Grace Uther is a film & television director, screenwriter & producer currently based in Brisbane, Queensland.

In 2021, she directed The Brothers’ Book Club, a modern book review and skit show developed for the ABC with the support through Screen Queensland’s Factual initiative and produced by Kiosk Film. The Brothers’ Book Club pilot is currently available on ABC iView.

With Kiosk Film, Grace also directed a suite of films about intersectional feminist performance-makers Polytoxic and their latest stage production DEMOLITION. Grace directed a documentary about Polytoxic’s radical and inclusive creative process, the promotional trailers for their successful Brisbane Festival 2021 performance, a stage-to-screen art film based on their show, and a segment for for Art Works.

Grace’s short thriller, Nineteen Ninety Nine (2019), found a home on female-centric streaming platform Femflix, following a sucecssful festival run. The film premiered at MonsterFest in Melbourne, and screening internationally at Nightmares Film Festival (USA), picking up awards including Best International Director at the Austin After Dark Festival. Grace was an award finalist for Best Cinematography At Noosa International Film Festival for her previous short film Obsessive (2017), a psychological thriller she lensed and co-wrote with partner Sam Uther.

As a writer, Grace features on the AWG Pathways program showcase, as a finalist for the AWG's Monte Miller awards. Grace has worked as a writer, script coordinator, researcher and notetaker roles on projects in development with Hoodlum, Like a Photon, Easy Tiger and Essential Media. For Hoodlum, Grace was wrote on ABC iView series The Science of Harrow.

Grace has worked on many prominent productions for the ABC, Netflix and Stan, Hoodlum and Aquarius Films. She has worked alongside Directors PJ Hogan, Stefan Elliot, and Damien Power, and undertook a Screen Queensland supported Director’s Attachment on Kriv Stender’s feature film Danger Close.

She is the founder and director of Queensland based, female driven screenwriters collective, The Scene, launched in 2021 to support local writers and facilitate the integration of more diverse storytelling on screen. She is a member of the AWG and ADG, and can be found on the ADG Directory here.

Grace grew up in Sydney and the UK. Alongside her qualifications in Film Production, Grace has earned degrees in Advanced Science and Arts, focusing on neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, French, and film theory.