Elliot Vella is a Sydney-based writer for film, television and audio drama. His feature film A Sunburnt Christmas was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) in the category Best Script (Telemovie or Mini Series), and an Audience Choice Award for Favourite Film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA). His other credits include A Christmas Ransom, for which he received his second AWGIE nomination, and his co-written audio sci-fi horror-thriller series Received at Murchison, which was awarded development funding under the Screenwest and Amazon Audible Sounds WAves initiative. Elliot has also worked in the script departments for several Australian shows including Totally Completely Fine and He Had It Coming.

“Pitching A Sunburnt Christmas through AACTA Pitch: Regional Landscapes alongside Gretel Vella and Timothy Walker was a big moment for me at the start of my career. The competition got us in contact with Every Cloud Productions, who ended up funding the feature alongside Stan. It’s a fantastic program that I highly recommend.”