Bios & Credits
NIYATI LIBOTTE
Niyati Libotte is an award-winning Producer, Director and Writer based in Sydney, Australia. She was mentored by seminal Australian Film Directors Shawn Seet and Peter Faiman, and Bollywood Filmmaker Subhash Ghai. She has worked with filmmakers including Damian Lay, Marcus Gillezeau, Peter Abbott and Paul G Roberts across feature films, factual series and feature documentaries for over 15 years.
Eschewing the medical sciences for the bohemian life, Niyati studied Media Arts and Production at UTS, graduating Dux after a period filmmaking and singing jazz in France. A passionate believer in ethical and impact storytelling across genres, Niyati is also a published writer, poet and performer.
She has developed, written, produced and/or directed for a number of studios and broadcast partners internationally. Her work has won at film festivals including two Cannes World Film Festival Best Feature Documentary Awards, an Impact Doc Award, Hollywood Gold Award, one Boston and two Miami Independent Film Awards, Paris Film Award, Stockholm Shorts Festival, and the world’s first Digital Emmy for environmental drama feature Scorched (2009).
CREDITS
GAVIN RENE LIBOTTE
Gavin Rene Libotte is a multi award winning Australian Musician/photographer born in Kent Sussex England and is currently based in Sydney. He has been in love with Photography since he set up his own darkroom in the bathroom as a teenager. Studying Fine Art and Graphic Design gave him the visual skills and photographic eye that is needed to create stunning images. His current obsession is Street Photography, where art meets the everyday and the human story is documented in a moment. His photographic influences include Ray K Metzker, Trent Parke and Alex Webb.
He has won numerous awards including Reportage Photographer of the Year Australian Photographic Prize and runner up Australasia’s Emerging Top Photographer 2023.
He has exhibited in the US, Italy, Prague, Tokyo, Brussells and many more.
PUBISHED
Symphony No 5 Monograph 2025
Wanderland ZIne 2025
Visions A Decade of Winning Photographs Photo Book 2025
Where The Streets Lead Photo Book 2025
42 Days Zine 2024
My Eye Got Lazy ZIne Park Life 2024
AAP Magazine Streets 2024
Maya Zine 2023
AAP Magazine Shapes 2023
AAP Magazine Black & White 2023
AAP Magazine Colours 2022
AAP Magazine The Mind’s Eye 2022
Dodho Portrait Book 2023
Dodho Black & White Book 2023
Growing Home (4 x 60’ Series; Channel 7; Director / Story Producer) 2024
Australian Fashion: Past, Present & Future (6 x 60' Series; SBS; Series Producer) 2024
Super Natural: Fashioning the Ideal Male (5 x 60’ Digital Series; Series Producer / Co-Director/ Co-Writer) 2023
Marcus Schenkenberg: A Brand New Species (Feature Doc; Producer/ Director/ Writer) 2022
The Diversity Imperative 2022
Rise of the Male Supermodel (Feature Doc; Producer) 2022
Tyson Beckford (Feature Doc; Producer / Co-Director) 2022
Sean O'Pry (Feature Doc; Producer) 2022
Supermodel (Feature Doc; Producer) 2021
Virgil (Short Doc; Producer) 2021
Burbujas (Music Video; Director / Editor) 2021
Get Up, Stand Up! (Feature Doc; Producer) 2020
After the Lockouts: The Search for Sydney's Missing Nightlife (Feature Doc; Producer/ Co-Director/ Co-Editor) 2018
Various Short Documentaries, Fashion Industry Broadcast (Producer/ Director/ Writer) 2017-2020
Ingenious Africa (TV Documentary Series; Associate Producer/ Researcher) 2009-2010
The Lost Anzac (Drama Feature Film; Writer/ Researcher) 2009-2010
AHL: 100 Years of Entertainment (Theatrical Docuseries; Event Cinemas; Associate Producer/ Writer) 2009
Luck of the Game (Drama Feature Film; Writer/ Researcher) 2009
Catch (Dramatised Doc; Associate Producer) 2009
Scorched (Drama Feature; Network 9; Development Producer/ Cross Platform Writer) 2008
Road to Ryde Panthers (Commemorative DVD Feature Documentary; Producer/ Co-Director/ Writer) 2008
Various Short Docs (Australia Channel/Foxtel; Producer/ Director/ Writer) 2007-2008
Rock Eisteddfod Challenge TV special (Network 9; Writer) 2007
In the Line of Fire (TV Docuseries; Network 9; Series Coordinator) 2007
Thalassa (TV Docuseries; Writer/Researcher) 2007
Enlightened India (TV Docuseries; Co-Producer/ Writer) 2006
Wine Trails (TV Docuseries; Researcher/ Writer) 2006
Composure (Drama Short; Sound Designer/ Editor) 2006
Forum (Short Doc; Producer/ Director/ Writer) 2005
The Narrow Path (Short Doc; Co-Producer/ Music/ Sound Design/ Editor) 2003
Various shorts for AFTRS (Producers/ Directors Assistant) 2002-2003
FILM/TV ATTACHMENTS:
The Alice (TV Drama Series, Network 9; Director's Attachment, Shawn Seet & Ian Watson, Southern Star) 2005
Kisna: Warrior Poet (Drama Feature; Director's Attachment, Subhash Ghai, Mukta Arts) 2004
RADIO:
2005-2011
Between the Covers Eastside Radio (Weekly Show; EP/ Producer/ Presenter)
2004-5
Duncan's Story ABC Radio National (Radio Feature Series; Producer/ Director/ Writer/ Editor/ Presenter)
2003
Real Dreams UTS (Radioplay Feature; Co-Director/ Producer)
