Carmel Travers is one of Australia
’
s most experienced media practitioners having held executive
and producing roles for several decades. From university she joined ABC Australia as a
journalist, producer and host of their prime
-
time current affairs
programmes.
She
’
s worked
across the globe for BBC World Service, CBC Canada and PBS followed by multiple seasons of
the ABC
’
s highest rating show, Towards 2000, covering the global science and tech boom.
In
l984 Carmel founded Beyond International, creat
ed and produced fifteen seasons of the hit show
Beyond 2000 and was Director and Chair during the company
’
s public listing. She was the first
woman to head up a Network News Division at Network Ten Australia, has produced acclaimed
features and documentari
es and owned and ran Australia's biggest digital producer, Energee
Entertainment, later acquired by RTVGermany.
In 2018 Carmel founded Pop Family
Entertainment,
launched with global Netflix Original series, Alien TV (78 episodes) followed by
the Netflix
commissioned feature documentary OneFour
–
Against All Odds. Carmel recently
completed the acclaimed feature film, The Correspondent, preselected for Venice Biennale and
which is screening in cinemas across Australia and New Zealand. Pop
’
s current slate in
cludes
animated feature films and series, and theatrical scripted and unscripted features