About Me:
Screen Programming Producer - Sydney Opera House
Creative Producer - Broadcast & Digital, Arts Centre Melbourne
Produced and Directed NIRIN NGAAY docs for 22nd Biennale of Sydney
Produced From the Ground Up now with 1M+ YouTube views
Filmmaker of award-winning doc A Will for the Woods.
Films screened at Sundance, Tribeca, DOC NYC, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Full Frame Film Festivals among many.
Freelance video editor at Greenpeace, Vice Media, Red Door & Strong Productions
Human Rights Arts & Film Festival programmer 2020 & 2016
Bendoc Cemetery Trust board member
Seeing Eye Dogs Australia Puppy Carer
Biography:
I am an award-winning creative film and digital producer. Now I reside in Melbourne after living in New York City for 10 years. There I graduated with a degree in theatre at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a Bachelors Degree (with honours) from The New School University.
Currently I am a Screen Programming Producer at Sydney Opera House. Previously I was a Creative Producer in the Broadcast & Digital team at Arts Centre Melbourne, overseeing a department of 40 and producing a variety of digital works from live performance, documentary series, to digital video art.
I continue to work within Australia and world-wide producing films on subjects that move me. Some of my notable works include:
'Namummaa fi Wantoota Namummaa Qancarsan – Humanness and What Took It' (2021). A multilingual documentary by Soretti Kadir combining theatre, poetry, song and Oromo dance, exploring what it means to be human in the presence of each other. The film captures the diverse philosophies and stories of the Oromo worldview and experience through those who elevate humanity and those who deny it. Director Soretti Kadir, and Co-producer and Co-director Ilily Aba Omer.
'NIRIN NGAAY' (2020). Commissioned for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, artist’s book NIRIN NGAAY is a collected presentation of the work of 59 artists, writers, creatives and collectives in the first collaboration of acclaimed designers and artists Stuart Geddes and Trent Walter. Geddes and Walter co-edited the volume with Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney Brook Andrew and Curatorial Assistant Jessyca Hutchens. I documented Trent and Stuart’s creative process.
'Take Over!' (2020). Eight performance artists commissioned. Culminating in eight extraordinary digital works for Melbourne Fringe. Produced with Arts Centre Melbourne. Winner of Best Dance & Physical Theatre, Best Experimental, and Best Words & Ideas in Category awards.
'From the Ground Up' (2019). Short documentary on the regenerative agriculture movement has gone viral on YouTube with hundreds of thousands of views to date.
'A Will for the Woods' (2013). I collaborated with my awesome co-directors on writing, directing and editing our first feature doc. We had much success winning nine film festival awards – including four audience awards – and had over 140 theatrical and festival screenings worldwide. The film was also broadcast with multiple encore screenings through PBS America.
In 2015 and again in 2020 I was a feature and shorts programmer respectively for the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival.
I also worked for a period of years in distribution at Genevieve Bailey's feature documentary production company Proud Mother Pictures on 'Happy Sad Man' and 'I Am Eleven'.
While living in New York, I worked in the indie narrative field as a Production Assistant, Production Coordinator and an Associate Producer with accomplished American indie filmmakers Cory McAbee on Crazy & Thief (LA Film Fest & BAM), Marie Losier on The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Tribeca & Berlinale) and Matthew Porterfield on I Used to be Darker (Sundance, TIFF, Berlinale).
As well as filmmaking, I am a Seeing Eye Dog Puppy Carer to my blonde nugget Redmond.