Carmel Travers(I)

Carmel Travers is an award-winning writer, producer, and director across genres from investigative journalism to children's comedy-drama. She began her career as a Journalist with ABC Australia and went on to become host of the prime night time current affairs programs, This Day Tonight and Nationwide. After several years as a foreign correspondent based in East Africa Carmel established the renowned Australian production and distribution company, Beyond International, which Carmel, taking it from a start-up to a publicly listed $150m company. She formed Energee Entertainment in 1990, a company that developed digital animated technology which grew to become the biggest animation studio in Australia. After a decade she sold Energee Entertainment to Ravensburger Germany and produced a string of award-winning documentaries for the ABC, SBS and the Nine Network. Simultaneously, Carmel went on to become the Network General Manager of News and Current Affairs in 1993 - the first woman in Australia to run a major news organisation. She was then invited to join a small Australian factual production company, Essential Media, as a Partner, Director and Executive Producer in 2010. As Executive Director Carmel co-managed the eventual sale of a large portion of the company to Fremantle Media, upon which Carmel exited to form Pop Entertainment in 2017, which is now rapidly growing a broad factual, scripted, and digital production slate. POP has recently finished production on a CGI animated feature film, My Freaky Family, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival, 2024 and was released theatrically nationwide in Australia and across the globe in 2024. In October 2024, her biographical thriller feature film, The Correspondent, was selected for the Opening Night feature at the Adelaide Film Festival in October, 2024. She is currently in development on the animated series Tilly and the animated movie The ARVEE Chronicles - The Princess of Zan.