Filmmaker
Lisa Shaunessy
Since Co-Founding Australian production and distribution company ARCADIA, Lisa has built a track record of consistent commercial and critical hits.
Number 1 performing series across the SBS Network, 8-part dramedy While The Men Are Away, has been in release since September 2023 and is nominated for Best Miniseries at both the AACTA and SPA Awards in 2024, as well as Best Costume Design at the AACTA Awards. While The Men Are Away has also been selected to screen at the Berlinale Series Selects, 2024. Lisa produced SXSW breakout hit SISSY (2022), starring two-time AACTA nominee, Aisha Dee. Ahead of its World Premiere, SISSY sold to Shudder in a multi-territory deal and was nominated for three AACTA Awards in 2022, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Actress. It was also nominated at the SPA, ADG and AWG Awards. In 2022, Lisa also produced Sundance Lab sci-fi romance, In Vitro, starring Ashley Zukerman (Succession, The Code).
In 2020 she produced sci-fi thriller 2067 (XYZ/RLJE Films/Netflix), starring Oscar-nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee. 2067 set the record for number of weeks in the Number 1 position for an Australian film on Netflix (ANZ), and was a global commercial success - reaching No 1 on iTunes in North America. 2067 was nominated for AACTA, ADG, SPA, APDG, AEAF,and ATOM Awards in 2021, won the ACS Award for Best Cinematography and opened the Adelaide Film Festival in 2020.
Previously Lisa produced Sundance hit Killing Ground (IFC, 2017), nominated for an AACTA in 2017, Shudder No 1, The Furies (Shudder/StudioCanal, 2019); AACTA award-winning series Hipsters (SBS, 2015); Black & White & Sex (IFF Rotterdam, 2013) and ASC award-winning documentary Slammin’ Sam (Foxtel, 2013). She is an AFTRS, TAP and Small Giants alumni.
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