NARRATIVE
TWIST (A 6 x 1 hour Limited Series)
A subversive retelling of the Dickensian classic ‘Oliver Twist’ set in a dystopian near future London reeling from a global refugee crisis.
Currently in development with British producer Hannah Ireland.
CLONE (A feature film)
A teenager’s world is upended when she meets the woman she was illegally cloned from.
MONARO (writer/director, 7 min installation + proof of concept )
An evolving work filmed on Ngarigo Land across the Monaro plains and surrounds.
Monaro is a tonal proof of concept for a science fiction limited series currently in development.
With Jeremy Ambrum. A Yidinji man from Atherton Tablelands, Birri Gubba and South Sea Islander from Lifou Island.
Showcased at the Powerhouse Late: Film as part of the ‘You Are Not Alone’ series (2022).
*Winner of the Platform X Storyworld Competition - Australian Writers Guild.
CATTLE (writer/director, 20 min short film)
Australian Premiere - Melbourne International Film Festival (2018)
International Premiere - Denver International Film Festival (2019)
* Nominated for best film - Heart of Gold Film Festival (2019)
* Nominated for best film - Lorne Film Festival (2019)
Distributed on ABC iView and Virgin In-Flight Entertainment
1919 (director, 11 min short film)
Funded by Metroscreen and Screen Australia as part of the Raw Nerve
Commissioned for broadcast on ABC (Australia).
Australian Premiere - Limited Television Release on ABC (Sep 2015) - Australia only
International Premiere - Aesthetica Short Film Festival
* Best Music in a short film -- Australian Screen Music Awards (Nov, 2015) Melbourne, Australia
PRECIPICE (writer/director, 3 x 20min audio series)
An AiR innovation project commissioned by AFTRS, BBC, WNYC Radio and Virgin Entertainment.
Australian Premiere at VIVID FESTIVAL in 2017
Presented at RADIO DAYS: VIENNA in 2018.
ONLINE
CONTENT
2021
The Wilds, AMAZON PRIME
Vera Blue, FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL
Cultural Safety, CATSINaM (Producer)
2020
Like A Boss, ADOBE
New Recruits, McGRATH NICOL
3 x segments - 2020 Trailer,
SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY
2018 - 2019
KENNARDS HIRE
VIRIDIAN GLASS
HONEYWELL
EUROPEAN MOTOR DISTRIBUTORS
Charity Campaigns, OGILVY PR
Seniors Card NSW, OGILVY PR
MUSIC
VIDEOS
2021
“Strings Attached series”,VERA BLUE.
Live at the Fortitude Music Hall.
2018
20/20, OKENYO (Elefant Traks), *Nomination for Best Editing, Australian Screen Editors
Utopia, OKENYO for (Elefant Traks), *Official Selection Clipped Music Festival
Gutfull, THE HARD ACHES (Warner Music)
Sewing, OSLOW
2017
83 Days, WAFIA (with Dan Abraham)
Cul-de-sac, DAN SULTAN (Universal)
Burn it down, HANNAHBAND.*Featured by Triple J Unearthed
2014 - 2016
This Way, SHE REX
Harelquin Saints, GAY PARIS
Plastic Cups, SHAKY HANDZ
He wasn’t a good man, HANNAHBAND
Another Year, JESS LOCKE
In Consequence, FAT GUR WEARS MYSTIC
WOLFSHIRT
Rapture, BATTLE POPE
Lassie, DOC HOLLIDAY TAKES THE SHOTGUN
Girl, MARCH OF THE REAL FLY
Holiday, SWEET TEETH
Girls, SWEET TEETH
Spectre, THE PERISHERS
MONARO
With Jeremy Ambrum. A Yidinji man from Atherton Tablelands, Birri Gubba and South Sea Islander from Lifou Island.
A FORCED INTERRUPTION
Shot in October, 2021. An installation capturing the seemingly empty streets of a city.
Exhibited as part of the ‘You Are Not Alone’ series at POWERHOUSE LATE: FILM in April 2022.
1900 x 3
An exploration of family history spanning across three generations of mixed race women. The records beginning in roughly 1900 at the St Andrews Colonial Homes in Kalimpong. A district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Working with family photos, excerpts from letters and research.
IN OUR OWN RIGHT: Black Australian Nurses’ and Midwives Stories - 2022 National Exhibition
A series of video installations commissioned by The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives.
Published in 2005, In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses’ Stories provides a powerful catalyst for questioning and calling into question the taken-for-granted humanity of us all. Told with incredible dignity and humility, each of the individual and deeply personal stories recounted is a powerful testimony to the gross inhumanity and brutal capacity within Australian society.
