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 

RETURN TO WORK - Screen Queensland funded Short Film, Pre-Production ~ PRODUCER 

RETURN OF THE CHAMP  - Short Film, 2025 ~ SCRIPT EDITOR & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

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

A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT - Short Documentary, 2025 ~ 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

Arika Crotty is a screenwriter and producer of documentary, drama and audio. She produced the Logie-winning Network Ten series Totally Wild and the feature film Space/Time (2025), which reached #3 on Apple TV Australia. Her credits span major Australian networks - Network Ten, ABC, SBS, and Seven - with international distribution on Apple TV, Prime Video, Discovery UK, and National Geographic. She is currently in development on two feature films: a historical drama with BAFTA-winning UK collaborators, on which she is attached as writer, and an Australian–Indonesian drama that she is co-writing and co-producing. In 2024 she received the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor Creative Fellowship.

She loves smart stories with lush visuals, intellect on display, humour, a preoccupation for industrial or bureaucratic processes, beauty for beauty's sake, films that are very a play,  Big dumb moments when films announce themselves. She loves literature as much as films (actually more, sorry), and usually tries to drag one toward the other. Accidentally, or not, her work is always somewhere in conversation with the natural world. 

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 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, Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human, Sing Street, The Polyester Podcast, Gerald Murnane's rare Australian mind. Yirinda, Doris Lessing, Alex Cameron, Raining on the Rocks by John Williamson, Sunday in the Park with George, 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, 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, ceremony, Magan-djin based artist Sally Molloy, Peter Pan and Wendy, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, 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, Mary Poppins Returns, Logan from Gilmore Girls, The Great Beauty, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story by Todd Haynes, Babyteeth, Under the Skin, Becoming the People with Prentice Hemphill, Back from the Borderline, 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, Time Crisis the fortnightly internet radio show hosted by Ezra Koenig and Jake Longstreth, Audre Lorde and her peerless biographer Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 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.