LUMILA FILMS

Lumila is an Australia-based production company specialising in the development and production of quality feature films and series aimed at a broad audience.

It 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).

Lumila’s current slate includes a spin-off Ladies in Black series, a true-based spy thriller about WWII heroine Nancy Wake, and Canary Highway a girls-night-out dramedy. See UPCOMING for more details.

ALLANAH ZITSERMAN
Creative Director, Lumila Films

Allanah is an award winning scriptwriter and independent film producer. Her screen career started shortly after graduating University in 1998, when she 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 for a few years 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). 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. In 2017, Allanah returned to film production with Ladies in Black. The critically and commercially lauded film is now considered an Australian classic. Currently Allanah is in active development on the spin-off Ladies in Black series for the ABC and in advanced development on Canary Highway, her feature directorial debut.