Alisha Hnatjuk {pronounced 'nar-ti-yook'} is a writer/director/producer based in Naarm (Melbourne).

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Most recently, Alisha took part in the Neighbours attachment program, directing four episodes in its final season (Ten, Amazon Prime). She's also written on two seasons of 'Five Bedrooms' (Paramount+, Peacock & BBC), and has participated in writers' rooms as a development room writer.

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Alisha won the 2021 Flickerfest Emerging Female Director award for her narrative short film ‘Jean’. The film also screened at Palm Springs International ShortFest, HollyShorts Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Direction in a Short Film at the Australian Directors' Guild Awards in 2021. Her latest short, 'Mira's Daughter', premiered at MIFF 2022 and qualified for the MIFF Accelerator Lab.

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Alisha is a producer on AACTA-nominated feature film 'My First Summer' (2019), currently streaming on Stan. She worked as a producer for Emmy-nominated production house Break Thru Films in New York and was associate producer on US feature film ‘The Light of the Moon’ (2016), winner of the 2017 SXSW Audience Choice Award. Alisha has also produced branded content across the US, UK, France, Mexico and Australia, working with a number of high-profile clients, including Sony Playstation, Sony Music, Tourism Australia and Buzzfeed.

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In 2017, she was one of fifteen emerging female television screenwriters selected for Screen Australia's 'Smart For a Girl' screenwriting development program.

Before embarking on a career in film and television, Alisha worked as a corporate lawyer. She's also been a waitress, bar-tender, commercial Christmas tree decorator, receptionist, retail assistant, babysitter and children's party coordinator. The daughter of Malaysian-Chinese and Croatian immigrants, Alisha spent most of her childhood in pre-gentrified Richmond, and school holidays in the dodgy part of Heidelberg West. ​​​​

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