The Team

Northern Pictures are global leaders in making impactful factual content and we pride ourselves on the social change our films set out to achieve. For ten years, we have made films that matter and create change.

 THE C WORD is a film our team are passionate about. We believe we have a responsibility as film makers to fact check the stories we’re served up and to advocate for truth.

  • Tosca Looby

    DIRECTOR

    Tosca has been writing and directing high end documentary films for the past two decades and has a Masters in International Journalism. In 2021, in addition to the Rose D’Or nominated archive feature documentary Strong Female Lead, Tosca released the critically acclaimed three-part series, See What You Made Me Do, which won Screen Producer’s of Australia, Australian International Documentary Conference and Asian Academy Awards for Best Factual Series. In 2022, Tosca delivered three part arts series Tiny Oz, for ABC audiences, and a follow up thesis driven series for SBS in 2023, Asking For It, unpacking the issue of sexual consent in Australia. The Guardian has called her work ‘viscerally powerful’.

  • Karina Holden

    PRODUCER

    Karina Holden is a four-time Emmy award winning producer, heading up the Factual department of Northern Pictures (Screen Producer’s Association of Australia’s Production company of the Year in 2022 and Realscreen’s Global 100 in 2022, 2023). Overseeing a slate of diverse programs: from science to society, politics and power – the crux of her work is to create change, truth tell and find unlikely heroes who challenge our perceptions. In 2021, Karina was named the UNESCO Sydney City of Film, film maker of the year as well as being recognised by the Australian Financial Reviews 100 Women of Influence. Prior to film making, she worked in conservation biology and has post graduate qualifications in science with degrees from the University of Sydney and University of Queensland.

  • Rachel Grierson Johns

    EDITOR

    Rachel Grierson-Johns is an Emmy award-winning editor, known for her unique ability to craft powerful stories from the jigsaw of archive – with one eye on history and the other on an unfaltering story arc. With more than 20 years of experience, Rachel has worked on a range of projects, from feature films, music videos to documentary series, earning her both critical and commercial success. She is funny and irreverent and always searching for a crafted, shocking reveal. Rachel has been recognised by the Australian Society of Editors for several years in a row, as one of the Australia’s best non-fiction editors.