Rachel ross //
writer/director
Originally from New Zealand and now based in New York, Rachel is passionate about telling stories that feel authentic and raw: the kind that explore our messy humanity with both heart and humour.
Her short-form credits include Winner of the People’s Choice Award at 2021 Show Me Shorts Film Festival for short film GREEN, Best Screenplay Nominee at 2019 Show Me Shorts Film Festival for comedy piece NUMBER TWO and 2017’s Melbourne International Film Festival for short film HAVE YOU TRIED, MAYBE, NOT WORRYING?
Rachel is a quarter-finalist for the 2026 Antigravity Academy Screenwriter's Camp for feature screenplay GOOD GIRL GRETA and in 2024, she was selected for a TV Writer’s Attachment with Roadshow Productions, funded by Screen New South Wales, Australia. In 2020, she was selected for the Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator and nominated for Outstanding Newcomer at the 2020 New Zealand Women in Film and Television Awards. In 2019, she received a New Zealand Film Commission funding grant, He Kauahi Catalyst, to create the short film GREEN and develop the feature screenplay EXHALE. In 2017, she was awarded a New Zealand Film Commission Talent Development Grant, supporting an intensive eight-week program at the New York Film Academy to further develop EXHALE. That same year, she was selected for the Accelerator Lab in Melbourne for HAVE YOU TRIED, MAYBE, NOT WORRYING?
Her current projects include proof-of-concept short film GOOD GIRL GRETA and feature films GOOD GIRL GRETA and EXHALE.