlum Entertainment in Brisbane, then co-created, co-wrote and co-produced two series of East of Everything.
In 2015 Deb was awarded the Byron Bay International Film Festival Award for Contribution to the Northern Rivers Film Industry.
In 2016 Deb was jointly-awarded the Jill Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership, Achievement and Service to the Victorian Screen Industry.
In July 2017 Deb was the joint-recipient of Film Victoria’s Screen Business Ventures funding, with Every Cloud Productions being named as one of eight companies to share in more than $2.7m to increase growth and output capacity, and showcase Australian talent to the world.
Deb, along with Fiona Eagger, was the joint recipient of an esteemed Screen Business Export award at the 2017 Screen Producers Australia Awards, receiving the award on behalf of Every Cloud Productions.
Deb has been a mentor under the Natalie Miller Fellowship Brilliant Careers program, has been a speaker and teacher on various programs for Northern Rivers Screenworks, the Byron Writer’s Festival and Victorian College of the Arts. She has been a judge for the Byron Bay Short Film Festival and her original works have been nominated and won numerous awards over the last three decades.
Fiona McConaghy – Freelance Producer
Fiona has over thirty-five years’ experience in the film, television, and advertising industries. Starting with filmmakers McElroy & McElroy/Hanna Barbera, she worked on various Feature/TV projects from development through to production. Moving to freelance work in 1984, Fiona production-managed significant Australian films including Strictly Ballroom, Crocodile Dundee II, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Turtle Beach, as well as several TV series.
Between 1993-2002 (whilst managing family/children), Fiona moved into advertising and produced award-winning campaigns for some of the world’s largest brands, multinational corporations and NGOs. During this time she also joined Cranbrook Films as a producer and was responsible for production across Australia and New Zealand.
In December 2002 Fiona moved with her family to Tasmania, formed Latitude Films, and has continued to work locally, interstate and overseas, on film, television and advertising projects. Drama projects shot in Tasmania include: tele-feature Cable (Line Producer), docu-dramas The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, & The Outlaw Michael Howe (Co-Producer), Producer of comedy web series for ABC/iView Noirhouse Series 2, Foxtel’s Award-winning 8x1hr drama series The Kettering Incident (Line Producer), and Co-Producer on both series of Rosehaven, the 8 part comedy series for ABC TV/Sundance TV.
Scott Hartley – Freelance Line Producer
Scott Hartley has been working in the film and television industry, both nationally and internationally, for 25 years. Beginning his career at ATN 7 in Epping, NSW in 1994, he has worked on some of Australia’s and the world’s most successful television productions.
Scott worked for over 12 years as a First Assistant Director, scheduling the filming and running the sets of dramas such as “White Collar Blue”, “Home and Away”, “McLeod’s Daughters”, “Rush” and “Rescue Special Ops” as well as a number of children’s television dramas such as “Wild Kat” and “The Adventures of Chuck Finn”
From 2004 to 2007, Scott was the Coordinating Field Producer on eight seasons of CBS Television’s “Survivor”, coordinating filming and the field crew in locations from Guatemala and Panama, to Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Palau and the People’s Republic of China.
Since 2007, Scott has worked as a Line Producer on some of Australia’s most acclaimed dramas, including “Redfern Now”, Secret City 2”, Deep Water”, “On The Ropes”, “Love Child” and “Peter Allen – Not The Boy Next Door” as well as a number of documentaries such as “First Contact” and “Filthy, Rich and Homeless”.
Scott currently lives near the beach in Merewether, Newcastle, NSW.
