Nadine Bates is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Like A Photon Creative, an international award-winning production company based in Australia. Nadine has written and produced for the likes of Sesame Street USA, Disney Junior, the ABC, Universal Content Group and Macmillan Publishing.
Since 2018, Nadine (through Like A Photon Creative) has produced eight animated theatrical feature films that have sold in over 179 territories globally, three hypercasual games, two television series, 75 digital picture books and five apps, and pumped over $52 million through the screen economy in Queensland, Australia. Now in production on her ninth animated feature film, Like A Photon Creative has partnered with Crayola Studios to bring to life the wildly successful HarperCollins book Maggie and Abby’s Neverending Pillowfort.
Nadine was named among MIPCOM’s “Ones to Watch, Producer” in 2020, awarded as a co-recipient of QUT’s “Outstanding Entrepreneurial Alumni” in 2023, and won three Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts Davey Awards. Currently, she sits on several industry advisory panels, is regularly invited to judge the International Emmy Awards, and is completing her PhD in Children’s Screen Content (very very slowly).
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
