Head of Development, Hoodlum (Brisbane)

Jackie Turnure is Head of Development at Hoodlum, a two-time Emmy ® award winning entertainment company based in Australia that specializes in producing high quality campaigns for multiple platforms.

At Hoodlum, Turnure is charged with developing the company’s major multiplatform campaigns.   Turnure is a seasoned cross media producer and script writer for games, film and television production spaces. 

Turnure was instrumental in the DHARMA WANTS YOU, an eight month multiplatform campaign for ABC’s LOST which picked up the 2009 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Media Programming. Turnure also supervised production on JOIN THE MOSAIC an interactive prequel experience and ongoing community for fans of ABC’s hit series FLASHFORWARD. Turnure’s other Hoodlum credits include THE MAKING OF MODERN AUSTRALIA, a broadband campaign in conjunction with ABC Australia’s four-part documentary series and most recently, supervision DAY X EXISTS for Sony Pictures Entertainment, a global prequel for the upcoming release of the feature film SALT. Currently, Turnure is working on Hoodlum’s multiplatform series SLIDE,  a 10x1 hour program with FOXTEL which will initially roll out this year. 

Turnure, who joined Hoodlum in 2008, brings the company a tremendous amount of cross media production and development experience in the areas of games, film and television.

Prior to Hoodlum, Turnure was the Director for Rockpool Productions where she supervised, produced and wrote numerous projects such as alternate reality games GET CARLA  andDIAMOND REEF and online games THE ALIEN INVASION and CHICKO-ACCIDENTAL ALIEN. Turnure also directed and produced PC based 3D animated games called BANANAS IN PYJAMAS, IT'S PARTY TIME, and OZ - THE MAGICAL ADVENTURE, which all have been distributed in over 18 countries and have won numerous awards.

From 2006-2007, Turnure served as a member of the Laboratory of Advanced Media Production team (LAMP), Australia’s premiere emerging media research and development production lab facilitated by the Australian Film TV and Radio School in Sydney. 

Turnure has been a speaker at a number of the leading media events including: the Australia Council Story of the Future Seminar, Australia Machinima Festival, Australian Writers Guild Workshops, and the Australian Effects & Animation Festival. Turnure has also taught scriptwriting, directing and game design at NYU, the Academy of Art College, and the University of Technology, Sydney.