Helen Morrison

Title
Producer & Writer
Company
Allstory Pictures Pty Ltd
Biography
Helen Morrison, a producer and writer, was born in the UK and raised in Queensland. Over her 20-year award-winning career, she has produced or managed more than 70 hours of broadcast television, including projects that earned her a 2022 Logie Award. In 202 4, Helen and Dean Gibson (Writer/Director) were named successful Screen Queensland Enterprise Recipients, launching their new company, Allstory Pictures.

Helen produced the 2022 SPA Award-winning and Logie-winning feature documentary Incarceration Nation, released on NITV in 2021. Developed and financed with support from NITV, Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, The Post Lounge, and Documentary Australia, the film also won Best Documentary at the US-based BronzeLens Film Festival in 2022.

In 2021, Helen co-produced, co-wrote, and co-directed the Gold Promax ANZ-winning animated project Tjitji Lullaby for Bacon Factory Films, which aired on ABC Kids. The team followed up with Marringa Lullaby in 2022. Helen also leads her own production company, Bent3Land Productions, where she has produced award-winning documentaries, short films, and the feature film Convictions. Her content has aired on platforms including ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, NITV, SBS, and Sesame Street (The Recyclables). Helen also created short documentaries for Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food in Cherbourg and Mossman Gorge. As supervising producer for QPIX in 2012-2013, she oversaw a slate of multi-award-winning dramas and documentaries.

Produced by Helen, Wik vs Queensland (NITV) premiered at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival and later screened at the Brisbane International Film Festival, Human Rights and Arts Festival, and ImagineNative in 2019. It won the 2018 ATOM Award and the Inaugural First Nations Media Feature Documentary Award.

Her short film Welcome to Country (written and directed by Dean Gibson) premiered at Flickerfest 2017, winning numerous awards and screening internationally at festivals such as Mendocino (Best Film), FIFO, and Dumbo Film Festival. It was also part of the 2018 Commonwealth Games Short Film Program. The project was developed with Screen Queensland’s support.

Helen also works as a sessional lecturer at Griffith Film School while developing a diverse slate of drama, feature films, television series, documentaries, and children’s content, solidifying her reputation as a versatile and accomplished storyteller.
Helen Morrison