Photo: Alexandrena Parker

I am a Greek-Australian AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts) award winning filmmaker, writer, actor and story developer based between Melbourne and Sydney. I created, wrote and starred in GORGOWINNER of the 2025 AACTA AWARD BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM. Screened worldwide at multiple festivals in the US and Europe, including a North American premiere at 2024 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and most recently selected by The French Academy (Académie des César) to screen in their European program of Les Nuits En Or 2025, dedicated to showcasing the best of international award-winning academy short films. Also nominated across multiple Australian film festivals, including being the Winner of Best Original Music at Academy/BAFTA qualifying Flickerfest 2024, and I won Best Performance and a Special Mention awards at 2025 Stellar Film Festival. 

I’m currently co-writing the sci-fi drama feature film 2 MOONS, produced by Co Curious with directer Fadia Abboud (HOUSE OF GODS), commissioned by the Powerhouse Museum to premiere in 2026. My supernatural cringe comedy online series CURSE OF THE VIRGIN received Screen Australia development funding, with Executive Producers Barry Gamba from Arts & Cultural Exchange (SBS’ NIGHTBLOOMERS) & Bec Bignell (Homespun for STAN) and is being directed by Grace Tan (SBS/Cannes’ APPETITE). I was selected for the 2024 Cinefest Oz Writer’s Retreat in Busselton Western Australia to further develop the pilot script.

I co-wrote Episode 4 for HALAL GURLS (ABCiview) and was the Producers’ Attachment (Development) for Co Curious’s Western Sydney anthology feature HERE OUT WEST. My original concept for a fantasy dark-comedy TV series FACE MY FURIE was selected for the Co Curious/NETFLIX’S Creative Equity Fund. I was also a Story Developer for Damien Strouthos’ (The Twelve) debut feature film PANOS, PANNOS & GEORGE directed by Peter Andrikidis. I’ve worked in roles across short form, story coverage for theatrical distribution STUDIOCANAL as a part of their Scripted Ink Writers’ Internship. I was selected for 2019 Screen Australia Developing the Developer where I took a development placement with LINGO PICTURES. I was the Script Coordinator for SBS’ show WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY and was the Script Coordinator for season 1 of THE LETDOWN (NETFLIX/ABCiview).

I’ve been a notetaker for writers rooms for See-Saw Films, Dreamchaser Entertainment, Lingo Pictures, Magpie Pictures, Made Up Stories, Co Curious, Moving On Productions, Afro Sistahs Collective and Arts & Cultural Exchange. I went to AFTRS (Australian Film, Television & Radio School) and did a 2021 Masters of Screen (Screenwriting) and most recently have begun working with Joan Scheckel, the internationally renowned creator of The Technique(TM).

“I love to tell heart-clenching stories about unorthodox women who are outsiders — who feel lost, who may be forgotten but won’t allow themselves to be, who are graceless and disruptive. So we can feel less alone.”

Photo: Alexandrena Parker

In Development

INNER BEAST | 90 mins dark-comedy fantasy feature film | TBA

CURSE OF THE VIRGIN | 7 x 7 online series | 2024 Screen Australia Online Development | Creator/Writer/Co-Producer

2 MOONS Feature Film (90 mins) | Co Curious, commissioned by Powerhouse Museum | Writer/Associate Producer

FURIES | 6 x 25 mins TV series | original concept created during ‘On The Bright Side,’ Netflix Creative Equity Fund/Co-Curious | Writer

Completed

GORGO | 19 mins short film | 2025 AACTA AWARD WINNER BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM | Writer

CURSE OF THE VIRGIN | 7 mins proof-of-concept | Digital Diasporas Initiative ACE (Arts & Cultural Exchange) & Rosie Lourde | Writer

HALAL GURLS | 6 x 10 mins online series ABCiview | AACTA Nominated Best Online Drama or Comedy | Co-Writer EPISODE 4

WE TAKE HER CHILDREN IN AMONGST OUR OWN | 6 mins short film | AFTRS | Writer

Accolades

2025 | GORGO - AACTA WINNER BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM | WRITER

2024 | CINEFEST OZ/WIFT AUS WRITER’S RETREAT SELECTED WRITER PARTICIPANT

2023 | IN THE ROOM FEATURE FILM COMMISSION | WRITER | CO CURIOUS

2022 | SCRIPTED INK/AWG (AUSTRALIAN WRITERS’ GUILD) | WRITERS’ INTERNSHIP STUDIOCANAL AUS/NZ

2022 | ON THE BRIGHT SIDE PROGRAM | CO CURIOUS/NETFLIX CREATIVE EQUITY FUND | SELECTED COMEDY WRITER

2022 | PRODUCER ATTACHMENT (DEVELOPMENT) | ON FEATURE FILM HERE OUT WEST | CO CURIOUS

2020 | DIGITAL DIASPORAS SELECTED WRITER (ACE, SCREEN AUSTRALIA, CREATE NSW)

2019 | SCREEN AUSTRALIA’S DEVELOPING THE DEVELOPER SELECTED PARTICIPANT

2017 | ICE PRODUCE PERFECT WORKSHOP - WINNER OF TV SERIES PITCHING COMPETITION

“Danielle will be creating and generating more impressive projects as the coming years unfold. For now, ‘Gorgo’ is a creative piece worth looking out for. It is a heavy and defining film, just like her win at the AACTA Awards.”

- Billy Cotsis (NEOS KOSMOS ARTICLE)