Hopscotch’s Rachel Okine wins Natalie Miller Fellowship
One of Australia’s top production and acquisitions executives has been named the inaugural winner of a fellowship designed to honour women in the screen industry.
Rachel Okine, GM and production and acquisitions executive of Hopscotch Features claimed the Natalie Miller Fellowship.
As general manager of production house Hopscotch Features, Okine has overseen the development of recent big budget productions such as I, Frankenstein and The Mothers.
The Fellowship honours one woman who has demonstrated initiative, entrepreneurship and excellence working in the Australian screen industries.
Okine was presented the grant of $10,000 by film producer and former Screen NSW CEO Tania Chambers.
The Hollywood Reporter named Okine among twenty young film executives to watch from the Asia-Pacific region.
Okine has been in the industry for 19 years, the last ten with Hopscotch and seven in her current role.
Okine will use the grant to participate in The Women’s Leadership Forum, a course by the Harvard Business School.
Fellowship spokesperson Chrissy Thomson said: “We are delighted that Rachel has been chosen as the first recipient of Natalie Miller Fellowship, she is a very worthy winner and we are thrilled with the opportunities this Fellowship will provide for both Rachel and the future vitality and relevance of our screen industry.”
Natalie Miller is the co-founder of the influential Cinema Nova in Melbourne and founder of distribution house Sharmill Films.
