Lights On takes the risk out of inclusion.
We train disabled talent to industry standard, create brand and screen content, and employ them in it. Three of five pilot participants were booked, three cohorts have completed the program, and Screenrights has backed us.
Partner with us so brands, productions and governments can reach a US$13 trillion global market, authentically, through the decade of major events ahead.
Train. Create. Employ.
Inclusion that looks like inclusion is the problem.
Brands, productions and governments want to work with disabled talent. What stops them isn't intent. It's the fear of getting it wrong: the wrong language, an unprepared set, a campaign that reads as tokenism. So they play it safe, and the opportunity passes.
“It's a twenty percent market share that's just being ignored.”Lisa Cox OAM · Advertising and branding specialist, advisor to Lights On
Only 4% of main characters in Australian TV drama had an identified disability, against roughly one in five Australians living with disability. Source: Screen Australia, Seeing Ourselves 2.
Talent hired without context.
A crew that has never worked with disabled creatives. Access not planned. Representation that puts optics ahead of story. The community can tell.
Audiences know immediately.
Performative inclusion doesn't just fail to land. It damages trust with the very audience you were trying to reach.
A headshot and a reel.
Most agencies treat inclusion as a casting decision made after the concept is set. That's casting. It isn't storytelling.
Built in. Not bolted on.
Inclusion from concept to delivery. We train the talent, we know their range and their story, and disability-led creative input shapes the work from the first page.
One studio. A talent engine and a revenue engine.
Training is our talent engine. Studio services are how brands, productions and governments work with us. The two feed each other.
Train
An eight week, 24 hour on-camera program, disability-led and access first, delivered by industry practitioners including Liza Brock, a working casting director from Brock Casting Services, and the Head of Acting at APAC. Every graduate leaves with headshots, an intro reel and a casting profile.
Create
Graduates create alongside our studio team, building screen credits and a body of work shaped by disability-led creative input. Graduates who want representation are introduced to agents through our industry partners and showcases. Graduates choose. Lights On is not their agent.
Employ
We cast graduates in the paid brand and screen content we produce, and they stay available to external productions through their agents and casting directors.
Place. Produce. Partner.
Every brief is matched at depth, by story rather than headshot. Choose the model that fits your campaign.
We place. You produce.
Your production, our talent.
- Brief-matched talent from our trained pipeline
- Access planning handled before the shoot
- Crew briefing and on-set support
- Camera-ready talent, including UGC
We write it. Crew it. Deliver it.
Full-service campaign production from inside the community.
- Concept development led by lived experience
- At least one in five crew roles held by disabled crew
- Live action, digital, immersive and UGC formats
- Senior production team with international credits
Always on.
Year-round inclusion, built into how you work.
- Priority access to the talent pipeline
- A regular content production cadence
- Community strategy and consultation
- First look at each new graduating cohort
Studio services are scoped per brief. Send us what you know and we'll come back within 48 hours with the model and budget that fits.
The four things that usually go wrong, handled.
Ready talent
Trained, camera-ready performers with professional materials.
Access handled
Access needs planned before the shoot, with support workers on set.
Story done right
Disability-led creative input from concept stage, not bolted on at casting.
Measurable impact
Training, paid work and community outcomes reported back to you.
A pilot of five. Three paid bookings.
No marketing spend. Two of the three bookings came from government clients, which tells you government is already buying talent from this pipeline.
Queensland Government
Paid print commercial, cast from the pilot cohort.
City of Gold Coast
Paid campaign for the city's accessible parking and wheelchair lock box initiative.
Human Nature
Paid booking on the Human Nature documentary commercial. That pilot graduate is now our Co-Program Director.
Backed by the Screenrights Cultural Fund. Supporting us to take the program online and fund a cohort of eight, turning a Brisbane program into national training infrastructure.
The largest underserved market on the planet.
Audiences reward brands that reflect the world they live in. Inclusive casting is a measurable signal of brand trust, not a values statement, and the brands that move now own the category narrative.
