Cate Blanchett is an internationally acclaimed actor and producer. Her many diverse screen credits include roles in FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, BLACK BAG, RUMOURS, THE NEW BOY, TÁR, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, OCEAN’S 8, CAROL, BLUE JASMINE, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, I’M NOT THERE, NOTES ON A SCANDAL, THE AVIATOR, THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, ELIZABETH, MRS. AMERICA and DISCLAIMER. She hold numerous awards including two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs and three SAG Awards.

Blanchett has headed juries at Cannes, Venice, and Poland’s Camerimage festivals, and has twice won the Volpi Cup for Best Performance at the Venice Film Festival. Other accolades include a BFI Fellowship, Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film, Honorary Cesar, and International Goya, Chaplin, AACTA and Donostia Awards. She has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, Companion of the Order of Australia, and received Honorary Doctorates from the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and Macquarie University.

For Dirty Films Blanchett produced and appeared in Warwick Thornton’s award-winning THE NEW BOY. She produced Christos Nikou’s Apple Original Films feature FINGERNAILS, with Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy Allen White, and Noora Niasari’s award-winning debut feature SHAYDA, starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Other producing credits with Dirty Films include Carol, TÁR, APPLES, MRS. AMERICA and STATELESS. She created and produced the award-winning podcast CLIMATE OF CHANGE, and produced EVOLVER, a VR interactive experience which was selected for the first ever Immersive Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Blanchett co-leads the PROOF OF CONCEPT development program, supporting filmmakers who amplify the voices of women, trans, and non-binary people, as well as leading the DISPLACEMENT FILM FUND, which empowers refugee and displaced filmmakers. She is a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, a member of The Earthshot Prize Council, and the inaugural Ambassador for the Wakehurst Millennium Seed Bank. She serves on the board of the UK’s National Theatre, is a lifetime member of the Australian Conservation Foundation, and strongly supports the Actors Benevolent Fund, SAG-AFTRA Foundation, and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. She is also Patron of the Sydney Film Festival and NIDA Foundation, the drama school at which she trained.

From 2008 to 2013, Blanchett ran Australia’s de facto national theatre, the Sydney Theatre Company, as co Artistic Director and co CEO, alongside Upton.

Andrew Upton is a writer, producer and director of film, television and theatre and a co-Founder and partner of Dirty Films. From 2008 to 2012, he was co-CEO and co-Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company (STC), alongside Cate Blanchett, and sole Artistic Director from 2013 to 2015. During this time he programmed and oversaw annual seasons of productions across four Sydney venues, as well as national and international touring in Europe and the USA (including his adaptations of Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA and THE PRESENT on Broadway, co-adaptation and translation of THE MAIDS, and as director of Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT. Leading Australia’s largest performing arts company he also advocated for sustainability and co-led the transformation of the company’s home base to accommodate Australia’s second-largest rooftop solar array, while co-leading the award-winning Greening the Wharf sustainability program and pioneering in-school professional learning development programmes. For the National Theatre (UK), Upton was responsible for adaptations of Maxim Gorky’s Philistines and CHILDREN OF THE SUN, Bulgakov’s THE WHITE GUARD and Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Upton was an executive producer of STATELESS, a six-part limited Netflix Original series, created and produced by Dirty Films and Matchbox Pictures for the ABC and Netflix, which won 13 AACTA Awards. He produced Warwick Thornton’s THE NEW BOY which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, and Christos Nikou’s FINGERNAILS, featuring Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed, and has executive produced Nikou’s APPLES, which premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2020, Noora Niasari’s debut feature film, SHAYDA, which premiered (and won the Audience Award) at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Under the auspices of Dirty Films, Upton executive produced CAROL, LITTLE FISH, THE TURNING and TRUTH. He also co-created and executive produced the Audible Original podcast series, CLIMATE OF CHANGE with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy.

Coco Francini is an Emmy-nominated producer and a partner at Dirty Films, alongside Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton. She recently produced Christos Nikou’s Fingernails, featuring Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed, and has executive produced Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari’s feature debut Shayda, starring Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, which premiered in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance this past year and went on to win the Audience Award. Previous to her work with Dirty Films, Coco executive produced Mrs. America for FX Networks, written by Mad Men alum Dahvi Waller. The show premiered in April 2020 and received ten Emmy nominations, including Best Limited Series, Outstanding Writing, and acting nominations for Blanchett, Margo Martindale, and Tracey Ullman, as well as an Emmy win for Uzo Aduba. Coco is also a frequent collaborator of Quentin Tarantino. Beginning with Django Unchained and then on The Hateful Eight where she oversaw the global 70MM roadshow tour and the soundtrack/score that won a long-deserved Academy Award for Ennio Morricone. A graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Francini earned her master's from the elite Peter Stark Producing Program at USC.