The Native Lens Film Festival Filmmaker Lab 2024 was most definitely a career highlight. The Native Lens Film Festival (NLFF) is the Solomon Islands’ very own film festival providing a platform for indigenous Pacific stories and raising Solomon Islands voices. In 2024, the first iteration of the NLFF Filmmaker Lab took place in Honiara for three …
In late October 2024, I will travel to the Solomon Islands to facilitate the first-ever Native Lens Film Festival Filmmaker Lab. This is particularly special because I get to go back to my island home to support new and emerging filmmakers to tell their stories. I am collaborating with two truly phenomenal women, twin sisters …
I’m pleased to share that NITV has renewed the broadcast licensing for the film for the next 3 years. This means that BLACKBIRD is available to screen online for free in Australia until 2027. View the film on SBS OnDemand here. If you’re outside of Australia, click through here. More information about BLACKBIRD film project here.
In October 2023, I was fortunate to be able to travel to the lands of the Yuwibara people, Mackay, Queensland for the Brown Sugar Festival. The event marked “the 160th anniversary since the first South Sea Islander people were brought to Queensland to work in the sugar and cotton industries.” I had the honour of …
In late 2022 and again in June 2023, I was grateful to be able to facilitate a smartphone storytelling workshop with about 18 participants who came out on a Sunday afternoon to learn how to get the best out of their phones when shooting and editing videos. This was organised through Wyndham City’s Digital Art …
Earlier in 2023, the CEEBS web series team were successful in securing development funding from Screen Australia. I am producing with Nikki Tran and we’re collaborating with writer/ creators Betiel Beyin and Leigh Lule. CEEBS is a 15-part TikTok mockumentary about recent high-school graduates, Zion and Ruby who join forces to run for Youth President at their …
This year in 2022, I decided to take a break from the film industry after a pretty negative work experience that shook me. It’s been healing to step away from the toxicity that the Australian industry can foster at times. However, throughout my broader filmmaking career, I am grateful to have had some truly fantastic …
BLACKBIRD (13 mins, PG) is now available to watch online for free in Australia via the SBS OnDemand platform until 2024. Stream on your computer or phone: CLICK HERE BLACKBIRD screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival; imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto 2016; the Pasifika Film Festival, Sydney 2016, where it picked up …
CEEBS web series was selected as one of twelve projects Australia wide to participate in the Screen Australia/ SBS Digital Originals initiative 2021. Twelve teams took part in development workshops in early May and from this group up to four projects will be chosen for further development. CEEBS is created by writer/performers Betiel Beyin and …
CEEBS Webseries Selected for Screen Australia / SBS Digital Originals Initiative Workshops 2021
I’m pleased to be producing the Lil CEEBS comedy project, along with writer/producer Nikki Tran, in supporting the vision of Betiel Beyin and Leigh Lule who are two wonderfully talented and funny Afro-Australian creatives from Melbourne’s West. This Instagram mini-series is the prequel to the CEEBS web series that was selected as one of twelve …
‘Lil CEEBS’ IGTV Comedy Mini-Series By Talented Melbourne Creatives
I spent the last few months of 2020 participating in the Australian Screen Forum New York – Women in Screen Workshop. It was an honour to be selected as one of eight women from Australia and the USA to be a part of mentoring, conversations, exploring the business and legal side of film guided by …
Women in Screen Workshops with Australian International Screen Forum New York
THALU is a kids TV series set up in the Pilbara, Western Australia. I was invited to direct two episodes of THALU: “The Aunty Who Talks Too Much” (written by Nayuka Gorrie) & “The Others” (written by Donald Imberlong). UPDATE: View THALU (Ep. 7&8) on ABC iView: here The story follows “a group of Indigenous children, …