Virginia Whitwell was born in the UK and is a highly experienced film practitioner and producer with more than 20 years in the industry including projects for Warner Bros, HBO, Lucasfilm, EON, 20th Century Fox and Universal. She is the Head of Production at Good Thing Productions with Nick Batzias after having worked at Madman Entertainment. She has co-produced and produced many scripted and factual projects from Australia and New Zealand including All for One, Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy and Spookers, A Month of Sundays starring Anthony LaPaglia, all in 2017 and Damon Gameau’s That Sugar Film (2014), which is the highest-grossing non-IMAX Australian documentary of all time and which won an AACTA Award. She also produced Gameau’s follow-up, 2040 (2019), which premiered at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. She received her first APSA nomination for The Australian Dream about the Adam Goodes race saga in Australian football.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
