ALLY BURNHAM
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Produced Writing Credits (Film, TV, Publishing)

  • Swallow (2025) – Slated for release November 1, 2025 
    • Novel - written by Alexandria Burnham
    • WestWords Books, Peribo Books
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Longlist – The Page Turner Awards for Unpublished Manuscripts (2022) – Ally Burnham

  • Metropius (2022)
    • Short Film – Screenwriter
    • 18 Degrees Entertainment
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Winner – AWGIE for Most Outstanding Animation (2022) – Ally Burnham
      • Winner – ACS Animation for Best Cinematography (2021)
      • Winner – Screen Queensland POC Funding (2019) (AcropolisWorld) 
      • Winner – Epic Megagrants Funding (2021)
 
  • Unsound (2020)
    • Feature Film – Screenwriter
    • Wise Goat Productions, FilmInk Presents, Netflix ANZ (2021-2024), Apple TV (2025)
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Winner – Best Australian Feature (Melbourne Queer Film Festival, 2020)
      • Winner – Best Fiction Feature (ATOM Awards, 2020)
      • Winner – Queer Screen/Mardi Gras Film Festival Completion Funding (2019)
      • Winner – Screen Australia Developing the Developer Program (2018)
      • Nominated – AWGIE for Best Original Feature (2020) – Ally Burnham
      • Nominated – AACTA for Best Indie Feature (2020)
      • Nominated – Septimius Awards for Best Oceania Film (2022)
      • Nominated – ASE for Best Editing in a feature film (2020)
      • Nominated – Casting Guild of Australia for Best Casting in a Feature Film (2020)
      • Nominated – International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience SCHLiNGEL Best Feature Film (2020)
      • Nominated – Merlinka festival for Best Feature Film (2020)
      • Nominated – Warsaw International Film Festival for Best Film (2020)

  • Forgotten Rose, Metropius (2024)
    • Comic Book series – written by Ally Burnham
      • Issue #1 & #2 out 2024 
    • Published by 18 Degrees Entertainment

  • The New Mythic (2022)
    • Contributing author, editor and publisher 
      • Novella The Stolen Sword published by Precipice Fiction
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Nominated – Aurealis Awards Best Young Adult Short Story (2023)
      • Nominated – Aurealis Awards Best Horror Novella (2023)
 
  • Flood & Fire (2022)
    • Short Film – Screenwriter
    • Faucet Fictions
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Selected: In-Competition for Lift-Off (Sydney, 2023)
 
  • Saving Daylight (2021)
    • Short Film – Story by
    • Faucet Fictions
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Selected: In-Competition for Flickerfest (Sydney, 2021)
 
  • Nice Package (2016)
    • Feature Film – Screenwriter co-credit
    • 18 Degrees Entertainment, Amazon Prime Video
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Winner – Chandler International Film Festival Jury Prize (2017)

  • 2.0 (2014)
    • Short Film – Screenwriter & Director
    • GFS
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Nominated – SoCal Creative and Innovative Film Festival for Best Science Fiction (2015)
      • Selected – Miami International Sci-Fi Film Festival (2015)
      • Selected – Boston Sci-fi Film Festival (2015)
      • Selected – International Horror and Sci-fi Film Festival (2015)
      • Selected – Scare-A-Con Horror and Sci-fi Film Festival (2015)
      • Selected – Eerie Horror Film Festival (2015)
      • Selected – Fantastic Planet Film Festival (Sydney, 2015)
      • Selected – Diabolical Film Festival (2015)
      • Selected – Phoenix Loves Sci-Fi (2015)
      • Winner – Most Outstanding Visual Effects (2014)
 
  • The Pilgrim Report (2013)
    • Short Film – Screenwriter
    • Samsung, NIDA, Baz Luhrmann
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Winner – The Shoot – Ally Burnham
      • Selected – Sydney Opera House 40th Anniversary Celebrations (2013)
 
 
Additional Awards & Recognitions (Film, TV, Publishing)


  • Amneziya (2018) – In development
    • Feature Film Screenplay – Screenwriter
    • 18 Degrees Entertainment
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Semi-Finalist – Screencraft Action & Thriller competition – Ally Burnham
 
  • Sweet Jane (2016) – In development
    • TV Development – Screenwriter
    • CJZ
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Winner – Screen Australia's Gender Matters Development Funding – Ally Burnham
 
  • De Havilland Rose (2016) – In development
    • TV Pilot Screenplay – Screenwriter
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Longlist – AWG Prime Time Screenwriting Competition – Ally Burnham
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  • Quill and Read (2023)
    • Online fantasy magazine 
    • Short Story Feeder published by Quill and Read
    • Short Story Suns of the Division published by Quill and Read
    • Short Story Clipped published by Quill and Read
    
  • Majesty (2020) – In development
    • Novel
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Winner – Varuna, the Writers House Residency Fellowship (2020) – Ally Burnham
 
Education
  • Masters in Fine Arts, Writing for Performance (2015-2016)
    • NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art)
 
  • Bachelor of Film and Screen Media (2012-2014)
    • Griffith Film School
 
  • The Sydney Theatre Company (2011)
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Winner – Young Playwrights Residency Program (2011)
 
  • Certificate III, VET Entertainment (2010-2011)
 
  • Bell Shakespeare (2010)
    • Awards & Recognitions:
      • Finalist – Stage for Life program (2010)
 
Industry Employment
  • WestWords (2022-Present)
    • Creative Producer
 
  • Faucet Fictions (2016-Present)
    • Freelance Screenwriter and Editor
      • CJZ, Blackfella Films, Essential Media, 18 Degrees Entertainment, Honeypot Films, Filmscope Entertainment, Rage (ABC)
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