“In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses’ Stories was distributed to every Contemporary Nurse subscriber in August 2005. Acknowledgement and gratitude is due to all the Indigenous nurses who submitted their stories to make this publication a reality. To all those who were approached and did not submit their stories, thank you for considering doing so. We all appreciate your contribution to Indigenous nursing and health care.
- Sally S. Goold OAM CATSIN, June 2005
CATSINaM would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the many lands of which we live and work, for their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to them, and to their Elders past and present.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this work contains the names and images of deceased persons.
CAST
Jean Lewis, Garawa
Jayvina Raggett, Gudanjii and Garrwa
Dora Raggett, Gudanjii and Garrwa
Angeline Penrith, Wiradjuri and Yuin Nation
Brittanie Shipway, Gumb ayanggirr Mob
Aba Nero, Meriam, Erumbam Le and Kannju women from Kannju tribes
Tysan Towney, Wiradjuri and Gumbaynggirr
Shelly Lauman
Miah Kennett
Siobhan Francis & Charlotte Francis
Aida Jenkins
Douglas Jenkins
CREW
Co-Director: Nicole Hutton, Garawa
Co-Director: Kerinne Jenkins
Producer: Georgia Moraitis
DOP: Gregoire Liere
Production & Costume Design: Ella Butler
Editor: Kelly Cameron
Composer: Declan Harsent
Colourist: Alina Birmingham
Production Manager: Kristen Settinelli
3rd AD: Elizabeth Haines, Kamilaroi & Wakka Wakka
1st AC/Data Wrangler: Gary Morris
Gaffer: Mat Wilson
Grip: Kris Wallis
Best Boy: Josh Royce
Hair & Make Up: Amelia Fell
Production Assistant: Miah Kennett
Associate Costume Designer: Blake Headley
On Set Art Director: Hayden Relf
Model Maker: Madeleine Cooper
Costume Standby: Elle Fitzgerald
Art Department Assistant: Tanieka Haines, Kamilaroi and Wakka Wakka
Art Department Assist: Elle Fitzgerald
Art Department Assist: Madeleine Cooper
Stills: Enzo Amato
Special Thanks:
George Coles & Sue Elphinstone, The Australian Film Television & Radio School, Stephanie Pringle – Chicken & Chips Sarah Neighbour at Panavision, Focus Film Lighting, Powerhouse Museum, Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum, Prince Henry Hospital Nursing and Medical Museum, SAH Museum, STC Props (Sydney Theatre Company), Hazel Fisher (STC Costume), Nick Day NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), Prop Co, Geoff Newey (The Look), Susan Young, Belvoir Theatre Company, Leon and Barbara Chapman, Lewis Doherty, Berthalia Selina Reuben and Lisa Campos, Aida Jenkins, Douglas Jenkins, Elliot Clifford, Luke Marsden, Alana Hicks and Jeanette Fabila.
1900 x 3
An exploration of family history spanning across three generations of mixed race women starting in roughly 1900 at the St Andrews Colonial Homes in Kalimpong. A district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Working with family photos, excerpts from letters and research.
1900 x 3 is a hybrid documentary currently in development.
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Below are two quotes from “ On The Threshold of Three Closed Lands”. A book published in 1905 by The Reverend J.A Graham who ran the St Andrews Colonial Homes, later known as Dr Graham’s Homes.
My great grandmother would have been one of the first pupils at the colonial homes and was, as they describe, of mixed European and Asian blood. Described below as the “Domiciled Community”.
“The previous chapters have been concerned with the natives, and, to a certain extent, our fellow-countrymen. But there is a third class which demands our interest-often termed the " Domiciled Community." Of its members some are Europeans-generally poor who have made India their home, but the mass are of mixed European and Asian (Eurasian) blood.
The "Domiciled Community" labour under many disabilities. The disrespect too often shown by the other two communities is hurtful to their own self-respect. The environment of a tropical country and of ideals very different from those of the West tend inevitably to a lower level of body, mind, and spirit. Without a special effort the members of such a community are bound to deteriorate. There are not a few who, often at a considerable sacrifice, make the effort and meet with success.
These successful ones, however, are but a small proportion of the community, most of whose members, owing to want of opportunity or want of will, grow up despising or unfit for honest labour, a trouble and a discredit to the British race outside of India.
The hope of solving the problem lies in the children. If they can, at an early age, be removed to a more robust environment in the mountains, and be there trained in healthy, home-life surroundings, and be taught by precept and example the dignity of labour, it is claimed that self-respect and self-reliance, grit, and resource will be fostered among them...”
“One of the weak points of the Domiciled Community is a distaste for and dislike of manual labour, largely owing to the conditions in which they are brought up. Special attention is therefore paid to instilling a love of labour. To this end no domestic servants are kept, and all the work of the cottages is done by the children, guided by the Housemothers.”
