A six-part comedy-drama about family, food, and second chances. Created by @rachelmaxinex .
Watch on @youtube from June 12, following our @canneseries world premiere.
❤️🔥 Subscribe now - link in bio.
INA is a Sweet Mess Production for YouTube. Principal production funding from @screenaustralia in association with @screenqueensland .
We’re heading to @canneseries for our World Premiere! 💕✨
A deeply personal story exploring the complexities of family and culture starring @cruzylena and @triona.calimbayan.giles – soon reaching a global audience.
We’re incredibly proud of what this team has created, and honoured to be the only Australian series selected for the festival, taking place April 23-28.
INA is a Sweet Mess Production for YouTube. Principal production funding from @screenaustralia in association with @screenqueensland .
Created + Written + Directed by: @rachelmaxinex
Producers: @daniellejoy@raechoi_
Executive Producers: @mssouzani@rubyruizzz
Co-Producer: @eleannnoor
Starring:
Gloria: @cruzylena
Madeline: @triona.calimbayan.giles
#ScreenAustralia #ScreenQueensland #MadeInQueensland #CANNESERIES
Producer @daniellejoy with producer @raechoi_ and one-half of our sound recording and design team @chris__terror at production wrap vs. the first email creator @rachelmaxinex ever sent to Danielle about INA back in 2021. There’s a long journey in the years in between and that’s just one of the reasons why wrap brought a lot of joy and tears – we made it!
We’re grateful for every single human who’s worked to bring INA from a vision in an inbox to a living, breathing series – one you’ll get to sink your teeth into very soon.
Photo @_soundslikemel
#behindthescenes
✨ Introducing Producer Danielle Redford ✨
“I count it a great privilege to be able to work alongside Rach and our creative team as INA steps from years of conversations and creative longings into tangible, delicious reality. Bold, tender, and fiercely captivating, INA holds nothing back in demanding – and rewarding – our attention. I can’t wait for many communities to discover this series for themselves. You’ll be craving another taste after every episode.”
Danielle is a creative producer known for her versatile work across screen and audio in narrative and unscripted projects alike. Her feature ZOMBUCHA! premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival in 2025 and will release theatrically with Maslow Entertainment. She’s produced for leading Australian organisations, including ABC, Fremantle Media, Princess Pictures and Audible, with work that has premiered at numerous international leading festivals. In 2020, she was named a SPA Ones to Watch.
Berlin you were broody cinema magic and grin-gifting snowflakes amongst a never-ending hustle to not ski over on the way to the next chat - London you were deliciously cheeky and readily met our theatre greed with an overwhelming amount of marvel - grateful for friends old and new in cities full of surprises
Our feature Zombucha! is premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August. A bunch of wonderful humans got together and poured everything they had into making this film a reality.
‘This sounds really ambitious’ was the general response we got when pitching. ‘Yeah!’ we would nod, because yeah, it was, every single shot and every single day.
And now it’s here. Real and hilarious and heartfelt and so much more than the sum of its parts thanks to the care and creativity and excellence and tenacity of so many, from all kinds of corners, doing everything in their power to make this adventure one that was wholesome AF - and a film that is too. Go in for the zombuchas and stay for the absolute heart of it all.
A special recent thank you to our incredible post partners @spectrumfilmsfs and @folklore_sound who worked so hard and with such care to make sure we were big screen ready by August. What an utter joy it was to work with this gang of talented and generous humans in our final stretch to the finish line.
Tickets are available now for this @melbfilmfest kick-off. We’re premiering on our director Claudia Dzienny’s 40th birthday so really where else would you possibly want to be that night?
I’m excited to be joining two of my favourite creative magicians, Jade van der Lei and @tannerofjosh + the wonderful Louise Gough from @screenaustralia + our moderator legend Zoe Angus from @screen_producer to dig into the world of low budget Australian features at Screen Forever next week.
This one’s close to the bone for each of us as we’re fresh off the back of productions - which means nothing but honest, real deal chats (because you need more sleep than is going around to pull off any other kinds).
We’ll be unpacking what it means to make films at a low budget level in Australia today across funding, creative processes, policy, the Producer Offset, and why these films are worth all the creative problem-solving required to conjure them into being. Sleep be damned. Rewards be joyful.
Huge thanks to @jess_giacco for continuously curating space for crucial shared conversations each year. She’s a wonder.
The Low Budget Feature: Its Role and Reality in Australian Film
Wednesday 7 May – 10:15am
More info: https://bit.ly/3GmPII1
is it even a family holiday if @flynnhopping isn’t crying on FaceTime before she leaves because her flight’s been cancelled so many times and your father doesn’t sing karaoke on a boat and four out of eleven suitcases disappear and five out of eleven go down with an undefined bug? If it is I don’t want it (apart from that last bit)
‘What is it that you need to learn to bring business skills into your creative craft?’
We’re tackling this gap between creative ambition and practical process in our pre-launch of the Greenhouse.
If you’ve got plans to make big moves, take creative risks and back yourself on a deeper level than you have before in 2025, come and join us for the next two weeks to build the foundation you need for what’s ahead!
Link in bio to tell you everything you need to know about the Greenhouse - and why we believe you don’t have to choose between making a living and making what you love.
this beauty is now live for your listening pleasure and my entirely biased opinion says you should dive on in.
Bringing this season to life has been utter joy and deep learnings. Our incredible patients brought a generosity, curiosity, and self-compassion into every session that undid me and healed me up over and over again, watching @chantelle_otten_sexologist so entirely in her giftings was a damn privilege, and doing it alongside the wonders of @stephvanschilt and @bettyburnett made for the dreamiest of teams. This is sex therapy and human therapy and joy therapy and compassion therapy and above all, it is a necessary reminder: you are inherently valuable. You are more than enough. You are worthy of so much beauty.
Available on Audible for *free*. Enjoy!
winter’s wrapping up with a camera roll full of moments like these - and with a @jonathanredford around, that means an extravagance of joy in every season.
