OUR TEAM

JESSICA SMITH

Jessica Smith is an ADG Award winning, multi-hyphenate filmmaker with 15 years of production experience on high-profile projects, including Scream 4, Shantaram, Better Man and The Clearing.

As a director's attachment she worked with Academy Award winner Peter Farrelly on Ricky Stanicky and trained at Neighbours, directing multiple episodes of the iconic Australian soap. Her short film, The Test, enjoyed an award-winning run on the international festival circuit and now has over 800K views on YouTube. 

Jess' debut series Videoland won Best Series in the Comedy Competition at Series Mania 2024 and was acquired by Netflix ANZ, debuting in the Top 10 TV Shows in both Australia and New Zealand. The series - praised by TV Tonight as “a promising start to an emerging screen career” - won Jess an Australian Director's Guild Award and established her as an exciting new voice in Australian storytelling. 

A passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity on screen, Jess is committed to creating engaging and relatable stories centring historically underrepresented characters.

SCARLETT KOEHNE

Scarlett is a producer who pivoted away from law and toward television production and producing early in her career. Since then she has worked across large-scale scripted, factual and reality shows, including; Clickbait, Books That Made Us, Bondi Vet, La Brea and House of Wellness. 

Scarlett produced Screen Australia funded web-series, Loving Captivity, which was officially selected for Sydney Web Fest and won Best Series at London Web Fest, and is excited to grow her slate of original projects with Pikelet Pictures in the coming years. 

As an advocate of her totally blind toddler, she is dedicated to the inclusion and celebration of people with disability on our screens and in our stories, as well as equal access to meaningful careers for working mothers in the screen production industry.