Latecomers Q&A Screening

Friday 9 February

12pm AEST

After watching their care workers hook up at a bar, two strangers with cerebral palsy become determined to explore their own relationships with sex, and each other.

Garnering multiple achievements, Latecomers is the first SBS Digital Original to have sold overseas, won the SDIN Award and Online Series Production of the Year Award from SPA, won the ADG award for Best Direction in an Online Comedy Series Episode (Madeleine Gottlieb) in December 2023, and was nominated for an AWGIE! It has been nominated in this year’s AACTA Awards for Best Online Drama or Comedy.

AACTA invite you to watch the first three episodes, and then join the creators for a Q&A about their process, their successes and what’s next.

Praised for its representation not just in front of the camera, but behind as well, Latecomers is touchingly funny, created by Angus Thompson, Emma Myers and Nina Oyama. It was produced by Liam Heyen and Hannah Ngo and directed by Madeleine Gottlieb and Alistair Baldwin.

Featuring

Emma Myers

Emma Myers is a screenwriter, actor and journalist with cerebral palsy based in Newcastle. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and subsequent 1st Class Honours degree on the representation of women, disability and intimacy in contemporary culture. The critically acclaimed 2022 SBS Digital Originals’ series Latecomers, which Emma co created and wrote with Angus Thompson and Nina Oyama, gained a Series Mania nomination and won an SPA Award as well as the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2023. The series is also nominated for an ACCTA Award.

She is one of this year’s recipients of Screenworks Inside The Writers Room program, as well as one of the representatives recently chosen to serve on Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Taskforce during 2023 to 2025. She has recently spoken at the National Young Writers’ Festival and TEDX Sydney 2023. Emma was also the recipient of the ABC Regional Storyteller Scholarship in 2020 and has two years’ experience working as a Features Reporter for ABC News. 

Emma is passionate about educating audiences about the intersection of womanhood, sexuality and disability through the medium of screen.

Nina Oyama

Nina Oyama is a comedian, writer and actress. As a stand up comedian and on-screen presence, Nina is known for her charming, quick witted persona and extremely average face. She is best known for playing ditzy receptionist Courtney on Utopia, doing comedic reporting on Tonightly with Tom Ballard and The Weekly and performing stand up on Just for Laughs Sydney. In 2021, Nina's sophomore stand up comedy show Nina Oyama is "Doing Me" Right Now sold out its entire season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which led to appearances on The Project, Australia Debates and Win The Week. As an actress, Nina has worked on shows such as Kinne Tonight, Dom and Adrian 2020 and Mikki Vs The World (a kids sketch show about Mental Health) where she got to play many fun, light hearted characters, including a Giant Panda that suffers from depression. Nina is part of the main cast of Deadloch, a crime comedy noir coming to Amazon Prime in 2023.