Everyone We Know is the brainchild of writer/director Thomas Wilson-White and producer Lizzie Cater.
Our feature film THE GREENHOUSE premiered at BFI: Flare 2021 and won the Audience Choice Award at Mardi Gras Film Festival and Best Film at Gold Coast Film Festival, and is currently streaming on Netflix. Our short film ST. AUGUSTINE premiered in competition at MIFF 2019 and a feature version is currently in development. We are also developing the 10 x 30-minute dramedy SICK TO DEATH, supported by Screen Australia and Create NSW, and a co-production with Easy Tiger.
We care deeply about representing the stories and voices of marginalised people and pride ourselves on inclusive and positive practices and processes.
Everyone We Know acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. Sovereignty was never ceded.
LIZZIE CATER
Lizzie Cater is a creative producer and emerging writer and director.
Lizzie’s debut feature film, THE GREENHOUSE, was written and directed by her close collaborator and creative partner Thomas Wilson-White. The film premiered at BFI: Flare, and won the Audience Choice Award at the Mardi Gras Film Festival, Best Film at The Gold Coast and Melbourne Queer Film Festivals, and Best Director at The Australian Directors Guild Awards in 2021. The film is distributed by Bohemia Media in the UK, Pivot Pictures in Australia, and is currently streaming on Netflix ANZ.
Her short film credits include Thomas Wilson-White’s ST. AUGUSTINE, which premiered in Official Competition at Melbourne International Film Festival; and BIRDIE, written and directed by Shelly Lauman, which premiered Internationally at Toronto International Film Festival, then screened at Melbourne International Film Festival and AFI FEST. BIRDIE was one of the first short-form projects acquired by Fox Searchlight and is streaming on their YouTube platform.
For television, Lizzie is developing several original concepts independently under her company Everyone We Know and as part of her role as development producer at Easy Tiger productions (COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS, THE TWELVE). These include SICK TO DEATH, created and written by Thomas Wilson-White; MIRRORBALL, created by Hannah Lehmann; and SHADE, created by Gemma Bird Matheson.
Lizzie is developing her sophomore feature film, MELALEUCA, with writer and director Jessica Barclay Lawton. Based on the short film ZEF which premiered on Nowness and has reached over 2.5 million views, the feature participated in the TIFF Filmmakers Lab 2021 and has received development support from Screen Australia. Lizzie is also developing Thomas Wilson-White’s second feature WILDFLOWERS.
As writer and director, Lizzie’s debut short film CIRCE screened at GRRL HAUS Best of 2021 in Berlin and Video Art Experimental Film Festival in New York, and her short films PRECIOUS THINGS and SARA were both finalists in Melbourne Queer Film Festival’s Pitch Pleeze! Program in 2021 and 2022 respectively. She has directed short documentary pieces for social media monoliths VICE and Pedestrian.TV.
In 2023 Lizzie was one of thirteen filmmakers selected for the inaugural Platform Lab, run by Sydney Film Festival and For Films Sake, where she was teamed with people she had never collaborated with before and developed and pitched a new project in less than five days. She was one of two practitioners selected for the 2022 Emerging Producer Placement, run by Screen NSW, and in 2019 she was selected as One To Watch by Screen Producers Australia. Prior to this, Lizzie was provided a post production placement with FremantleMedia in 2018 and a producer’s attachment with Jan Chapman in 2014, both under the Screen Australia Gender Matters equity initiative.
THOMAS WILSON-WHITE
Thomas is an award-winning director and screenwriter.
He wrote the highly anticipated HEARTBREAK HIGH reboot for Netflix ANZ and Fremantle, which was #1 in Australia and top 10 in 45 other countries within a week of its release. He is currently writing a one hour drama for Paramount+, his second feature film WILDFLOWERS with script editor Anna Seifert-Speck (Ammonite, Supernova, Gods Own Country) and developing a slate of television projects.
His debut feature film THE GREENHOUSE premiered at BFI: Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival and Frameline. It won Best Direction in a Feature Film (budget under $1M) at the 2021 Australian Directors Guild awards, multiple Best Film awards and the Audience Choice Award at 2021 Mardi Gras Film Festival. The Greenhouse was then acquired by Netflix ANZ.
Thomas is the creator, writer and executive producer of his autobiographical TV series SICK TO DEATH with the support of Screen Australia and Screen NSW and in collaboration with Rhapsody Films. He is also co-writing The Rock Eisteddfod Film with Yve Blake (Fangirls) for Aquarius Films (Lion, Dirt Music) directed by Alethea Jones.
He is a graduate of the VCA and AFTRS, where he completed his Masters of Screen Arts in 2017, specialising in queer theory and the future of queer stories on screen, something he is wildly passionate about. His short film BACK TO EARTH played at festivals around the world and is currently on ABC iView. ST. AUGUSTINE, a short proof of concept, premiered in competition at MIFF 2019 and can be viewed online at Film Shortage.
He is repped by Mollison Keightley (Aus) and Cullen Conly (Mosaic) and Mark Ross (Paradigm) in the US.