Belinda Chayko is an award-winning writer and director of film and television.

Belinda was the co-creator and showrunner on the series FIRES (2021), which won an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award (AACTA) for Best Miniseries and a TV Week Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Miniseries. Belinda was also the co-creator and showrunner on SAFE HARBOUR (2019), which received an International Emmy for Best Television Series; an AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television; and a Silver Bird Prize at the Seoul International Drama Awards.

Most recently, Belinda wrote on the Australian Netflix drama series THE SURVIVORS (2025), which was adapted from Jane Harper’s best-selling novel, and produced by the award-winning team at Tony Ayres Productions (FIRES, CLICKBAIT, STATELESS), which is backed by Matchbox Pictures and NBCU.

Her recent writing credits for television include PROSPER (2024), and STATELESS (2020), starring Cate Blanchett and Dominic West. STATELESS received an Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) nomination for Best Series, a C21 Media Award nomination for Best International Miniseries, and a Screen Producers Australia Award for Best TV Miniseries.

Belinda wrote on FIGHTING SEASON (2018), which earned her an AWGIE nomination; two seasons of the political drama SECRET CITY (2016), starring Jacki Weaver and Anna Torv; and the mini-series BARRACUDA (2016), for which she received an AWGIE Award. Belinda’s other television credits include OLD SCHOOL for Matchbox Pictures, as well as NEWTON’S LAW, and the hugely popular MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES for Every Cloud Productions.

Belinda wrote and directed the feature LOU (2010), starring John Hurt, which screened in competition at a number of international film festivals, including Busan, Rome, and Palm Springs. LOU won the Audience Award for Best Feature at Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, and the Grand Jury Prize at the St Tropez Film Festival. Her directorial debut feature, CITY LOOP (2000), premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.

Belinda has also made a number of award-winning short films and wrote the AWGIE Award-winning telemovie, SAVED (2009) for SBS.

For a full CV please contact info@rgm.com.au.