Born running.
Sarinah Masukor
Sarinah is a screenwriter and director. Right now, she’s adapting Nicola Moriarty’s bestselling novel, The Fifth Letter, for Jungle Entertainment. She co-wrote the finale of Good Cop Bad Cop (STAN/ROKU/CW) and wrote an episode of the original comedy series Population 11 (STAN). She’s also written episodes of the award winning children’s shows 100% Wolf (ABC) and MaveriX (ABC). In 2021 she received Enterprise People funding from Screen Australia and spent two years working in house at Jungle Entertainment. She received funding to attend the Union Docs documentary lab in New York in 2019.
She directed Sextoy (Flickerfest 2025) and the short documentary Polychromatic (2019), made for Diversity Arts Australia, which screened as part of the Sydney Opera House’s All About Women festival and was Highly Recommended at ReelOzInd.
Freyja Benjamin
Freyja made her feature film debut starring in the independent feature Everything In Between as Liz, a young woman who helps a suicidal teenager find meaning.She has appeared in several short films which have won awards internationally including Big Bad World in which she performed alongside Netflix/TBS star Geraldine Viswanathan. She led in the short film Clarity directed by Chris Sebastian Joys, which was selected to screen at the 51st annual BFI's in London and was presented by Helen Mirren. She has had guest roles on Stan Original Series The Commons as well as Channel Nine's Bite Club.
She has directed music videos for Maia Toakley and Mega Fäuna. Her video for Mega Fäuna’s Desire Lines (SXSW 2024) won best costume at Clipped Music Video festival where it screened as a Top 30 finalist.