Greer Simpkin joined Bunya Productions as Producer and Head of Television in March 2015 after many years working in editorial and production roles in broadcasting – ABC (Australia) and Channel 4 (UK).   Since joining Bunya, Greer has produced the award-winning television drama series  Mystery Road  (series 1 and 2) and the award-winning feature films  Sweet Country and Goldstone.  Greer was an Executive Producer on the feature film  Jasper Jones.  She was a producer on the feature film, High Ground, starring Simon Baker which screened in a Gala Presentation at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival. Greer is currently producing Ivan Sen’s Loveland and Leah Purcell’s The Drovers Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson.

Greer has also produced a number of documentaries including The Troublesome Priest  for the ABC, the VR film Every King Tide  for SBS and the drama/doc series Blue Water Empire  for the ABC as well as the feature documentary  Sanctuary,  which received a Special Mention and came fourth place in the Audience Award at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival.  She has most recently produced the feature documentary  The Leadership  (one of 6 Good Pitch Australia finalists in 2016).

Greer was Deputy Head of Fiction at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 5 years, where she was instrumental in commissioning  a large slate of new dramas and narrative comedies and was  an  Executive Producer of  The Code, The Secret River, Parer’s War, Serangoon Road and Hiding.

Accolades

David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin and David Tranter and Warwick Thornton
Best Feature Film, 2017

Sweet Country

Best Feature Film, 2017

Sweet Country

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2017 Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in the uncompromising outback of the Northern Territory, Australia…

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Films

The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson
2021

The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson

Australia
2021

The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson

Molly Johnson’s husband is away droving sheep, leaving her alone to care for their four children in the remote Snowy Mountains. Despite being heavily pregnant,…

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High Ground
2020

High Ground

Australia
2020

High Ground

In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the…

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Sweet Country
2017

Sweet Country

Australia
2017

Sweet Country

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2017 Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in the uncompromising outback of the Northern Territory, Australia…

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