Rachel Perkins

Rachel Perkins
Perkins at the 2012 AACTA Awards in Sydney
Born	1970 (age 46–47) Canberra, Australia
Occupation	Producer, director, writer
Years active	1998–present
Spouse(s)	Richard McGrath (divorced)
Children	1
Parent(s)	Charlie Perkins, Eileen Perkins

Rachel Perkins is an Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She is known for her films Bran Nue Dae (2010), Radiance (1998) and One Night the Moon (2001). Perkins is an Arrernte woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by Eileen and Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins.

Perkins was born in Canberra in 1970. She is a daughter of Charlie Perkins and granddaughter of Hetty Perkins, and has Arrernte, Kalkadoon, and German ancestry. Her sister is Hetti Perkins, an art curator. For schooling she and her sister attended Melrose High School.

At the age of 18 Perkins moved to Alice Springs and entered into a traineeship at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.

In 1992 Perkins founded Blackfella Films, a documentary and narrative production company creating distinctive Australian content for television, live theatre, and online platforms, with a particular focus on Indigenous Australian stories. Its productions have included multi-award winning seven-part documentary series First Australians, television film Mabo, and TV series Redfern Now.