Producer Bio

Founder and Producer

Monique de Groot (BMedia) was recognised as the “Breakthrough Filmmaker” from the State of New South of Wales by the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) and the Motion Picture Association of Australia (MPAA). She has had a long association with, and mentorship from Al Clark and Andrena Finlay, producers of some of Australia’s most successful films. Monique was one of few creative teams to be selected to participate in SPAA’s international film financing market, and Aurora - an intensive one year feature film script development program for screenwriting. Through this initiative, she was mentored by American producer Christine Vachon and Syd Field, leading screenwriting consultant and author of “Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting”.

Monique has been backed by the Australian Government film funding bodies, where they have supported her film projects in development as well as her as an individual. She was one of few in the country selected for a competitive Screen Australia talent grant for an industry placement at a Los Angeles production company, and one of eight global filmmakers selected for the Women in Screen Workshop, New York 2021.

Monique travelled to Mexico City several years ago knowing that the her first debut feature project, required not only Mexican finance but local profile and identity, so that when the time came to make it, there was an infrastructure ready to implement. As a young woman airlifted into an alien world on her own, and initially unable to speak more than the crudest Spanish - she has not only emerged intact but has flourished in the process. Her thoroughness, perseverance, dedication and discipline have yielded rewards.

Monique has already set out on her journey - her mission - and has shown the resolution, resourcefulness and application to continue it by working on dynamic independent feature films for an international market across Australia, Mexico and the United States - to which she holds permanent residency.