About

German born, Aussie girl – Rita Artmann is the co-founder/co-creator of production company ArtSpear and associated YouTube channel ArtSpear Entertainment (3.5 million subscribers and over 1 billion views).

Rita has been producing independent content for 14 years. Her work has won awards both locally and abroad. She is the sole producer and co-creator of mockumentary UnTrue Crime (Screen Australia and YouTube’s Skip Ahead Initiative 2023) and multi-award-winning, internationally distributed comedy feature films The Killage and Australiens (Monster Pictures, Midnight Releasing) as well as skit-comedy series The Void and The Void: Rebooted.

Rita is currently producing The Worst That Could Happen for Haven’t You Done Well Productions and the Macfarlane Bros as part of the 2024 Skip Ahead Initiative. Most recently and excitingly, Rita has been selected as part of the 2024 Screen Producers Australia “Ones To Watch” cohort. 

Starting her career as an actor, Rita has performed in film, TV, theatre and web series professionally for over 20 years. She has emulated hundreds of popular characters as the sole female voice artist and co-writer of the viral animated parody series Toon Sandwich. 

Co-founder of production company ArtSpear, Joe Bauer has been writing and creating films since he was 11 years old.

Joe won numerous awards for his shorts as a young filmmaker and moved on to write, direct, edit and star in multi-award-winning internationally-distributed feature films Australiens, The Killage and web series The Void and The Void: Rebooted.

Joe is the co-writer, sole animator, composer, sound designer and male voice actor for Toon Sandwich, an animated web series that has gained over 1 billion views and 3.5 million subscribers on ArtSpear’s YouTube Channel. Joe is also an internationally renowned illustrator of 6 children’s books – the popular Eric Vale and Derek Dale trilogies – all of which have been published in multiple countries around the world.

In 2023, Joe co-created, directed and acted in true crime mockumentary series UnTrue Crime, a recipient of the 2023 Screen Australia and YouTube Skip Ahead initiative. In 2024 he was accepted into Nicholas Weinstock’s Craft Services screenwriting network.