Paula Boock is an award-winning New Zealand scriptwriter, producer, and published author. Her screen credits include storylining and writing on the light drama The Strip, the internationally acclaimed drama series The Insiders Guide to Happiness and its 7-part "prequel" The Insiders Guide to Love. She won the 2003 AFTA Best Drama Script (with Kathryn Burnett) for The Strip and was a finalist in the 2005 and 2006 NZ Screen Awards for her Insiders Guide scripts. She was also the script consultant for three series of the multi-award winning bro'Town. In 2007 she and Donna Malane formed Lippy Pictures. Together they created and produced Time Trackers, a 13-part international children's time-travel drama, and the 2008 Qantas Best Drama Until Proven Innocent, a telefeature about the trials of the wrongly convicted David Dougherty. They followed up this success with the inaugural 2010 Swan award (Best Drama Script) for Bloodlines (Screentime), the story of convicted murderer Dr Colin Bouwer. In 2010/11 Paula and Donna wrote and produced Tangiwai, A Love Story, a large scale television film based on the story of Nerissa Love and her fiance Bob Blair, whose lives, like so many, were shattered by the train disaster at Tangiwai on Christmas Eve 1953.

As an author Paula has written five young adult novels, including Out Walked Mel (AIM Best First Book Award) and Dare Truth or Promise (NZ Post Children's Book of the Year) and held several residences and scholarships. Before the move to screenwriting she worked as a publisher and was a founding partner of Longacre Press.

Donna Malane is a television producer, script and series advisor, script writer, storyliner, script and story editor and developer. She has written television prime-time drama, fantasy drama, children's drama, sketch comedy, doco-drama, documentary and factual programming, as well as several books, short stories and radio dramas. Donna also Produced and wrote the award winning documentaries A Tale of Three Chimps and In Search of the Moa both of which screened extensively in the international market and included National Geographic World and National Geographic USA. While holding the position of Head of Development at the Gibson Group in Wellington she was responsible for the development of amongst others, the highly acclaimed drama series The Insiders Guide to Happiness and the children's/youth drama series Holly's Heroes (NZ/Aus). She was a Storyliner and Producer of The Insiders Guide to Happiness series and its 'prequel' series The Insiders Guide to Love. Donna also wrote the successful humorous sports book The Girls Guide to Rugby, a young adult book Alien Time and several children's books and text for Learning Media publications. Her radio plays Burnt Toast, Burning Bright and Dark Horse were broadcast, as was her short story The Cardboard Box. In 2010 Donna’s novel Surrender was awarded the NZSA/Pindar Publishing prize.