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

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She’s currently undertaking a director’s attachment at Neighbours where she’ll direct her first half hour of television. She's written on two seasons of 'Five Bedrooms' (Paramount+, Peacock & BBC), and has been involved in writer's rooms for Paper Dolls (Helium) and Framed (Princess Pictures). 

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Alisha was awarded Outstanding Emerging Female Director at Academy® Award-qualifying Flickerfest International Film Festival 2021 for her narrative short film ‘Jean’ (2020). 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 her for the MIFF Accelerator Lab for emerging Australian directors.

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Alisha is a producer on 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 ROAR 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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