Giula Sandler

Writer

Giula is an experienced screenwriter, currently working on productions in Australia, the UK, and the USA.

She created and wrote all episodes on The House Across The Street - a 4 x 60’ drama produced by Clapperboard for Channel 5 in the UK. The series just won the 2024 AWGIE Award for Television – Limited Series. It was directed by Dominic Leclerc and starred Shirley Henderson. Giula also co-created and was head writer of Savage River, a six-part drama for Aquarius Films and the ABC (2022).

Giula is developing original TV dramas with EOne/Apple, Aquarius/ABC, Wooden Horse, Cuba Pictures (UK)/Paramount+, Fremantle, and Sixty40. Giula wrote two episodes of White House Farm, a series created by Kris Mrksa for New Pictures (UK) and ITV, and is currently writing for one of their shows.

Other credits include: her AWGIE nominated episode of Grace Beside Me (Magpie Pictures for ABC), episodes for Playmaker Media’s Bloom, and Matchbox Pictures’ Glitch Series 3 (having also written on earlier series of the latter), A Place To Call Home (Seven Productions/ Foxtel), the Blackfella/Werner series Ready for This for the ABC, Wentworth (Fremantle/ Foxtel), Love Child (Playmaker Media/ Nine Network), McLeod’s Daughters (Millennium Television) and Rescue: Special Ops (Southern Star/ Channel 9).

Giula script produced, with David Hannam, the second series of NBCU/Matchbox's Nowhere Boys, which won the 2015 Logie for Most Outstanding Children’s Program and has been nominated for an International Emmy as well as an AACTA award, she also wrote three episodes on Series 3. Giula wrote the anthology feature Little Deaths, (feature length anthology of 11 episodes on a single theme) and it was the winner of 2008 DigiSpaa Award.

Giula studied a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Television at VCA and she completed a Masters in Scriptwriting at AFTRS.

For enquiries regarding Giula Sandler please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199.