Nathan Anderson joined the media industry in the late 1990’s with formative experiences including a production role on The Matrix. He has 20 years’ experience in tech startups and large media companies including Disney, Foxtel, and NBC Universal developing and delivering projects across diverse digital platforms. A proponent of transmedia and multiplatform thinking, Nathan has long been exploring the merger of traditional media storytelling with high tech innovation and finds his natural home in VR.
Nathan is a member of the Producers Guild of America, New Media Council, and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events. Nathan graduated with a Masters by Research (AFTRS, 2010) exploring interactive narrative forms.

Born in New Zealand and based in Australia, Grayson Cooke is an interdisciplinary scholar and media artist, Chair of Creative Arts at Southern Cross University. Grayson has presented media art and live audio-visual performance works in Australia and internationally, and he has exhibited and performed in major international festivals such as the Japan Media Arts Festival, the WRO Media Art Biennale, the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York, VIDEOFORMES in France and the Currents New Media festival in Santa Fe. As a scholar he has published widely in academic journals, and he is also an associate editor for the scholarly journal “Transformations.” He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Montreal.

Sam has extensive experience producing original Entertainment, Drama, Comedy and Children's content having previously worked at the BBC and with London based production companies. With a passion for a well-run and happy production, Sam is currently producing Bluey for ABC and BBC Studios, whilst also being across all commercial activity for the brand and Ludo's live action slate currently in development.

Ludo is a CelAction Animation Studio employing designers, boarders, artists, directors, animators, production managers and producers on new original productions. Ludo’s animation, writing, directing, sound, score and production is all under one roof in Brisbane, Australia. Ludo produces the most popular series on Australian TV, Bluey, and employs over fifty creatives and producers on their original productions.

Ruby Schmidt is a screen practitioner and producer from Brisbane with a background in factual and scripted content. Ruby completed a Bachelor of Laws in 2013 before spending two years as a Development Executive at Carbon Creative, working across a diverse slate of projects including 32 part NRL studio show ‘League Nation Live’ (NITV), and ‘Sesame Street Season 47’ interstitials. While at Carbon Ruby also spent time working on a range of advertising campaigns for various State and Federal Government agencies.
Ruby has worked as a Line Producer on the four-part NITV/FranceTV series ‘Elements’ (2018) for WildBear Entertainment and was the Production Manager on the MIFF/Netflix feature documentary ‘Iron Fists and Kung-Fu Kicks’ (2019). Ruby is currently Associate Producer on feature documentary 'Brock: Over the Top’ for Universal and ABC.
Ruby is also the founder and principal of Toy Shop Entertainment – a production company based in Brisbane. In 2020 Ruby produced 'Belonging' a half hour LGBTQI documentary for Screen Australia and Ten Play which premiered at Mardi Gras in February. The film was awarded best Documentary short at Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Toy Shop Entertainment is currently in development on a number of projects including 'Zaroville: Curse of the Fried Chicken' an Indigenous comedy series co-created by and starring Ian Zaro and written by Bjorn Stewart and Kodie Bedford – developed with support from Screen Australia. Ruby is also currently financing documentary feature ‘General Hercules’ with director Brodie Poole.