Who We Are.

NIXCO is a global integrated communications consultancy specialising in strategic marketing and public relations for a wide spectrum of corporate, creative and government clients in the Australian and global film, television, arts and culture sectors. We create tailored communications that deliver maximum impact.

Led by company director Fiona Nix, our team are experts in finding audience, developing integrated marketing strategy, overseeing unit publicity, media relations, influencer marketing, campaign marketing, creative strategy, partnerships, promotions, red carpet and event publicity, local and global festival management as well as individual talent management.

You will find us on set capturing the content needed for a killer marketing campaign, in meetings developing strategy and planning, on the ground at film festivals,  in the studios and junket rooms talent handling, running the red carpet or working in partnership with marketing and PR teams to launch a show.

Our mission is to shape the future of our screen and creative industries through setting new standards of excellence and providing high-impact audience-focused marketing and PR solutions that benefit client partners, our employees and the whole community. It’s why media, distributors, streamers, producers, creative professionals and government agencies consistently work with us to get the job done, together. 

Meet The Team

Fiona Nix - Company Director

Fiona Nix has over 25 years’ experience in the entertainment and arts industry as a consultant, publicist and company director of NIXCo, which she established in 1998. She is a passionate supporter of the Australian film industry, devoting her time to providing strategic guidance to international and local film productions, emerging and established filmmakers, screen businesses and not-for-profit organisations.

Fiona is a committee member of The Natalie Miller Fellowship, a not-for-profit organisation that was established to recognise, nurture and inspire the next generation of female leaders in the Australian screen community and was on the Board of Directors of TROPFEST, the world’s largest short film festival.

Harriet Dixon-Smith - Director of Communications & Business Affairs

Harriet Dixon-Smith is a communications professional with over 12 years’ experience in entertainment public relations in Australia and the United States. Previously, she worked for Roadshow Films, ID-PR, PMK*BNC, CBS Television and Hulu. She holds an M.A. in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California.

Harriet has a passion for working on Australian film & TV and has been proud to contribute to the release of films such as High Ground, The Australian Dream, 2040, Breath, Hotel Mumbai, Gurrumul, Jasper Jones, Red Dog: True Blue, The Daughter, Oddball, Snowtown and Animal Kingdom; and the unit publicity of productions such as The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Wolf Like Me, Barons, Three Thousand Years of Longing, The Dry, The Gloaming, Babyteeth, Diary of an Uber Driver and Operation Buffalo. 

She's also managed publicity tours for some of the world's biggest stars including Channing Tatum for Magic Mike XXL, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell for The Hateful Eight, Chris Hemsworth for In the Heart of the Sea and Ben Mendelsohn for Una.

Jillian Heggie - Senior Communications Manager

Jillian Heggie is a communications specialist with almost 20 years’ experience in the arts.

Before working with NIXCO, Jillian was a Senior Account Manager at TM Publicity where she managed release campaigns for films such as Lion and Ride Like A Girl for Transmission Films, as well as managing publicity tours for talent such as Jane Fonda, Al Gore, Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce and Ai Wei Wei. Other clients included the Australian Directors Guild Awards, Paramount Pictures and the Moran Art Prize.

Prior to TM Publicity, Jillian was the National Publicity Manager for Hopscotch Films / eOne Australia for eight years where she spearhead the publicity campaigns for over 100 Australian and international titles such as The Sapphires, Mao’s Last Dancer, Blue Jasmine, Now You See Me and Bright Star. Key talent tours with Hopscotch /eOne included Jesse Eisenberg, Wim Wenders, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Cate Blanchett, Jane Campion, Daniel Bruhl, David Gulpilil and Stephan Elliott.

She started her communications career in her native Scotland where she worked in the media and marketing departments of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. 

Carly Lincoln - Senior Communications Manager

Carly is a communications professional with more than 10 years experience working in the entertainment industry both in Australia and London. She holds a Bachelor of Mass Communications.

Before returning to Australian soil, Carly served as Head of Press for Edinburgh International Film Festival and has worked across international consumer and corporate campaigns at the world’s leading film festivals including Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, London Film Festival and Dubai International Film Festival. Her publicity experience has seen her contribute to premieres and tours including Agnès Varda’s Visage Village, John Woo’s Manhunt, Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman, Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant, Netflix’s The Crown S1 and S2, Ron Howard’s The Beatles Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years and Oliver Stone’s Snowden, among many others. 

Rosie Braye - Senior Communications Manager (on maternity leave)

Rosie Braye is a film communications and marketing specialist with over 12 years’ experience bringing engaging stories to Australian audiences.

As Senior Communications Manager at NIXCO, Rosie spearheads publicity campaigns and partnerships for film distributors, producers, premium SVOD platforms and arts clients, and works across unit publicity. She was previously National Publicity Manager at StudioCanal, one of the country's largest independent distributors and the local arm of one of Europe's leading film studios, where she led the theatrical publicity department and developed brand partnerships and promotions. Prior to this, in roles at independent distributors Entertainment One, Transmission Films and Hopscotch Films, Rosie developed extensive experience and deep insight into the distribution business working on theatrical and home entertainment titles across publicity, marketing and other departments.

Rosie served on the Dendy Short Film Awards and Film Advisory panels for Sydney Film Festival in 2013-2016 and as a judge for the ATOM Awards in 2014-2015. She is also an AACTA-nominated producer.

Benita Woodley - Communications Executive

Benita works across promotion and publicity campaigns for theatrical, streaming and home entertainment releases. Heading promotional and publicity campaigns at state and national levels, she has worked across multiple theatrical releases including The Dry, Penguin Bloom, High Ground, Minari, Girls Can’t Surf, The Father, The Worst Person in the World, Knowing The Score, The Giants, Ablaze and Carmen.

With a love for Australian cinema and growing up in rural Australia, Benita has a rich understanding of regional audience perspectives and experiences, lending perfectly to the diverse Australian and global voices behind the film, TV and arts content she works across.

Kate Rooney - Communications Coordinator

Kate graduated from a Bachelor of Communications specialising in Journalism from Charles Sturt University.

During university, her work appeared on ‘The Junction’; a multi-university site following the 2019 Federal Election. She also assisted in creating, writing for, and running student-lead new sites. She worked for the Daily Mail Australia briefly during 2021 as an Online News Reporter focusing on articles around Covid and social media entertainment.

Previously, she interned with Northern Beaches Council as part of their communications team and was involved in writing news articles, press releases and filming promotions for government strategies.

Kate joined the NIXCO team in 2022 to follow her passion for working in the entertainment media industry.