Christopher Weekes is an actor, writer, and director who trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) and NIDA. Chris made his feature debut when he wrote, directed, and starred in Bitter and Twisted with Noni Hazlehurst, Leanna Walsman, and Gary Sweet. The film had its US premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an IF Award, two AFIs, and two Film Critics Circle Awards. Christopher recently directed Christmas on the Farm, produced by Hoodlum Entertainment and STAN which was the highest-rated original film for 2021. Martha the Monster, a short film that Chris wrote and directed (produced by Jamie Hilton and Michael Pontin), had its international debut at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2017. It was the opening night film at Flickerfest 2018. Chris also wrote the screenplay for Maya the Bee: The Honey Games, a sequel to the animated feature Maya the Bee, which screened in more than 160 countries. In 2009, Chris’ spec script about the life of Jim Henson, The Muppet Man, topped the Hollywood Black List. He currently has several other projects in development, including a television adaptation of A Long Way To A Small Angry Planet for AMC, Ponzi’s Scheme – based on the Mitchell Zuckoff book, an adaptation of the Eisner award-winning graphic novel Blankets and an Untitled Jess Mauboy Animated Musical with Village Roadshow.

Jamie Hilton is an Australian film and television producer, and founder of See Pictures. Jamie has produced or executive produced more than 20 feature films, including the adaptation of Tim Winton’s Breath (Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debecki), Devil’s Peak (Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright), Swinging Safari (Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce), The Waiting City (Joel Edgerton, Radha Mitchell), Backtrack (Adrian Brody) and Josh Lawson’s cult comedies, The Little Death and Long Story Short. His productions have played Official Competition at Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance, and he is a Best Picture winner and three-time nominee at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. Jamie was selected as the Screen International Future Leaders showcase in Cannes 2015, he has taught production at the University of Technology Sydney, and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Before making movies, Jamie produced over 120 music videos for artists such as Blink 182, Kasey Chambers, Eskimo Joe and Guy Sebastian. Jamie is a founding partner of Home Fire, who are working with the Western Australian government to build sound stages in Perth; due to open in 2025. He is also a founding partner of new Australian production services company Servo.

Michael Pontin is an AACTA Award-winning producer with a strong creative background and significant production experience across more than a dozen feature films. He worked with See Pictures for over a decade as an executive and producer, and was head of their Ticket to Ride division. He worked across all aspects of producing from development, acquisition and finance, through line-producing to post-producing and delivery, with a focus on physical production and budgeting.​

“Growing up, Jim Henson was my world. Most kids dream of going to Disneyland? Well, I dreamed of moving to Sesame Street. Because that’s what I imagined the happiest place on Earth to be. I eventually made it to New York as an adult and was bitterly disappointed I never saw any furry monsters running around. That’s when I had this idea. What if Sesame Street was real? What if Grover, Elmo and Cookie had grown up, like I had – but instead of singing alphabet songs – we’re meeting in some pretentious bar for a sympathy beer over our twenty-something problems? Where relationships get complicated when your date turns up with horns and a tail. Where having “Monster” as a last name brings a new level of prejudice to your life. What if you applied the “monsters living with humans” logic of Sesame Street into our world today — and framed it through the journey of a twenty-something monster, tonally shaped like Girls? Is there any greater way to tell the story of an outsider than having the main character be a seven foot tall monster with horns and a tail? Martha holds up a mirror to our crazy urban lives. She’s you and me underneath the fur. It’s about identity, being angry at the right things and managing insecurities when ugly cracks surface. It’s about finding your monster voice and following your human dreams. It’s about surviving your 20’s when you live in a crazy furry-human filled metropolis.”

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