RUBY CHALLENGER

is an emerging Australian film producer and director. Her first short film, Daily Bread, a world war two period film set in a prisoner of war camp in Indonesia, had its World Premiere at Flickerfest 2018.

She has worked for the last decade across both Art and Costume departments, often in the roles of Art Director (What If It Works, 2017), Production Designer (Old Spice commercial with the Bondi Hipsters) and Costume Designer (Timothy, ABC 2014) and worked with clients such as Colgate, Kleenex, Sydney City and Wild Turkey. 

Challenger has also had three sell-out solo exhibitions of her landscape paintings.

Ruby completed a Film Studies Major in her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney and partially completed a Bachelor of Design in Fashion and Textile Design at the University of Technology, Sydney. 

With a background in fine art and fashion, Ruby takes inspiration from a variety of visual sources to inform her filmmaking, as well as a deep passion for telling stories that tap into the universal human experience.