Fran Derham is a producer and director with 15 years’ experience across commercials, documentaries, and scripted drama. She began her career with the award-winning surf documentary First Love (2011), and has since written, produced, and directed commercials alongside long-form projects.​  She developed Netflix’s Surviving Summer with Werner Film Productions, serving as Associate Producer on Season 1 (2021) and Surf Unit Producer/Co-Director on Season 2 (2023).  Her credits include Conspiracy 365 (2012), The Reef (2013), It’s People Like Us (2017), Finding The Line (2017), and most recently the AACTA-winning, black comedy Buried (2024).  Her work is known for its strong focus on empowering women as well as its candid youthful feel. Currently she is developing a number of tv concepts and lives with her husband and two children on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, Australia.