Original Thinking Productions
Multiplatform storytellers & Original content generators
“Original Thinking Productions aims to forge provocative and imaginative multiplatform storytelling drawn from a rich creative and research network; to bring to life bold, meaningful and enduring stories for our time.”
IN DEVELOPMENT
Australian Traitor
DRAMA
Kindred by Kate Legge
MOVIE ADAPTATION
ABOUT
Margot O’Neill
Founder, Original Thinking Productions
Until 2020, Margot worked as an award-winning journalist and author with Australia’s public broadcaster, the ABC, where she reported for a variety of programs including its leading investigative show, 4 Corners. She also worked for four years in Washington DC in a career that’s spanned coverage of military coups, politics, national security, climate change, the crisis in aged care, public trust in democracy and data privacy. Margot was also a Journalist Fellow with the University of Oxford.
Awards
Margot has won two Walkley Awards including for Best Investigative Journalism and four Human Rights awards. She was also nominated three times for a Logie.
Documentary
Margot originated and reported a one-hour documentary for ABC TV on artificial intelligence, The AI Race.
Book
Her book Blind Conscience described the politicians, doctors, lawyers and other citizens who stood against the populist tide to protest Australia’s harsh asylum seeker detention policies. It won the National Human Rights Award for Best Non-Fiction 2009 and was short-listed for the inaugural John Button Prize.