About eugénie
Eugénie is a director and screenwriter who creates and consumes content to make sense of the world. Her stories, from naturalistic dramas to sci-fi dystopias, tug at the invisible strings that hold us together and tie us to the things we can’t live without.
She explores intimate themes of identity, otherness and belonging, trauma and survival – through love or through violence, with a passion for uncovering the hidden stories in history via her own Chinese Australian heritage. She has a knack for finding audiences thirsty for genre but also for love in dire, cynical times.
Eugénie has a Bachelor of Film and Television (Honours) from Swinburne University. Her grad film Twenty Forty Three gained her an ADG Award nomination, as well as taking her to Spain for the Sitges Film Festival. She won Best Director for her film Small Hands at Made in Melbourne. Her honours film Blue Games had its World Premiere at Flickerfest. Her latest short Beautiful Smile had its World Premiere at Austin Film Festival, with subsequent selections by Torino Film Festival, Flickerfest and St Kilda FF.
In 2018, Eugénie was one of eight emerging female directors selected for the Screen Australian and ADG Commercial and Content Directing Mentorship Program. On the back of a Film Victoria writer placement, Eugénie landed an ongoing position in the script department of Neighbours in 2019. Since her first Director Attachment in 2020, Eugénie went on to direct over 70 episodes of the iconic and longest running Australian television series, including the 40th Anniversary event episodes and the bittersweet penultimate block.
She directed her theatre debut with the breakout horror-comedy hit Horse Girls, playing a sold out run at last year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Eugénie’s screenwriting projects have received funding via VicScreen Project Development Funding and the Stan and Film Vic Comedy Fund.
Eugénie is currently based in Naarm/Melbourne and can be contacted atjou.muggleton@gmail.com
