About

German born, Aussie girl – Rita Artmann is the co-founder/co-creator of production company ArtSpear and associated YouTube channel ArtSpear Entertainment (3.6 million subscribers and over 1 billion views). 

Rita has been producing for 15 years and was one of the 2024/2025 Screen Producers Australia "Ones To Watch". She is the producer and co-creator of Screen-Australia-supported mockumentary web series UnTrue Crime; multi-award-winning, internationally distributed comedy feature films The Killage and Australiens (Monster Pictures, Midnight Releasing); skit-comedy series The Void and The Void: Rebooted; and viral animated parody series Toon Sandwich.

In 2025, Rita produced The Worst That Could Happen for Haven’t You Done Well Productions and the Macfarlane Bros. as part of the 2024 Skip Ahead Initiative. 

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 Toon Sandwich. 

Co-founder of production company ArtSpear, Joe Bauer has been 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 act in multi-award-winning internationally distributed feature films The Killage and Australiens and web series The Void and The Void: Rebooted.

Since 2015 Joe has been the co-writer and sole animator, composer, sound designer and male voice actor for Toon Sandwich, an animated parody series that has gained over 1 billion views and 3.6 million subscribers on ArtSpear’s YouTube Channel. He is also an illustrator of 6 children’s books — the popular Eric Vale and Derek Dale trilogies — which have been published in multiple countries around the world.

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