Speakers Profile - Eva Orner










Travels From:
North America


In 2008, Melbourne-born Eva Orner won the Oscar for Best Feature Documentary at the 2008 Academy Awards.

Eva is an AFI, Logie and now Oscar-winning Australian producer based in New York, and since relocating from Melbourne in 2004, has produced a run of striking documentaries including this Academy Award winning 'Taxi to the Darkside'

'Highly energetic, terribly creative, addictively engaging and always at work' -Donald Glascoff, Human Rights Lawyer, bank President and Executive Film Producer

'quite amazing for a young woman like this to come to the United States and find herself, purely on the basis of her own talent, on the stage holding an Oscar in such a short space of time' -Sidney Blumenthal
US Film Executive Producer, former aide to Bill Clinton and a widely published journalist.

Eva is an amazingly inspiring Aussie who has found success overseas, has had incredible experiences, and has just been formally recognised for her unique work with the highest industry accolade possible - an Academy Award!

A smart, funny, engaging speaker, Eva complements her talks with fantastic visual and filmic images - not to mention a little golden statue named 'Oscar'.

Presentation Titles:
Inspirational / Motivational, Celebrity / Entertainment, Women in Business, Making it as an Aussie in the US, Making Documentaries, The Film Business