Screen NSW is holding a monthly webinar series to help demystify market partners and support mid-level practitioners to feel more confident to create and pitch projects.

Join us this month for our NAIDOC Week Power Lunch as we speak with First Nations creatives Kodie Bedford (Reckless, Return to Paradise) and Daniel King (Her Name Is Nanny Nellie, Rick Stein’s Australia) to discuss how story, audience and market intersect in their creative practice. Moving beyond traditional buyer-focused conversations, this session centres the voices of First Nations screen practitioners working across narrative and factual, as they share how they develop projects with audience in mind, build relationships with the market on their own terms, and provide insight into pitching, packaging, and positioning projects while maintaining an authentic voice.

Kodie and Daniel will be in conversation with First Nations Development Lead Nick Harvey-Doyle, followed by an audience Q&A.

Kodie Bedford

Kodie was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, with strong family ties to East Kimberley. Her best memories consist of her listening to her family spin yarns recounting town legends, family feats and spilling the odd secret. It was solid training for storytelling and, after watching an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, decided that she wanted to be a screenwriter.

Kodie has worked as journalist for SBS and a documentary filmmaker for the ABC. Never forgetting her dream of wanting to be a screenwriter, Kodie made the jump to television drama in 2018 and hasn’t looked back. Her numerous credits include Territory (Netflix), Return to Paradise (ABC), Mystery Road (ABC), Firebite (AMC+), RFDS (Channel 7) and All My Friends are Racist (ABC) which took out the 2021 AACTA award for best short form comedy. In 2023, Kodie was selected by the Australian Writers’ Guild to take part in the Showrunner Training program with Jeff Melvoin in Los Angeles. Recently Kodie wrote and executive produced Reckless (SBS), an adaption of the award-winning BBC series Guilt for BBC Studios Australia.

Kodie is currently developing her own slate of projects while splitting her time between Perth and London.

Daniel King

Daniel King is a Ngarigo, Yuin and Worimi filmmaker with over 20 years’ experience in the Australian screen industry. Daniel’s recent credits include Rick Stein’s Australia (SBS), When the War is Over (ABC), Her Name is Nanny Nellie (NITV–Al Jazeera), and Skin in the Game (NITV/SBS).

Daniel is the founder and owner of First Person Films, a majority Indigenous-owned production company dedicated to telling authentic stories that centre First Nations perspectives, social justice and the environment.

Holding a Master of Film and Television from the Victorian College of the Arts, Daniel combines compelling story craft with strong visual language that educate and emotionally moves his audiences. His ethos is grounded in respect, collaboration, and purpose-driven storytelling – using film to educate, provoke dialogue, and inspire change and reflection.

In 2025, Daniel was awarded Screen NSW’s First Nations Screen Fellowship and has been developing his documentary series Abolished with the support of this program.

Contact the host of Screen NSW Power Lunch with Kodie Bedford and Daniel King