About Spaceboy Studio
Spaceboy Studio is a production company focused on scripted drama and comedy.
We're funded by Screen Australia's 2023 Enterprise program, to build our growing slate of long-form projects. We're committed to telling attention-grabbing stories in accessible and entertaining ways.
Our feature film KEEP WALKING, is in accelerated development through Screen NSW's Short to Feature Fast Track, with EP Liz Watts.
Our short film VOICE ACTIVATED, about a stutterer forced to cooperate with a voice-activated car, was an official selection of the 2023 Tribeca Festival and won 12 awards at festivals across the globe. It won Best Short Film Production at the 2023 Screen Producers of Australia Awards. The short is available on YouTube via Omeleto.
In 2021 our instagram and Tik Tok series LOVE BUG, funded by Screen Australia, reached over 2.5 million views on TikTok and was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild award for best screenplay for a Web Series.
Through a Black List Initiative we produced a proof of concept short,
MY SUMMER IN THE HUMAN RESISTANCE, which premieres internationally at the 2023 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Yingna Lu
Producer
Yingna Lu is a creative producer with a background in advertising. She co-founded Spaceboy Studios with Steve Anthopoulos, which received Screen Australia Enterprise funding in 2023.
Lu’s first gig was with Bill Leimbach, working in feature development and music management for Lime Cordiale. From there, Lu produced scripted digital shows for ABC and Foxtel with Matilda and Bryan Brown and numerous Vimeo Staff Pick videos, including music clips for Rüfüs Du Sol, SBCR and short film We’re All Going to Die. Lu was among Screen Producers Australia’s Ones to Watch in 2016, winning Screen Australia’s $20,000 screen Internship.
Her 2017 short Tangles and Knots, directed by Renée Petropoulos, was selected for Berlinale, SXSW, Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival. Her 2022 short Voice Activated, written and directed by Anthopoulos, premiered internationally in Tribeca, was nominated for an AACTA and won Short Film Production of the Year at the 2023 SPA Awards. Her other short-form credits include My Summer in the Human Resistance, Science+, Love Bug and Atomic Love, and she was an assistant producer on SBS’s New Gold Mountain.
Lu produced the ABC’s AACTA-nominated second season of The PM’s Daughter with Fremantle, and is now in development on the Spaceboy slate including feature Keep Walking (w/d Petropoulos, EP Liz Watts), supported by Screen NSW’s Short to Feature Fast Track initiative.
Steve Anthopoulos
Writer, Development Producer
Steve is a writer, development producer and co-founder of Spaceboy Studio, working in scripted drama.
His short film VOICE ACTIVATED premiered at the Sydney Film Festival, was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival, and has won 12 awards at film festivals around the globe including Best Short Production at the Screen Producers Australia awards.
In 2022 he wrote, directed and produced MY SUMMER IN THE HUMAN RESISTANCE,a proof of concept short made through The Black List / Hornitos ‘Take Your Shot’ initiative. It had its international premiere at the 2023 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
He’s directed ads for Ausfilm, Netflix and Staples, was an Oxbelly 2024 Episodic Writer's program fellow, and a participant of the inaugural 2024 Black List Projects Lab.
Spaceboy Studio is run on Gadigal Land. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and custodians of the lands on which we work and pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. Australia always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
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