Kiara Milera is an emerging Indigenous filmmaker from Adelaide and has credits for writing, directing and acting.
She began her career in 2015, writing for ABC’s Black Comedy. She has been working with and supported by the South Australian Film Corporation and has received funding from initiatives to attend workshops and conferences. She has also acted as production assistant for the short film, Coming Home, and as director’s attachment for Warwick Thornton’s, Sweet Country. She has created and developed her own projects as well, including WILD (short film) and Same, Same But Different (short documentary). Her work has appeared in the Adelaide Film Festival and on National Indigenous Television (NITV).
In May 2025, Kiara was selected for the Seeding Storytellers program through Screenworks and the Australian Writers’ Guild. The program provided intensive training in note-taking, script coordinating and the basics of a writers’ room, conducted over three day-long online workshops led by industry experts Catherine Kelleher and Terence McCarthy.
