SPA Lifetime Achievement Award to Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger

Producers Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger, founders of Every Cloud Productions, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 22nd Annual Screen Producers Australia Awards next week.

Founded in 2009 Every Cloud Productions built a platform for the development of female-led stories with content across ABC, SBS, Seven Network, Nine Network, Stan, and Acorn TV.

They co-created and produced three seasons of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, which has sold to more than 170 territories around the world.

Both are also responsible for creating the AACTA Award-winning Deadlock, Indigenous drama  The Gods of Wheat Street, plus Christmas Ransom, Newton’s Law, A Sunburnt Christmas, Eden and the reboot of  SeaChange (with ITV).

The Award is a celebration of Deb and Fiona’s long-standing partnership and a testament to power of female-led businesses.

The awards will be presented at The Star Gold Coast on Thursday,21 March as part of Screen Forever 38.

As a creator, producer, and writer, Deb has helped create some of Australia’s best-loved productions bringing joy to audiences for decades. Before co-founding Every Cloud Productions, Deb began her career at Crawford Productions in Melbourne, later becoming Head of Drama for Artist Services and co-founder of CoxKnight Productions which created feature film, Dead Letter Office, three seasons of ABC series, SeaChange, Ten Network drama series CrashBurn, and children’s series Worst Best Friends.

With over three decades of experience and talent for balancing creative, entrepreneurial and production expertise, Fiona, also, is a powerhouse producer, and her co-creations include two seasons of the spin-off series Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries as well as the successful theatrical feature Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears.

Fiona’s early career included working with feature director Paul Cox and Crawford Productions before producing her first series for SBS television, Ark of Gondwana, and later the 13-part ABCTV series Mercury. Fiona’s long-standing collaboration with Deb Cox began when she produced the TV series CrashBurn and later was the executive producer and producer of two seasons of East of Everything. Other Producing credits include acclaimed telemovies The Society Murders, The Informant, Small Treasures and the award-winning feature films Only the Brave and the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection Mallboy.