Speaker Details

Full Name
Tianna Roberts
Company
Odin's Eye Entertainment
Title
Acquisitions & Development Manager
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Tianna Roberts is a Meanjin based Indian-Australian screenwriter, consultant, and script doctor, currently working as a Development and Acquisitions Manager at Odin's Eye Entertainment (OEE). She oversees both the development and acquisitions slates, as well as managing external project submissions. Tianna has utilised her skills to contribute to the creative development of exciting projects including the upcoming live action features The Infernal Machine (2022) and In Vitro (2023), and animated features Combat Wombat (2020), Daisy Quokka (2020) and The Wishmas Tree (2019). Tianna is also Executive Producing female-adventure documentary feature film ICE MAIDEN (2023).

Tianna also works within writers’ rooms in the capacity of both writer and notetaker with creative powerhouses Fremantle Media, Matchbox Pictures, and the Steve Jaggi Company, as well as co-running Brisbane-based creative collective The Scene Story Collective.

In 2020, Tianna was selected as one of eight Women of Colour to be mentored by American screenwriter C. Robert Cargill (Dr Strange, Sinister 1 & 2) as well as writing duo Ty Leisher and Eric Brodeur (Exit 44 Entertainment). Her YA Drama, College Row, was selected in the SQ Creative Consultations initiative with Paul Walton from 720 Creative (a Fremantle Media subsidiary company) following which she was invited to participate in an exclusive Mentorship program operated by 720 Creative. Other independent screenwriting projects have found success in multiple international competitions, including placing in Austin Film Festival’s inaugural competition as well as the Oscar qualifying Holly-Shorts short film competition.

Tianna wasa finalist in the SBS Writer’s Incubator initiative in both 2021 and 2022. Tianna was also selected as an AA122 (Asian-Australian) List of 2022 Honouree – a list that honours the 122 Asian Australians who have had the most impact on Australian culture, society and institutions over the past year.
Tianna’s ambitions are to tell bold, engaging, and unique stories that vividly illustrate the distinctive experiences of Australian life and are stories that she feels are both culturally and socially imperative. Belonging to the LGBTQI+ and South-Asian communities, Tianna strongly advocates and believes in the need for more representation and diversity within our creative industries. The intention for her work is to bring diversity to the screens and provoke thought, emotion, discussion, critical thinking and change in a domestic and international capacity.
What we're looking for from Ready, Steady, Pitch!
Odin’s Eye are seeking scripted projects with engaging characters and strong concepts that are both universally relatable yet are somehow also unique. Projects may be animated, live action or hybrid. Documentaries are considered but are preferably feature length and they must have a strong call to action. We are not currently seeking format or lifestyle shows. All in all, we are looking for things that are original, smart, fun, diverse and ideally the project may help make the world a better place.