Full Name
Rebecca Summerton
Title
Principal & Producer
Company
Closer Productions
Biography
Rebecca is a producer and co-owner of the award-winning screen production company Closer Productions. Her feature film credits include 52 TUESDAYS, which won the directing award for World Cinema at Sundance and the Crystal Bear at Berlinale, and feature documentary SAM KLEMKE’S TIME MACHINE which premiered at Sundance and in Official Selection at HotDocs and Rotterdam and won. Her most recent feature, ANIMALS, is an official Irish/Australian co-production based on the acclaimed novel, premiered at Sundance 2019.

For television, Rebecca has made numerous documentaries including Dendy Award-winning I WANT TO DANCE BETTER AT PARTIES and 3-part arts series HANNAH GADSBY’S OZ. Her television drama credits include the 6-part series F*!#ING ADELAIDE, which premiered at Series Mania and was the most watched ABC iView Original in 2018. She produced THE HUNTING, a 4x60 drama series which premiered on SBS in 2019 becoming SBS’ most successful commissioned drama ever. Rebecca produced AFTERTASTE, a returnable 6 x 30 comedy drama for the ABC. The first season premiered at Berlinale Series Selects and was nominated for a Most Popular Comedy Logie in 2022. Most recently, Rebecca produced the 6 x 30 documentary series EAT THE INVADERS for the ABC, which released in January 2025.
Rebecca Summerton