Writer | Season Two, Episode Three
Based on real-life stories, RFDS portrays the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
The second season of Seven’s RFDS picks up one year after Eliza (Emma Hamilton) left Broken Hill behind. Much has changed, with lives at RFDS South East progressing at a rapid rate.
The determined team will face some of their most confronting challenges – in the air, on land, with each other, and within themselves – set against the outback’s isolation, beauty and brutality.
Coming to Channel 7 in 2023.
Writer | Episodes Two and Three
Produced by Matchbox for NBCU International, Bad Behaviour is a four-part miniseries adapted from the memoir of Rebecca Starford. The show plays out across past and present time lines and explores the intensity of female friendships, ritualistic rites, emerging sexuality and a ruthless struggle for power. It reveals that even ten years on from this formative year away at camp, no one has escaped unscathed – and most are scarred for life.
All four episodes of Bad Behaviour are now streaming on Stan.
Writer | Episode Three
This irreverent reimagining of 1940s Australia follows Frankie (De Rossi), who’s left in charge of her suffering apple farm after her husband is sent to war (or was he?). She enlists Gwen (McKenna) and Esther (Zvedeniuk), the freshly enlisted naïve city-recruits of the Women’s Land Army, to join herself, local Indigenous farmhand Kathleen (Grainer) and certified coward Robert (Testro).
Premieres on SBS and SBS On Demand at 8.30pm on Wednesday, September 27.
Writer | Episode Five
The Messenger is an eight-part adaptation of Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel of the same name for the ABC, from Lingo Pictures. The drama follows Ed Kennedy, whose life is one of peaceful routine until playing cards inscribed with cryptic tasks start to arrive in the mail. Choosing to care, Ed makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains - who's behind Ed's mission?
All episodes are available now on iView.
Writer | Episode Three
Crazy Fun Park is a hair-raising tween horror/comedy coming soon to ABC ME, produced by Werner Film Productions. The series tells the story of Chester, an introverted teen who makes the incredible discovery that his recently deceased best friend, Mapplethorpe, is one of a group of ghoulish teens who haunt the abandoned fun park on the edge of town. Without rules, adults or the real world to get in the way, Chester truly believes that Crazy Fun Park is a place where the fun never stops. But the dead have much to teach the living and Chester soon learns that maintaining his friendship with Mapplethorpe might have dangerous consequences…
Magda’s screenplay for Episode 3 was awarded the 2024 Australian Writer’s Guild Award for Children's Television – C Classification.
Writer | Three episodes
The teenage monster hunters are back to give household chores a supernatural twist - tipping ordinary life upside down into a crazy tangle of monsters, magic and mayhem!
Strange Chores is an animation for kids, now it in its third season. View here.
Writer: Episode Three
Surviving Summer is a Young Adult series from Werner Film Productions for Netflix. Fierce and fearless Brooklyn teen Summer Torres is exiled Down Under to live with ambitious young surfer Ari Gibson and his family; where she will spend she'll spend the next couple of months falling in love with surfing, driving Ari crazy ... and upending everyone’s lives.
Available on Netflix here.
Writer: 2 episodes
The PM’s Daughter is a half-hour political drama for kids, produced by Fremantle Media for ABC ME. Catalina Parkes Pérez (Cat to her friends) is like any other teenager who wants to fight the powers that be. There’s just one complication: her mother is the Prime Minister of Australia.
It can be viewed here.
Writer: 7 episodes
Mustangs FC is a goal kicking comedy drama about girls who are abandoning the sidelines and starting their local football club's first all-female team. Magda wrote seven episodes across the three season series, including the finale.
Magda’s screenplays for Season 1 Episode 9 and Season 3 Episode 13 both received the Australian Writer’s Guild Awards for Children's Television – C Classification.
Seasons 1, 2 and 3 can currently be viewed in full on ABC iView.
Writer/co-writer: 4 episodes
The Heights is a half-hour serial drama exploring the relationships between the residents of the Arcadia social housing tower and the people who live in the rapidly gentrifying community that surrounds it.
The Heights can be watched on iView.
Writer - 42 episodes | Script Editor/Trainee Script Editor - 200+ episodes | Storyliner - 200+ episodes
Neighbours is an Australian icon and the longest running drama series in Australian history. It is set on Ramsay Street, a residential cul-de-sac in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough - and explores the trials and tribulations of families and friends, Neighbours brings the perfect blend of soap and sunshine to audiences in Australia and beyond.
Neighbours screens weeknights at 6.30 on 10Peach, and online at tenplay until August 2022.
Writer | 4 episodes
Home and Away is a daily serial drama chronicling the lives, loves, happiness, and heart-breaks of the residents of Summer Bay, a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia.
It screens at 7pm every weekday on Seven.
Click here to view a scene written by Magda.
Writer | Short film
Lara is excited to be attending the government’s new Adult School but her journey toward ‘adulthood’ is thrown off track when she meets Harry, her new classmate.
This film was funded through the Screenwest Elevate70 program, and has so far screened at Flickerfest, Revelation Film Festival and Cinefest OZ.
Writer | Short Film
A born wallflower, Margot has long lead a life of solitude - but this all changes when Harriet moves in next door with her son, Henry. Harriet seems like Margot's opposite, but they do have something in common: they'll both do anything to protect their babies.
Stuffed screened at SCENECS 2012 (Holland), Branchange Festival (UK), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK), Australian Short Film Festival, and Dungog Film Festival. The film won a ATOM Award and several WA Screen Awards (incl. Best Short Screenplay). Magda's script was also nominated for a Writer's Guild Award.
