hey, I’m Rachel ross, writer/director
I'm passionate about telling stories that feel authentic and raw - the kind that explore our messy humanity with both heart and humour. It's about capturing those moments where vulnerability becomes power.
Short credits include Best Screenplay Nominee at 2019 Show Me Shorts Film Festival for comedy piece 'NUMBER TWO,’ and 2017’s Melbourne International Film Festival and New Zealand International Film Festival selection for short film 'HAVE YOU TRIED, MAYBE, NOT WORRYING?’
In 2024, I was selected for a TV Writer's Attachment with Roadshow Productions, funded by Screen New South Wales, Australia. I was selected for the 2020 Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator and was nominated for Outstanding Newcomer at the 2020 New Zealand Women In Film and Television Awards. In 2019, I received a New Zealand Film Commission Funding Grant, 'He Kauahi Catalyst' to create short film 'EMBER' (formerly ‘GREEN’) and develop feature screenplay 'EXHALE.' In 2017, I was awarded a New Zealand Film Commission Talent Development Grant, which supported an intensive eight-week course at the New York Film Academy to develop my feature screenplay, 'EXHALE.' Additionally, I was selected for the 2017 Accelerator Lab in Melbourne for my short film 'HAVE YOU TRIED, MAYBE, NOT WORRYING?'
Current projects include short film ‘EMBER,’ and feature films ‘EXHALE’ and ‘GOOD GIRL GRETA.’