Mags Scholes
Screen Executive
A Senior Media Executive and Line Producer with a 25 year eclectic mix of production, on set and agency experience as Head of Production, Head of Content, Production Executive, Producer and Director.
Mags has extensive experience in international production with bases in Australia, UK and Singapore and understands differing global financial, production and delivery structures across streaming, linear and theatrical platforms.
She's worked with a range of Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy award winners across a range of disciplines from Directors, Producers, Craft Technicians and Cast and lead award-winning production across Asia, Africa, UK, Australia, the Pacific Islands, the US and Canada, as well as working on the ground in Central America and Europe. She's also boom operated for 5 Oscar winning Sound Recordists.
She sits on the jury for the Asian Academy Creative Awards as well as regularly participating on industry panels.
Recent accolades include:
• 2020 AACTA Awards: Australian Academy of Cinematic and Television Arts
Best Documentary Nomination : Brock: Over the Top
• 2019 76th Venice Film Festival Selection
Venice Days: The Great Green Wall
• 2019 Asian Academy Creative Awards
Best Regional Documentary Series: Singapore on Film
• 2019 New York Festivals
History and Society Silver World Medal: China on Film
• 2018 7th China Academy Awards of Documentary Film
Best Foreign Documentary: The Talwars HBO/Star TV
• 2018 Asian Academy Creative Awards
Best Documentary Series: The Talwars HBO/Star TV
As a Fiction Director her short films have screened and sold internationally.
When not working she can be found riding her classic motorcycle to remote destinations or freediving the ocean's depths.
Queensland, Australia
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/magsscholes
