Panopticon Collective is an Australian screen production company founded by

Jeni Bezuidenhout and Sebastian Bertoli.

We tell stories that move us and question our place in the world.

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Informed by our lived experience as first and second generation immigrants, our work explores themes of death, rebirth and redemption.

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The panopticon, a theoretical building where all rooms can be watched from a central observation point, though the inhabitants of those rooms are unaware whether or not they’re being watched at any given point in time, reflects the modern panopticon of screen storytelling.

This unifying experience, of being the observer, and observed, can allow us to shed our individualistic ego and remind us of our common humanity and interconnectedness. 

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Panopticon Collective is based in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, on the stolen and unceded traditional land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

We respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.