The main creative force in Girls’ Own Pictures is Writer/ Director - Louise Wadley. Louise attended the National Film and Television School in London. Her short films Knickers and Just a Little Crush have played at festivals around the world. Her 35mm short film Just a little Crush won the Best Short award at the Milan International Lesbian and Gay festival, and her award winning documentary To Russia with Love has screened in more than ten countries and received Highly Commended in the Radharc Irish Television documentary awards. She was 1st Assistant Director on the renowned Chinese director Xie Jin’s $15 million dollar The Opium War. Her screenplay She Sells Sea Shells was a semi-finalist in the prestigious 2010 Nicholl Fellowship, (The Academy Awards unpublished Screenwriting Competition). Louise teaches film at the Sydney Film School and the University of Technology, Sydney.

Louise is a director of Girls’ Own Pictures.

Fundraising and organisational oversight comes from the Producer, Jay Rutovitz. Jay brings the experience of managing large budgets and attracting funding in the private and public sectors. Jay worked in film lighting as a gaffer in the UK from 1989 – 1997, and then pursued work in renewable energy consulting. She has run two successful businesses, Sustainable Energy Consultants (2002 – present) and Women’s Electrical Collective (1981 – 1986). She has managed large budgets (UK £1.3 million) as Energy Co-ordinator of Kirklees Metropolitan Council in the UK (1998 – 2001), and attracted more than £9 million in private and public funding to energy projects in the area.

Jay is a director of Girls’ Own Pictures.

Logistics brilliance and further creative input comes from the First Assistant Director, Sophie Clausen. Sophie graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in 1990 and has been involved extensively in stage and production management since then. She has long associations with most major arts festivals and organisations around Australia, and has worked on events ranging from the Olympic Arts festival to regular Mardi Gras parades. She continues to work on those arts projects that inspire her. Sophie has taught both stage and production management at NIDA. The trouble with e is her first (but certainly not her last) foray into film, and her first collaboration with Girls’ Own Pictures.