Bio

Rhianna is a proudly queer Butchulla and Kamilaroi writer, filmmaker and artist. She began her career in the Art Department with credits including Goldstone, Thor: Ragnarok, Mortal Engines and Elvis, before shifting into screenwriting and directing.

As a screenwriter, she’s worked on ABC’s Black Comedy, Bunya Productions’ Nice Shorts and Ludo Studio’s The Strange Chores. Her webseries Biting Dust was selected for AFTRS National Talent Camp 2020 and The Equity Foundation’s Diversity Showcase 2021, while her drama series Suburban Beats was selected for Screen Queensland’s First People’s First Draft initiative. In 2022, her short script The Stockman, developed with support from Screen Australia’s First Nations Department, won the AWG Monte Miller Award. In 2024, Rhianna was the Queensland recipient of the SBS Emerging Writer’s Incubator, through which she worked as Development Associate at Orange Entertainment Co. Her online series Mangrove Mansion, co-created with Mary Duong, was shortlisted for SBS’s Digital Originals 2024.

Rhianna was selected for BLACKapple and Common Ground’s inaugural She Directs program, receiving mentorship from directors Beck Cole, Briar Grace-Smith and Tanith Glynn-Maloney. She has directed a music video for First Nations musician GLVES, while her experimental short wului: pink smoke received a Common Ground Grounded Story Grant. With sparkling imagination and passion for taking audiences on surprising journeys, Rhianna’s storytelling explores connection, healing and resistance with joyful mischievousness and generous spirit.