Rachel Perkins is a filmmaker with a career spanning documentaries, television drama and movies. Her Australian Aboriginal heritage (Arrernte/Kalkadoon) has inspired much of her work including The Australian Wars documentary series, which she wrote and directed and which was commissioned by SBS and produced by Blackfella Films. Other notable documentary work includes First Australians and Blood Brothers. Her fiction work includes the TV dramas Total Control, Mystery Road and Redfern Now and the movies Jasper Jones, Mabo, Bran Nue Dae, One Night the Moon and Radiance. She spends her time between her traditional country of Mparntwe/ Alice Springs and Sydney.