Sheila Jayadev
Sheila Jayadev
Matchbox Pictures & Emerald Productions Producer
Sheila is a creative producer with a background in entertainment law. Most recently, she completed the feature film Here Out West, a co-production with Co-Curious, which was selected as a Film Prize Finalist at CinefestOz 2021, opened Sydney Film Festival 2021 and nominated for best film at the AACTA Awards and Film Critics Circle Awards. In 2020 Sheila produced the critically acclaimed miniseries Stateless for Matchbox Pictures and Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films which premiered at the Berlinale 2020 and won 13 AACTA Awards. In 2016, she produced the multi award-winning feature film Ali’s Wedding (Winner - Audience Award SFF, Critics Choice MIFF, Best Film CinefestOz). Both Ali’s Wedding and Stateless have been sold to Netflix.
Sheila has worked in development at Scott Free, Ridley Scott’s London-based production company, and also as a Development & Production Executive for Screen NSW and Screen Australia. She currently works for Matchbox Pictures as a producer, where she is in production on House of Gods for ABC. Passionate about telling diverse stories, Sheila has written and directed various short form productions which have screened at film festivals internationally. She is a founding member of boutique production company Emerald Productions with Lyn Norfor and Prue Williams.
Sheila has worked in development at Scott Free, Ridley Scott’s London-based production company, and also as a Development & Production Executive for Screen NSW and Screen Australia. She currently works for Matchbox Pictures as a producer, where she is in production on House of Gods for ABC. Passionate about telling diverse stories, Sheila has written and directed various short form productions which have screened at film festivals internationally. She is a founding member of boutique production company Emerald Productions with Lyn Norfor and Prue Williams.
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New Visions: The Future of Diaspora Storytelling
TUE, OCT 17, 3:30 PM
Conference
There’s been a lot of focus on improving ‘diversity’ on and off screen in recent years, and with it, pressure for culturally diverse filmmakers to speak for their communities and represent migrant stories in certain ways. In this panel we look to the future, exploring the work of three Western Sydney filmmakers who are finding ways to break out of that model, bringing new, authentically authored stories to national and international audiences.
Join producer Sheila Jayadev, writer/director Andrew Undi Lee and writer/actor Randa Sayed in a discussion with Sheila Ngoc Pham about the development process, making of and reception to recent projects including new SBS horror anthology NIGHT BLOOMERS, award winning feature film HERE OUT WEST, and a new Untitled collaboration with the Powerhouse.
How are they finding new ways to authentically tell their stories to Australian and international screen audiences? How can we continue to push expectations of what a ‘migrant story’ is? What are the opportunities and challenges of working with diaspora communities? How is (and isn’t) the industry supporting them to tell stories the way they want to? And what is it that makes Western Sydney storytelling unique?
