Jennifer Scott Mitchell

Jennifer Scott Mitchell has over 25 years experience undertaking, and fulfilling a variety of roles and responsibilities within the film, television and entertainment industries.

Jennifer’s excellent research and business skills have seen her create, develop and commercialise various film, television and entertainment projects as well as directing and commercialising concepts for client groups and companies.

Jennifer is a leader who can identify, manage and harness skill sets toward a common goal, and has been recognised within the industry as a creative problem solver adept at commercialising content and intellectual property featuring She has a very rare ability to communicate on any level of proficiency and experience. Her broad talents were recognised by the Department of Communication and the Arts in 2016, when she was appointed as an Independent Assessor for the Arts Development & Investment Branch.

Jennifer was CEO of concept company Fine Idea Network & Entertainment Pty Limited (2004 – 2014) which commercialised and produced creative game concepts and select merchandising, supported by feature films and television projects. Fine Idea identified experts in various fields relevant to its activities and formed marketing, research, publishing and legal teams, incorporating the work of executive producers, lawyers, writers, accountants, web entrepreneurs, financiers and investors toward the development of many valuable products and services.

Jennifer is currently the CEO of Allanbank International Pty Limited. Allanbank was responsible for the original manifestation of ‘The View’ (conceptualised by Jennifer) – a television series presented to the NINE Network and The BEYOND GROUP. It was successfully produced by Barbara Walters and CBS in America.

In 2012 Jennifer decided to establish Wild Orange Publishing with the talented artist and illustrator Leah Srejber to create a series of books through imprint The Sidewalk Children and to publish and market the stories of Baby Tom and his family. The Sidewalk Children’s stories follow Baby Tom and his sister Scout as they explore their big wide world. Along the way they also learn significant life skills that help them to stay safe… in this unsettled world, where everyone is in a hurry. There are fourteen books in the series with further titles in development. http://babytom.com.au/

Wild Orange is publishing a series of reveal picture books O-Oh Dinosaurs, O-Oh Witches, and O-Oh Monsters for early learner readers. The stories about Maxx and Lucy are in French, Chinese and English. They are for children aged between 2 and 6 years to encourage children and their wild imagination as well as their fear of the dark.