Gold Coast Assistant Director Nerida Groth has been named the 2025 recipient of the Natalie Miller Fellowship, considered one of Australia’s most prestigious honours recognising feminine management and entrepreneurship within the display screen business.
The announcement was made by Natalie Miller herself on the Australian Worldwide Film Conference (AIMC) held on the Gold Coast, reflecting the area’s rising status as Australia’s “Goldywood.”
Nerida is the co-founder of Generate Crew, a Gold Coast–based mostly social enterprise devoted to strengthening and sustaining the crews behind the cameras.
Her Fellowship challenge continues Generate Crew’s mission to construct a more healthy, extra sustainable, and people-first tradition inside the display screen business, positioning Queensland as a nationwide chief in crew improvement.
With greater than 15 years of expertise on main worldwide productions filmed regionally and overseas, together with Elvis, Anaconda, Aquaman, and Pirates of the Caribbean, Nerida has seen first-hand the pressures confronted by crew on large-scale movie and tv productions.
The Fellowship will enable her to strengthen her management and HR functionality by focused skilled improvement and mentoring.
A key a part of her challenge is formalising the Expertise Growth Officer function, a brand new on-set place designed to make sure crew coaching, retention, {and professional} development are correctly valued and prioritised throughout productions.
Nerida may even journey to Hollywood to fulfill with main studios and advocate for early, strategic funding in native Australian crew improvement.
Her aim is to indicate how planning for coaching in pre-production builds stronger native workforces, helps crew wellbeing, and delivers smoother, extra environment friendly productions.
“I’m honoured to be this yr’s recipient of the Natalie Miller Fellowship,” stated Nerida Groth, Generate Crew Co-Founder and Managing Director.
“It’s a unbelievable alternative to maintain advocating for our world-class movie crews who work so laborious to make the magic occur. Queensland made extra worldwide characteristic movies than every other state final yr. If we need to keep our first-class status, we have to strategically spend money on the event of the crew.”
• Nerida has over 15 years of expertise engaged on main worldwide productions filmed regionally and abroad.
• Queensland produced extra worldwide characteristic movies than every other state final yr, strengthening its display screen business profile.
• The Australian Worldwide Film Conference came about from 27–30 October 2025 on the Gold Coast, the place the Fellowship was formally introduced.
Nerida’s Fellowship challenge goals to formalise the Expertise Growth Officer function on movie units to make sure that crew members obtain the help {and professional} development alternatives they deserve.
Via skilled improvement and mentoring, she is going to develop her management abilities to strengthen crew welfare throughout the business.
The announcement on the AIMC displays the rising nationwide recognition of the Gold Coast as a number one centre for movie manufacturing.
The Fellowship’s give attention to crew sustainability aligns with the growing consideration given to workforce wellbeing throughout the Australian display screen sector.
Generate Crew, based mostly on the Gold Coast and co-founded by Nerida Groth and Louise Hodgson, is dedicated to growing and retaining a robust, sustainable, and inclusive crew workforce for the native display screen business.
The social enterprise continues to play a key function in supporting native professionals behind the scenes.
Nerida’s upcoming skilled improvement and Hollywood conferences will additional her work to strengthen crew improvement and advocate for sustainable manufacturing practices that profit each Queensland and Australia’s display screen business.
