Monica Zanetti

Writing

Biography

Monica Zanetti is an award winning Australian screenwriter and director. Her debut feature Skin Deep screened at over eight international film festivals and was honoured at Austin Film Festival with an award for Best Narrative Feature. The film also earned Monica an AWGIE nomination for Best Original Screenplay, a spot on the 25 Screenwriters To Watch list by US MovieMaker Magazine, and was released internationally in 2016. Monica then went on to work in various story rooms before joining the writing team for the Channel 10/Netflix series Sisters. She was a writer/director on the ABC Comedy series Tonightly with Tom Ballard, and wrote an episode for the CJZ series My Life is Murder. Monica's second feature film, Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt), was the first Australian film to ever open the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival and was released in 2020. She was recently selected by Screen NSW for a coveted mentorship with American director Jamie Babbit.

Known For

7.1

Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.

My Life Is Murder

2019Series

7.6

A woman's life is turned upside down when she finds out her father used his sperm in a number of IVF procedures, leading her to track down her newly discovered siblings.

Sisters

2017Series

4.0

While the men are away fighting in WWII, two Women’s Land Army recruits join an Italian immigrant, her Indigenous domestic, and their draft-dodging farmhand to run the family farm – but can the improbable freedom and kinship they find survive beyond the war?

While the Men are Away

2023Series

6.5

School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she's been brought back from the dead to be Ellie's fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the '80s.