A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT - Short Documentary, Post-Production ~ PRODUCER 

DEDICATED ANIMAL DADS - Documentary Series, Post-Production, Wildbear Entertainment ~ WRITER

BABY ANIMALS DOWN UNDER - Documentary Series, Post-Production, Wildbear Entertainment ~ WRITER

TREASURE HUNTERS DOWN UNDER - Documentary Series, 2025,  Wildbear Entertainment ~ WRITER

TRAIN RESCUE DOWN UNDER - Documentary Series, 2025, Wildbear Entertainment ~ WRITER

ONWARDS & UPWARDS - Factual YA Series, 2023 Inspiring Brighter Futures Foundation ~ WRITER & PRODUCER

WILDLIFE ER - Documentary Series, 2 x Episodes, 2022 WildBear Entertainment ~ WRITER

UNDER THE SEA - Documentary Series, 3 x Episodes, 2022 WildBear Entertainment  ~ WRITER 

GAMIFY - Children's TV Series, 2019 Network 10 ~ WRITER & SEGMENT PRODUCER

TOTALLY WILD - Factual Children's TV Series, 2016-2019 Network 10 ~ WRITER & SEGMENT PRODUCER

BALI NOIR - Feature Film, in Development with Mohworks Films ~ Co-Writer & Co-Producer 

HEARTBREAKER - Feature Film, in Development with Haviland Digital & Marvin the Stage Play ~ WRITER 

TRADWIFE - TV series, in Development with Limina Pictures ~ CREATOR & WRITER 

RETURN OF THE CHAMPION - Short Film, Pre-Production ~ SCRIPT EDITOR

IT'S GIVING - Screen Queensland supported Web Series, Pre-Production ~ PRODUCER & SCRIPT EDITOR 

SPACE/TIME - Feature Film, 2025 Mohworks Films ~ LINE PRODUCER

SOME KIND OF BLUE - Short Film, 2025 Limina Pictures ~ SCRIPT EDITOR

VIV'S SILLY MANGO - ABC & Screen Australia supported Short Film, 2022 ~ PRODUCTION MANAGER

HEART OF GOLD ISFF FESTIVAL TRAILER 2022 ~ PRODUCER 

TALES OF THE NETHERWORLD: KORE - Short Film, 2017 ~ DIRECTOR, WRITER & PRODUCER

EYES OF ARYA - Video Game, 2016 ~ SCRIPT EDITOR

Arika Crotty is a producer and writer with a decade of experience across documentary, scripted drama, and digital and audio mediums. Her credits include work for major Australian networks; Network Ten, ABC, SBS and the Seven Network, and have been distributed intentionally on Prime Video, Discovery UK, National Geographic and Sky Nature. In 2024 she received the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor Creative Fellowship to write a feature screenplay and is currently in development on a drama series with Limina Pictures for which she is attached as creator and writer, and two feature films. She recently travelled to the States to produce “A Significant Development”, a short experimental documentary about AI currently in post-production, this represents her first international co-production. “Space/Time”, an independent feature film she produced in Queensland was released in theatres May 2025.

She loves smart stories with romantic visuals, moral nuance, intellect on display, humour, a preoccupation for industrial and bureaucratic processes, beauty for beauty's sake, films that are very a play,  fun and Big stories.   Accidentally, or not, her work is always somewhere in conversation with the natural world. Inspired by both Gerald Murnane’s intellectual-Australia in his novel “The Plains” and her rural upbringing, Arika’s drama writing addresses the tension between sophisticated borderless narrative and regional storytelling.

SHE LOVES; Claire Denis' films, a sense of occasion, Ben Lerner's novels, Deadwood,  Heat (1995). The Proclaimer's Sunshine on Leigh, Nicole Holofcenor, Luca's Challengers, Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, Nourished by Time, Baz,  Robert Caro’s chef-d'œuvre The Path to Power; the five-volume Lyndon Bains Johnson biography, Bend it Like Beckham, Crimes of the Future, Boubil and Schönberg's Miss Saigon. Seachange, Ken Loach, The Lord of the Rings, Hilton Als, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, Cristian Mungiu's R.M.N, Gavin & Stacey, UK rappers, Scenes from a Marriage (1973), Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human, Sing Street, All that Breathes, The Polyester Podcast, Gerald Murnane's rare Australian mind. Yirinda, Doris Lessing, Alex Cameron, Irma Vep, Donna Tart's A Secret History, Raining on the Rocks by John Williamson, Sunday in the Park with George, True Anon pod, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, deep ecology, Vox Lux, Joanna Hogg, the West Wing, bagpipes and ballads, William T Vollmann, Aldous Harding & Marlon Williams (during & post breakup), Little Women (2019), Firefly, The Secret Life of Us, Geese rock band, Kusk, What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Armando Iannucci, Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm, Middlemarch, The Trip to Italy, Rain and Native American Flutes - Relaxing Music YouTube study playlist, 20th Century Women, Obvious Child, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa, corset-dramas, Station Eleven, Magan-djin based artist Sally Molloy, Peter Pan, A Bigger Splash, Sentimental Garbage pod, James Bridle, Dave, Three Colours: Blue, Anne of Green Gables Megan Follows version, the 2012 documentary Leviathan, Mad Max Fury Road, Full Flower Moon Band, I May Destroy You, Mary Poppins Returns, In Treatment, Logan from Gilmore Girls, The Great Beauty, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story by Todd Haynes, Babyteeth, Under the Skin, The Rest is Entertainment, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 100 gecs, Taylor Swift, Clouds of Sils Maria, A Brighter Summer Day, Princess Diaries, We Are Who We Are, Lipstick Lover ex Janelle, Helen Dewitt, Time Crisis the fortnightly internet radio show hosted by Ezra Koenig and Jake Longstreth, In My Blood it Runs, the John Early shorts of 2015, Speed (1994), The Swan Princess (1994), Blow up the Pokies by The Whitlams, @gendersauce Instagram, Gosford Park, Byung-Chul Han, Magan-djin, Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch, Notting Hill, theory, and that Robbie Williams film with the ape.