About

We work with the best creative talent from across the globe to realise compelling storytelling across feature narrative, documentary and television.

At the heart of GoodThing’s approach is a dedication to authentic storytelling that blends cinematic excellence with social impact. This ethos has led to collaborations with some of the industry’s most respected partners, including ESPN, Madman Entertainment, Stan, DogWoof and Submarine, ensuring that their films reach broad and engaged audiences. Their slate spans diverse genres, but a recurring theme is a focus on real-world issues explored through a human lens.

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Nick Batzias

Founder / Managing Partner

Award winning producer Nick Batzias has almost twenty years’ experience in the film industry having worked across acquisition, distribution and production. In 2018 he founded GoodThing Productions after over 15 years at Madman Entertainment and as Head of Madman Production Company. GoodThing focuses on the production of Narrative and Factual projects for screens big and small. Recent projects include feature documentaries AACTA award winning The Australian Dream and 2040, as well as Justin Kurzel’s Nitram which was selected in Official Competition at Cannes 2021, winning the award for Best Actor, as well as 8 AACTA Awards, including Best Film.

In addition to Nitram, other recent releases include of narrative feature Nude Tuesday and feature documentaries Greenhouse by Joost and Clean (SxSW 2022, MIFF Closing Night).

Goodthing’s upcoming slate includes features and Television both Narrative and Factual, with past and new creative collaborators.

Virginia Whitwell

Partner & Head of Production

Virginia Whitwell is a highly experienced producer having been in the industry for over twenty five years. She is the Head of Production and Partner at Good Thing Productions after being Head of Production at Madman Production Company. She has produced many award winning scripted and factual projects including Nitram (Justin Kurzel), Nude Tuesday (Armagan Ballantyne), The Australian Dream (Daniel Gordon), 2040 (Damon Gameau). Hailing from the UK, she has worked on numerous productions all over the world. Her extensive production experience includes projects for Warner Bros, HBO, Lucasfilm, EON, 20^th Century Fox and Universal.

Charlotte Wheaton

Head of Factual

Charlotte Wheaton is a Melbourne-based documentary producer renowned for her compelling, character-driven storytelling. Her diverse portfolio encompasses a range of impactful and engaging projects that have resonated with audiences both locally and internationally. In 2023, Charlotte produced “Australia’s Open”, a feature documentary that chronicles the evolution of the Australian Open tennis tournament, highlighting its cultural significance and the broader social issues it reflects.

Her body of work includes producing Justin Kurzel’s “Ellis Park” (2024) on acclaimed musician Warren Ellis, “Clean” (2022), which premiered at SXSW, a documentary offering insight into the world of trauma cleaning. Charlotte’s extensive experience also spans television, where she has served as a producer and line producer on various series, including “Shark Week” (2009–2019), Mark Burnett’s Blockbuster series The Bible (2012) and “Filthy Rich & Homeless” (2017).

Rhian Skirving

Writer, Director, Producer

Rhian is an experienced writer, producer and director with a diverse body of work and a love of observational documentaries. She first joined forces with GoodThing in 2020 to create OFF COUNTRY, following the lives of Indigenous scholarship students through a year boarding at Geelong Grammar School. Rhian now works across the factual slate as a writer, producer and director, most recently producing VOLCANO MAN and co-directing GREENHOUSE BY JOOST.

In earlier work Rhian produced MY MOTHER’S LOST CHILDREN for ABC and BBC Storyville and OUTBACK RABBIS for SBS’s Untold Australia, together with Lizzette Atkins.

Directing highlights include the AACTA nominated MATILDA AND ME for ABC, feature doc ROCK N ROLL NERD charting Tim Minchin’s meteoric rise to comic superstar and ABC’s THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS exploring the science of altruism, winning the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism.

Anna Charalambous

Assistant Producer

Anna is an emerging Melbourne based Producer with a focus on impact through story. Anna has produced a range of short films and documentaries which have featured in festivals around Australia. Anna has worked on Australian feature films Paper Champions and The Fort. Her short films include I Don’t Speak (Winner Best Female Filmmaker Rode Reel 2019), The King of Frankston (2019) (MDFF, MWFF) the VICE originals Party In The Back and TIKTOK Series Suburban Legends. Passionate about social impact through story telling Anna’s experience also sits across Impact on projects like 2040 and Regenerating Australia.