Full Name
Virginia Whitwell
Company
GoodThing Productions
Title
Head of Production and Partner
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Over a 30 year career, Virginia is a highly experienced producer of factual and scripted content. Hailing from the UK, she has worked on numerous productions all over the world. Her extensive production experience includes projects for Warner Bros, HBO, Lucasfilm, EON, 20th Century Fox and Universal. She has worked on location in UK, Australia, Germany, France, Thailand, Turkey and Iceland. She is the Head of Production and partner at Good Thing Productions and has produced many projects including multi award winning feature film 'Nitram' directed by Justin Kurzel (Official Selection and Best Actor, Cannes 2021, London Film Festival 2021, 8 AACTA 2021 awards). Virginia also produced AACTA nominated NZ co-production feature comedy 'Nude Tuesday' directed by Armagan Ballantyne starring Jackie van Beek, Damon Herriman and Jemaine Clement (Tribeca, Sydney and Edinburgh Film Festivals 2022). Her feature documentary credits include AACTA winning The Australian Dream directed by Daniel Gordon (opening night MIFF 2019, Telluride, TIFF, LFF 2019) 2040 and AACTA winning 'That Sugar Film' both directed by Damon Gameau. She is executive producer on forthcoming feature documentary 'Ellis Park', director Justin Kurzel (MIFF 2024) and producer on comedy feature film 'One More Shot', director Nick Clifford, due for release in 2025.
Production Company Profile
The GoodThing remit, across factual and narrative is simple. We look for strong ideas that have something to say. They can entertain and provoke discussion. They can connect with audience both in Australia and beyond. The balance of these elements may vary, but ideally a GoodThing project reflects these key criteria whether its feature film, television series, one-offs or returnable.