Eighty Wings is a small production company based in Melbourne, Australia.
The Team
Alida Tomas
CEO, Producer,
After leaving UCLA School of TFT with Dean's Honors Alida quickly focused on comedy writing, working on documentary feature When Comedy Went to School featuring Larry King, Sid Caesar, Marc Maron, Jerry Seinfeld and more. She also gained producing experience with Emmy and Peabody Award winning Ron Frank Productions. She has written, directed and produced national commercials for Y-Generation Against Poverty (YGAP), and developed Hipster Jesus a TV script that was optioned by Gaumont Television after being picked as Série Series Festival top trailer in 2016. Over the last 10 years she has worked in the world of storytelling for many formats, from script, to articles, to screen.
Jem Splitter
Head Writer
Most of Jem’s experience in the creative arts has been not onscreen but rather onstage, having had a range of roles in theatre since he was big enough to aim a spotlight. Since then he has had experience performing, writing, and directing theatre; his first professional writing job was adapting and directing the P.G. Wodehouse novel Something Fresh in 2009, which he did while studying theatre and script writing at Monash University. He has also made a career in musicals, directing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and starring in Avenue Q and The Witches of Eastwick in Melbourne. Jem is also an experienced teacher, specialising in speech and drama teaching for young children. Jem has been working with Alida and Eighty Wings since 2012, creating and directing Displaced, and co-creating Hipster Jesus, Space on Earth, and a number of other projects currently in development.
Our Projects
Goldy the Greyhound
Kids’ animation - 12 x 2-3 minute episodes
In Production
Goldy the Greyhound: the lightning speed of a cheetah, with the slothfulness of a, well, sloth. While his owner’s at work, Goldy entertains himself with his curious mind, his unique outlook, and his big dreams - during big naps.
Displaced
Live-action webseries - 6 x 10 minute episodes
In development with Screen Australia
When a depressed, 30-something physicist accidentally sends herself back in time, she decides to make the best of the situation by mentoring her own younger self - and finds out what a handful she was as a teenager. It’s Gilmore Girls meets Back to the Future.
Space On Earth
Kids’ animation - 20 x half-hour episodes
In development
Two aliens are found by three curious human kids who help them start new lives. Together this curious found-family discover mysteries, dangerous conspiracies, monstrous threats... and, scariest of all, middle school.
Hipster Jesus
Adult animation - 20 x half-hour episodes
In development: optioned by Gaumont
Jesus, sick of being a perpetual 33 year old who lives with his dad, comes down to Earth to correct his stuffy old image. He’s backed up by his loyal sidekick Peter, undermined by his capitalist PR agent Judas, and repeatedly schooled by hardcore activist Mary as he tries to make sense of a world that’s getting increasingly hard to recognise for this millennia-old millennial.
