Rebecca Barry (Australia)
Co-founder/Director/Producer
Media Stockade

Rebecca Barry is a storyteller, filmmaker and adventurer at heart.

She lives for exceptional stories that make us think again – like her award-winning series Back to Nature. In drama or documentary, as director or producer, her collaborative artistry reveals worlds known and unknown. In 2012 she founded Media Stockade with Madeleine Hetherton-Miau.

She has created critically acclaimed shows for National Geographic, ABC, SBS, Network 10, Netflix, Hulu, BBC, Al Jazeera and more. Her work screens at film festivals globally, including IDFA, HotDocs, FIFO, Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Rebecca is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research explored the dark grey zone of power and ethics in documentary consent processes. She is a certified mental health first aider.