TV CAMPAIGNS
FOR AUSTRALIA'S MOST LOVED TV SHOWS
Veialu brings 20 years of experience as an award-winning creative producer, writer, editor, and film director with two of Australia's largest commercial television networks, Nine and Ten.
She has launched several channels at Nine and major shows like Married At First Sight, The Block, Big Miracles, The Voice Australia, Ten’s Station Idents, and more.
SHORT FILM
"BUTTERFLY/BATAPLAI" WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
A Papua New Guinean/American woman challenges her evangelist father's strict rules to find her voice as a makeup artist.
Joint-winner of ‘Best Film’ - 2024 New Zealand International Film Festival
SCREENPLAY + PILOT
HISTORICAL , FEMALE-LED FEATURE & ONE-HOUR PILOT
"Recommend" in script coverage.
WAR DANCER - Written by Veialu Aila-Unsworth
A teenage girl, forced into an arranged marriage, dreams of being a dancer, falls in love and must escape the Japanese invasion of Burma, World War II.
SCREENPLAY
HISTORICAL, INDIGENOUS, FEMALE-LED FEATURE
"Recommend" in script coverage.
THE DEFIANT ONE - Written by Veialu Aila-Unsworth
On a Pacific Island colony, an Indigenous girl accidentally gets her brother arrested and must save him from being executed.
1 of 10 screenplays chosen for The Black List's 2021 CAPE List
Long list, 2023 The Black List x WIF Residency
Round 2, 2022 Sundance Development Track
Special Mention, 2022 UK Online Pitchbox
Quarter Finalist, 2022 Spring Screencraft Fund
FABER ACADEMY
WRITING A NOVEL, FICTION, INDIGENOUS
Veialu was awarded the 2025 Faber Writing A Novel Scholarship. Presented by Australia's leading independent publishing house Allen & Unwin in partnership with the prestigious UK publishers Faber & Faber.
FILM FESTIVAL SCREENER
INDIGENOUS & PASIFIKA FESTIVALS
A passionate advocate for Indigenous cinema, Veialu served as a film screener – evaluating short and feature-length films – for the 2024 and 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts (FestPAC).
MENTOR
ARMED WITH A CAMERA FELLOWSHIP
Veialu was a mentor for the 2023-2024 Armed With A Camera Fellowship (AWC) in Los Angeles, a program run by the pioneering media arts organisation Visual Communications.
For over 20 years, this annual fellowship has supported Asian & Pacific Islander filmmakers who empower communities & challenge perspectives. Veialu is also an AWC alum herself.
INSTAGRAM CREATIVE
SUPPORTING NON-PROFITS + DIVERSE COMMUNITIES