Annual disposable income controlled by people with disability together with their friends and families, worldwide.
Return on Disability Group, 2020Spent by travellers with accessible needs in Australia in 2024. That's 17% of all tourism spend, and Queensland hosted 24% of their nights.
Tourism Research Australia, 2024Record Queensland screen production expenditure in 2024–25, 34% of the national market. A booming local industry that needs trained, diverse talent.
Screen Australia, Drama Report 2024/25Added to Australia's GDP over ten years by closing one third of the employment gap for people with disability.
Deloitte Access Economics, 2011The decade ahead. Queensland is heading into a decade of major international events, tourism campaigns and civic content, much of it cast and produced here. Our aim is to be the trusted inclusion partner for the brands, agencies and governments creating that content, with trained, camera ready talent from our own pipeline.
Nothing About Us Without Us.
Lights On was conceived in July 2025 at the Creative Brisbane Collab's cultural legacy workshop for Brisbane 2032, where creatives with disability were one of six legacy themes. The report that followed named its first principle Nothing About Us Without Us.
Lights On is that principle in practice: disability-led from design to delivery. Seven months later the pilot cohort was running. Liza Brock now sits on the Collab's Cultural Legacy Panel for Principle 1.
Fund the pipeline, not a moment of visibility.
Program partnerships back the training that powers everything above, and put your brand alongside the talent from the start. Separate from studio services, and available on an annual basis.
One partner per category. Three Founding Partners in total.
- Program naming rights
- Co-branding on the national online program
- Screen and digital credits
- A seat on the Advisory Circle
- Priority talent access
- Quarterly impact reports
Book a 30 minute chat. Your Google Meet link arrives with your confirmation.
Per year, ex GST
- Program-level branding
- Event recognition
- Screen credits on relevant content
- Biannual impact updates
- One named scholarship
- Access to talent for your briefs
Per year, ex GST
- A branded cohort, presented by your brand
- Social and event acknowledgement
- Graduation showcase access
- Impact summary report
Lights On Studio is operated by Brock Up Media Pty Ltd, a private company and not a registered charity. Partnership contributions are sponsorship and marketing investment, not tax-deductible donations.
Led by people who live this world.
Breanna Swan co-leads creative development alongside Liza Brock, so every concept is shaped by lived experience from the first page. Carolien Foley leads partnerships and production.
Liza Brock
Founder · Managing Director · Program Director30 years across Australian entertainment as an ARIA Gold recording artist, national TV presenter, talent manager and casting director. Founded Brock Management and Brock Casting. Creative Brisbane Collab Cultural Legacy Panel, Principle 1.
Breanna Swan
Co-Program DirectorNeurodivergent actor, writer, filmmaker and emerging producer. Pilot graduate and Bus Stop Films QLD Ambassador. Leads accessibility, safety and participant experience, embedding disability leadership at the heart of training.
Carolien Foley
Partnerships · Senior Producer25 years across animation, VFX, live action and immersive production, with budgets to $5M+. Credits include Atlassian Metaverse, Taronga Zoo, Beat Bugs 2 and Martha the Monster. Leads studio partnerships and production.
Rita Artmann
Senior ProducerCreator and producer at Artspear Entertainment, with 3.5 million subscribers and more than one billion views. Brings digital distribution, audience building and production crews.
Sean Dennehy
Head of Acting, APACDirector, producer and educator with more than 30 years across theatre, film, television and opera.
From brief to story in four steps.
Tell us your brief.
The campaign, the audience and the outcome you need. We take it from there.
We match the story.
We find the talent whose story fits your brief at depth, not just on paper.
We scope the model.
Place, Produce or Partner, proposed to fit your budget, timeline and goal.
We build it.
Made from inside the community, delivered at international production standard, with impact reported back.
Get the Lights On media kit.
The cohort, the studio and the numbers in one download. See who you'd be working with before you send a brief.
Tell us what you're working on. We'll take it from there.
Send your brief and we'll come back within 48 hours with a clear picture of what we can build together.
We respond within 48 hours