Brietta Hague is an Australian screenwriter and director with a background in both narrative and documentary filmmaking.

Brietta’s debut narrative film Baltasar, which she wrote, directed and shot in Spain, premiered at the 2021 Melbourne International Film Festival where it won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado award for best short film.

The film, which portrayed a day in the life of a Senegalese migrant in Barcelona, was named best film and best screenplay at the St Kilda film festival which also named Brietta best director. 

The film screened at festivals around the world and in 2022 the Australian Directors’ Guild awarded her Best Director (short film).

Among her current scripted projects, Brietta is set to direct the feature narrative Uplift Kabul  based on the true story of an Afghan athlete escaping Afghanistan before the country falls under Taliban rule. The film is written by Brietta and will be produced by the acclaimed Causeway Films, supported in development by Screen Australia and Screen NSW.

In 2026 Brietta wrote and directed Patron Saint, a short drama shot in NSW to be released in 2027.

After studying journalism, playwriting and performance at Charles Sturt University, Brietta worked in casting for film productions including Spielberg’s The Pacific and Gavin Hood’s Wolverine. She then moved into journalism and documentary production.

For over a decade, Brietta was a roving director and producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, creating documentaries on diverse subjects; from climate change in Antarctica to the Mediterranean refugee crisis, Romani communities and Saudi social taboos.

Brietta was based in Spain for three years, freelancing as a journalist for ABC News, BBC News, Al Jazeera English, Atlantic media and Slate magazine. She produced TV reports and wrote features about some of the biggest issues and events in Europe, from terrorist attacks in France and Spain to Catalonia’s separatist movement. She also covered unique social, political and cultural stories in Morocco, Gibraltar, Côte d’Ivoire, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Estonia.  

Brietta’s documentaries have been shortlisted for a mid year Walkley award, a UN Media Peace award, an AIDC award and in 2024 she won an Australian Director’s Guild award for her documentary Not In My Name.

In 2025 Brietta co-founded Finestra Films, a production company producing global documentaries for broadcast and VoD. Upcoming films from Taiwan and Palau to be released in late 2026.