Our Team

Samantha Laughton, Co-Managing Director at Honey Any Productions and a writer/director/producer. A woman with long, wavy hair smiling at the camera, wearing a black top, with Indigenous artwork in the background.

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Co-Managing Director

Samantha Alexis Laughton is an Eastern Arrernte writer, producer, director with a Master’s in Arts Screen Business from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, who has worked extensively in film, television and broadcast over the past two decades. Samantha is a rising writer, producer, shortlisted in the top ten for the 2026 ‘Wake In Fright’ Initiative, supported by AACTA and Umbrella, shortlisted for the 2022 SBS Emerging Writers Incubator, a top five selection for the 2020 AACTA Regional Landscapes Pitch, and a runner-up for the 2019 Sundance Merata Mita Fellowship. Samantha is a writer on feature film, RUBY MOONLIGHT, currently in development with No Coincidence Media and Arena Media, and was an associate producer on Netflix mega-series, TERRITORY (2023).

Samantha was the recipient of the first inaugural Netflix First Nations Scholarship with the AFTRS in 2023 to complete her Master’s and facilitated the first Netflix First Nations Production Ready Bootcamp for the Australia, New Zealand (ANZ) Grow Creative Equity Program the same year. Samantha was an advisory board member on the Screen Australia Gender Matters Taskforce since 2023 and has worked in broadcast as the Chief Operations Officer at Toombak Indigenous Productions, producer, line producer and production manager, of Logie-nominated THE MARNGROOK FOOTY SHOW and TALKING TREATY. She has also worked in traffic at SBS, NITV, in TVC production, sales and corporate sponsorship at WIN, Channel Nine, and in copyrights’ management at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. Samantha was an official ‘Treaty Correspondent’ for the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria as a radio broadcast journalist at First Australians Media Enterprise, Melbourne. She has also taught contemporary dance workshops for longtime colleague, ‘drama coach to the stars’, Bryn Williams at Sylvia Young Theatre School, London.

Credits include: Writer, Producer, Director, FENCE (Spark Short Film Initiative 2024), Casting Assistant, NCIS: SYDNEY (2024), Director’s Attachment, KANGAROO (Studiocanal, 2024), Associate Producer, TERRITORY (Netflix, Easy Tiger Productions, Ronde Media 2023), Producer’s Assistant (Ronde Media 2023), Casting Assistant, BILLION DOLLAR PLAYGROUND (Ronde Media 2023), Junior Development Producer (No Coincidence Media, 2024), Producer’s Attachment THE MOOGAI (No Coincidence Media, 2023-2024), Writer, Director, HEPHAESTION (Spark Short Film Initiative, 2023), VFX Coordinator on Dev Patel's MONKEY MAN (2023), Warwick Thornton's THE NEW BOY, Kitty Green's THE ROYAL HOTEL (2023), 3rd Assistant Director and VFX Coordinator on Jon Bell's THE MOOGAI (Causeway Films, No Coincidence Media, 2022), 3rd Assistant Director on Bunya Productions crime series TRUE COLOURS (2021).

Rebecca Parker, Co-Managing Director at Honey Ant Productions and a writer/director/producer. Close-up of a woman wearing a wide, brown hat outdoors with a blue sky background.

REBECCA PARKER

Rebecca is a writer/producer/director from the Northern Territory. The daughter of two artist/schoolteachers, Rebecca spent her childhood living in many remote Indigenous communities and recently returned to live in the NT with her young family. Rebecca has a BA in Film & International Relations (QUT) and MA in Film and TV Directing (AFTRS). She has worked for close to two decades in the film and television industry, in Australia, the UK, the US, South East Asia and the Middle East.

Rebecca specialised early on in international conflict work and she continues to be interested in stories of political and social change. She has worked for the President of Timor Leste, the Prime Minister of Australia and several other Federal Parliamentarians as a media advisor and photographer, and continues to be the go to photographer in Northern Australia for high end feature, commercial and long form work. In the last five years, Rebecca has returned to her first love - drama - and currently has two original TV series in development with Broadstory (Greg Haddrick/Lisa McCune and Fiona Banks) and Macgowan Films (Marian Macgowan). Her pilot TV script ‘Do Good’ was a finalist in the AWG Monte Miller Award.

Rebecca’s recent short film, BEAR, premiered at one of the world's most prestigious genre film festivals, Fantasia, followed by screenings at the St Kilda Film Festival, SXSW, Film Quest and many others. BEAR has won a swag of awards including Best Dramatic Film, and Best Director at the Australian Women’s Film Festival and Best Director and Best Technical Achievement at the Far South Film Festival. In 2024, Rebecca won the NT Media Award for Best Visual Storyteller, and a thirteen part investigative series she worked on, 'NT Schools in Crisis', won a Walkley for  Indigenous Affairs Reporting. In 2023, her documentary, MAMIRNIKUWI was nominated for the Sustainable Futures Award at the Sydney Film Festival and was broadcast on the ABC.

Rebecca also works as an Assistant Director on major TV shows including: Territory (Netflix), Deadloch 2 (Amazon Prime) and Top End Bub (Amazon Prime). She was the 1st AD on the Screen Australia funded series, THE HAIRY MARYS and Director’s Attachment to Kriv Stenders on NCIS SYDNEY 2 (Paramount). Rebecca has also worked in script development, including for David Thompson and Origin Pictures (UK).

Rebecca's films and documentaries have screened in over one hundred international film festivals and been broadcast by the ABC, SBS, BBC, CNN, CBS, ARTE, NHK, ITV, MBC, ALJAZEERA and other international broadcasters.  She is the recipient of a British Council Award, the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and the European Union Film Award for her body of work.

Co-Managing Director