Briege Whitehead

Briege Whitehead is an experienced producer, director and writer, based in Perth, Western Australia. In 2017 she established the production company White Spark Pictures, focused on producing international factual programming and immersive virtual reality (VR) documentaries. Briege is passionate about finding and telling important stories from the world around us. She learned the importance of engaging audiences early on when she had her own weekly radio show as a child. After graduating with a masters’ degree in directing she has gone on to receive critical acclaim as a director and executive producer. Under the White Spark banner, original TV series include Poisonous Liaisons, a 13 x 60 true-crime series, the 12 x 60 natural history series Impossible Planet and she has written and produced on titles that include 72 Dangerous Places to Live and 72 Cutest Animals for National Geographic and Netflix. A pioneering VR producer, Briege is also responsible for the groundbreaking VR hit, The Antarctica Experience. Briege was nominated as a former ‘One to Watch’ by Australia’s Screen Producers’ Association, and in 2019 she won the Channel 7 Western Australian Young Achiever for the Year Award for Innovation for her first VR documentary, The Antarctica Experience.