Vicki Sugars

Vicki's background is in film production having been the 1st assistant director on features and TV drama. In 2004 Vicki received her Masters in Creative Writing and directed her first short film Moustache which screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival. The film won 11 awards internationally and sold to Canal+, MTV USA, ZDF, ABCTV and ARTE TV Belgium, screening in over 130 festivals worldwide. That same year Vicki was associate producer to Bridget Ikin on the multi-award winning feature film Look Both Ways and produced the 6 minute claymation Extreme Makeover which premiered at Annecy in France and took out Best Animation at St Kilda Film Festival in 2007. Her 2nd short film Past Midnight premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2009 and won her Best Director at the SASA Awards. In 2010 Vicki was associate producer on Gillian Armstrong's feature length documentary Love Lust & Lies and established Velvet Orange, a production house with business partner Julie Byrne, to develop their own slate of features, TV drama and documentary.