Speaker Details
Full Name
Tracey Vieira
Company
Hoodlum Entertainment
Title
Chief Content Officer
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Tracey Vieira is the Chief Content Officer for Emmy® and BAFTA Award winning film and television production company Hoodlum. Hoodlum operates between Australia, the US and the UK.
Since joining Hoodlum in 2019, Tracey has produced the 2022 Netflix number one global hit A Perfect Pairing, a romantic comedy feature film starring Adam Demos and Victoria Justice, produced feature film Christmas on the Farm for Stan which was released in December 2021, Executive Produced action-thriller feature Land of Bad, starring Russell Crowe and Liam and Luke Hemsworth due for release in late 2023 and the ABC series In Our Blood which premiered in March 2023.
Prior to Hoodlum Tracey was the CEO of Screen Queensland where she led the organisation through significant cultural change and growth from February 2014 to August 2019. Vieira was named in the 2018 Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence and is the 2016 Telstra Queensland Businesswoman of the Year. Vieira is currently the President of Screen Producers Australia, Chairs the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and is a Director of Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gold Coast and Chair of its Precinct and Development Committee, and Chair of Griffith Film School’s Advisory Board. She is an external Advisor to US based Australians in Film.
Tracey is a passionate animal advocate and spent four years as a company director for RSPCA Queensland.
Since joining Hoodlum in 2019, Tracey has produced the 2022 Netflix number one global hit A Perfect Pairing, a romantic comedy feature film starring Adam Demos and Victoria Justice, produced feature film Christmas on the Farm for Stan which was released in December 2021, Executive Produced action-thriller feature Land of Bad, starring Russell Crowe and Liam and Luke Hemsworth due for release in late 2023 and the ABC series In Our Blood which premiered in March 2023.
Prior to Hoodlum Tracey was the CEO of Screen Queensland where she led the organisation through significant cultural change and growth from February 2014 to August 2019. Vieira was named in the 2018 Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence and is the 2016 Telstra Queensland Businesswoman of the Year. Vieira is currently the President of Screen Producers Australia, Chairs the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and is a Director of Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gold Coast and Chair of its Precinct and Development Committee, and Chair of Griffith Film School’s Advisory Board. She is an external Advisor to US based Australians in Film.
Tracey is a passionate animal advocate and spent four years as a company director for RSPCA Queensland.
Production Company Profile
Hoodlum is an Emmy® and BAFTA Award-winning production company founded in 1999 by Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield and operating between Australia, the US and the UK. The company's global slate runs across scripted and unscripted television and feature film with projects in development and production with Paramount +, ABC, STAN, CBS International and more.
Hoodlum's most recent productions included action-thriller LAND OF BAD, starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, and drama series IN OUR BLOOD for the ABC. Hoodlum also recently produced the romantic comedy feature films CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM, which premiered on Stan, and A PERFECT PAIRING for Netflix, which hit number 1 globally. The third season of FIVE BEDROOMS premiered on Paramount Plus in Australia and Peacock in the US, with the fourth season set to release in May 2023.
Currently, Hoodlum is working on the feature film NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS based on the award-winning book from Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani who chronicled his harrowing experiences as a refugee seeking asylum in Australia, which resulted in his incarceration on Manus Island.
Hoodlum's most recent productions included action-thriller LAND OF BAD, starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, and drama series IN OUR BLOOD for the ABC. Hoodlum also recently produced the romantic comedy feature films CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM, which premiered on Stan, and A PERFECT PAIRING for Netflix, which hit number 1 globally. The third season of FIVE BEDROOMS premiered on Paramount Plus in Australia and Peacock in the US, with the fourth season set to release in May 2023.
Currently, Hoodlum is working on the feature film NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS based on the award-winning book from Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani who chronicled his harrowing experiences as a refugee seeking asylum in Australia, which resulted in his incarceration on Manus Island.
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