Mike Nayna is an Australian writer, director, and filmmaker.

Career

In 2012 Nayna filmed an abusive attack on a Melbourne bus, producing a viral video that made headlines around the world. The incident and ensuing media event was explored in-depth in Nayna's 2016 documentary, ''Digilante'', which premiered on ABC TV and made its international premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival. Digilante later won best short film and best sociological documentary at film festivals in the US. The film received positive reviews and was praised by author and documentary filmmaker

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and also prompted FilmInk to call Nayna 'one of the most exciting voices in Australia’s next generation of documentary filmmakers'. The film was acquired and distributed by

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as part of their The Atlantic Selects series In 2014, Nayna produced, directed, and edited Dayne's World for ABC TV, winning the

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Award and the award for best editing at Melbourne WebFest. Later that year he produced, directed, and edited the

Fancy Boy ''Fancy Boy'' is an Australian six-part sketch comedy television series which screened on ABC2 from 8 December 2016 to 12 January 2017. Fancy Boy stars John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Henry Stone, Jonathan Schuster, Greg Larsen, and Anne Edmon ...

pilot for Fresh Blood Pilot Season, which went on to be picked up for a six-part series for ABC TV and

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In 2016 Nayna co-founded social media network Letter.wiki with brothers Dayne and Clyde Rathbone, which was later acquired by media platform

Substack Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack ...

References

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