Cameron's Welcomes Brietta Hague to the Agency

Brietta Hague is an experienced and multifaceted screenwriter and director. She employs her background in collaborative research, interviewing and story-gathering to create social-realist works of fiction.

Her debut short film drama Baltasar, which Brietta wrote, directed and shot in Spain, premiered at the 2021 Melbourne International Film Festival where it won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film. The work, which portrayed a day in the life of a Senegalese migrant in Barcelona, was named Best Film and Best Screenplay at the St Kilda Film Festival, with Brietta also awarded Best Director. Baltasar screened at various festivals around the world and in 2022 the Australian Directors’ Guild awarded Brietta Best Direction in a Short Film.

Brietta has been a roving director and producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation across the past ten years, making documentaries about contemporary and diverse subjects like climate change in Antarctica, Romani culture, the Mediterranean refugee crisis, Saudi social taboos and most recently a portrait film that encompasses the war in Gaza. For three years Brietta was based in Spain, freelancing as a journalist for ABC News, BBC News, Al Jazeera English, Atlantic Media and Slate Magazine. She produced reports and wrote features about some of the biggest issues and events in Europe. She also covered unique social, political and cultural stories in Morocco, Gibraltar, Côte d’Ivoire, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Estonia.  

Brietta’s documentaries have been finalists in the mid-year Walkley Awards and UN Media Peace Awards. Her most recent work Not In My Name for ABC’s Compass won the Australian Director Guild Award for Best Direction of a Short Documentary in 2024 and was nominated for Best Documentary Single at the AIDC Awards.

Among her current projects, Brietta is set to write and direct the film Uplift Kabul about the final days of the Afghanistan war. The feature is being produced by Causeway Films and is supported in development by Screen Australia and Screen NSW.

For enquiries regarding Brietta please contact us via email or on 02 9319 7199.