Full Name
Zaina Ahmed
Job Title
Development Executive, Scripted
Company
Special Broadcasting Corporation
Biography
Zaina is the Scripted Development Executive at SBS where she works across the broadcaster’s slate of bold primetime and shortform drama.
Before joining the broadcaster, she was the Associate Producer of the AACTA and Logie-nominated SBS Original series Erotic Stories, and prior to that the Development & Production Coordinator at Wooden Horse. She also has experience in TV sales at the independent distributor EntertainmentOne, and TVC production at the production and design studio Collider. In a past life, she got her start in the industry producing live comedy in Sydney.
A Bangladeshi-Australian raised in the Philippines and Indonesia, she is an advocate for diversity and equity in the sector. At SBS, her role encompasses support for the organization’s career pathways and content initiatives for underrepresented screen practitioners. She was also Coordinator for the Screen Australia Gender Matters Taskforce.
Before joining the broadcaster, she was the Associate Producer of the AACTA and Logie-nominated SBS Original series Erotic Stories, and prior to that the Development & Production Coordinator at Wooden Horse. She also has experience in TV sales at the independent distributor EntertainmentOne, and TVC production at the production and design studio Collider. In a past life, she got her start in the industry producing live comedy in Sydney.
A Bangladeshi-Australian raised in the Philippines and Indonesia, she is an advocate for diversity and equity in the sector. At SBS, her role encompasses support for the organization’s career pathways and content initiatives for underrepresented screen practitioners. She was also Coordinator for the Screen Australia Gender Matters Taskforce.
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