MILLIE ON AIR PRODUCTIONS
Millie On Air Productions was founded in 2014 by filmmaker Millie Rose Heywood. Driven, at the time, by a dearth of quality content with women at the helm, the company was formed to remedy this by producing boundary-pushing, socially-relevant entertainment with a powerful female voice.
Their first project Spirit Stones, achieved critical acclaim when it was selected as a finalist in Tropfest 2014. Following this, featurette Girl Falling, after premiering at Revelation Perth International Film Festival in 2018, went on to receive critical acclaim in a strong film festival run around the world.
On January 1st 2021 Millie On Air Productions released web-series Retrograde, an occult drama based in east-Los Angeles. They are currently developing several projects spanning genres and formats, including Australian feature film Unwrapped, in association with Eleven Six Productions.
MILLIE ROSE HEYWOOD
Millie Rose Heywood is a director, writer, and producer whose work moves between festival drama and genre television. Her dark coming-of-age feature By the Fall, co-written with longtime creative partner Amanda Dow, was an Official Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival 2023 and has since been optioned for series development as Among the Giants,
backed by ScreenWest development funding. Her Christmas dramedy feature script
Unwrapped has also been optioned, is in development, and continues to receive festival accolades.
She trained as an actor at NIDA and The Actor's Centre, appearing in productions for ABC and Netflix and in the feature film Convict (dir. George Basha & David Field) before moving behind the camera. Her directorial debut, Spirit Stones, co-written with the late Richard Green, was a Tropfest 2014 finalist. Her featurette Girl Falling (2018) premiered at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival and was named a Programmer's Favorite at the Cannes Short Film Corner before continuing successful international festival run.
Millie co-wrote, produced, and directed the US-based supernatural web series Retrograde (2021), which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying LA International Shorts Festival. She also produced the award-winning short The Interval, directed by Amanda Dow and written by Lloyd J. Schwartz, with Emmy winner Marsha Posner executive producing.
Heywood is currently developing and producing several new projects spanning multiple genres and formats.