LUMILA FILMS

Lumila is an Australia-based production company specialising in the development and production of quality screen content aimed at a broad female-skewed audience.

Lumila most recently produced, Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black. The film, set in 1959 Sydney, celebrated women across multiple generations. Released through Sony Pictures in 2018, it became the highest grossing Australian film of the year and the most nominated at the AFI/AACTA Awards (Aussie Oscars). The spin off series, produced for Australian broadcaster, ABC, dropped on ABCivew June 2024.

Lumila’s current slate includes a true-based spy thriller about WWII heroine Nancy Wake, and Canary Highway a girls-night-out dramedy.

ALLANAH ZITSERMAN
Creative Director, Lumila Films

Allanah is an award winning scriptwriter and independent film producer. Shortly after graduating University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 1998, Allanah took a production job on Strange Planet (1999) starring Naomi Watts, and fell in love with filmmaking. A year later, she produced and penned her debut feature film Russian Doll (2000) starring Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and David Wenham (Lion). The project garnered her the 2000 AACTA/AFI Best Original Screenplay Award. She followed this by scripting and producing the black comedy Horseplay (2003) starring Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Allanah then worked in script development in London, before returning to Australia in 2007. The same year, driven by her passion for promoting and celebrating Australian screen content, she founded the Dungog Film Festival (aka Australia’s Sundance). While running the festival from 2008 until 2012, Allanah created the script development program "In The Raw", which saw many of its projects made including Last Cab to Darwin,  Sleeping Beauty, Strangerland starring Nicole Kidman and Little Death. During this time, she also founded a film distribution company that championed local independent films and released the controversial smash hit The Combination. 

In 2017, Allanah returned to film production with Ladies in Black. The critically and commercially lauded film is now considered an Australian classic. A spin-off series of the film, executive produced by Allanah, and produced for ABCiview was released in June 2024.