Rachel Maxine Anderson is an Australian-Filipino writer and director crafting emotionally resonant stories grounded in nuance, authenticity, and cultural specificity.

Rachel’s work explores identity, grief, and self-discovery, centring characters navigating life between worlds. Her breakout factual short-form series BANANAS (2019), co-created with Mary Duong, began from lived experience. Starring Rachel alongside her mother, the series offered an intimate portrait of living between cultures in contemporary Australia and was an official selection at SXSW Film Festival 2020.

Through SQ Attach, Rachel completed a director’s attachment with Jeffrey Walker on the Universal Studio Group series YOUNG ROCK (2021), refining her approach to character-driven storytelling within large-scale television production. She later directed VIV’S SILLY MANGO (2022) as part of The Kaleidoscope Project, a collaboration between ABC and Screen Australia championing culturally distinct Australian voices.

Her most recent project is the online series INA (2026), funded by Screen Australia and Screen Queensland. Rachel is the creator, writer, and director of her first fully authored series, a nuanced reckoning with mixed-race identity and the struggle to reclaim one’s heritage in environments that seek to erase it.

Rachel is also the co-writer of feature film DISCOVERED and the co-creator of the dark comedy series IN HER BODY, shortlisted for SBS Digital Originals. Across her work, she continues to centre diasporic narratives with emotional precision, contributing a distinct Australian-Filipino voice to the international screen landscape.