Christopher Gist
Christopher Gist is a writer and executive producer. He has developed and EP'd over 30 titles ranging from features to series television, commissioning and/or executive producing some of Australia's and New Zealand's highest rating dramas. For the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he commissioned and EP'd shows including Jack Irish (Guy Pearce), Old School (Sam Neill and Bryan Brown), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Essie Davis), and Australia's number one drama The Doctor Blake Mysteries. His feature film The World’s Greatest Martini / Martini Mumma is slated for production 2026. In new media, the Small Cow team has developed and written six Vertical dramas with global audiences in the hundreds of millions.
Sarah Mayberry
Sarah Mayberry is a producer, screenwriter, story consultant and story editor with more than 100 hours of television drama to her name. She has written feature film The Fabric of Christmas, and co-written Love Adjacent, which is scheduled to shoot early 2026. In TV, Sarah helmed Neighbour’s script department after Amazon re-commissioned the show, as well as writing on Channel 5 UK 4-part premium crime drama, Love Rat. In addition to writing more than 250 episodes of Neighbours, she has written for Wonderland (Network 10), and Home and Away (Seven Network). She is also the lead writer and co-creator of young adult drama Karaoke High (TVNZ). In 2021, Sarah produced award-winning feature film, Darklands. She is a much-awarded, best selling author of a range of books, including more than 40 romance novels, details of which can be found at www.sarahmayberry.com
Daniel Chua
Daniel Chua is a filmmaker and screen content developer, who started his career on Crazy Rich Asians in camera and LX. As a producer at Turtle Media, Daniel collaborated on some of the biggest global hits in Vertical drama, with viewerships in the hundreds of millions, earning Turtle Media recognition as TikTok’s Top 10 Overseas Production Teams of 2024 and as Australia’s first TikTok for Business Partner. Daniel’s move to Small Cow Productions reflects his passion for original story and script development. Daniel is a key part of expanding Small Cow Productions’ slate for 2025/26, particularly in script delivery for a range of premium apps such as DramaBox, TikTok, Content Republic/Lemon, Bytedance, Kalos TV and MiniShorts. Daniel’s role at Small Cow signals the strengthening strategic alignment between Small Cow Productions and Turtle Media, and the increasing demand from international apps for script and story from Small Cow.
