Film maker, painter

In 2007, I established Frogmouth Films making documentary and environmental, social justice pieces including Knitting Nannas and Courage for the Long Haul. Works have screened and won awards at numerous Australian and international film festivals and Knitting Nannas is featured in the Australian Film and Sound Archives.

2020 Esk (7:16min) Filmed, produced, and edited, Byron All Shorts, Blue Shorts Film Festival, Awarded Blue Shorts Film Festival,2020 Best Art Film

2019 Walking (home) also titled Direction Finding (3:33 min) Written, filmed, produced, and edited, screened Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens 50th Anniversary, Garden of Earthly Delights Festival, Blue Shorts Blue Mountains Film Festival, Awarded Blue Shorts Film Festival, 2019 Best Sound

2018 Courage for the Long Haul (14min) Written, filmed with Cloudcatcher Media, produced, and edited Premiered at Melbourne Environmental Film Festival. This film considers community processes that unite beyond political affiliation to protect our life support systems on Earth. Australian Independent Film Festival, Brisbane, Byron Bay International Film Festival, Byron All Shorts, Byron All Shorts, 2019 Audience Award Best Short Film, Australian Independent Film Festival, Brisbane 2019 Finalist

2013 Knitting Nannas (21 min) Written, filmed, edited. The story of a dynamic group of women who productively and peacefully protest the coal seam gas industry in Northern NSW. Premiered at Flickerfest International Film Festival, Sydney and Byron Bay All Shorts International Film Festival 2014. Screened in Australia and internationally for community interest groups. Screened at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba for World Heritage Day celebrations, 2014 and World Community Film Festival, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada 2016, Flickerfest, 2014 Highly Commended, GreenflicksEnvironmental Short Film, Byron All Shorts, 2014 People’s Choice Award

2011 Being with Her (40min) Written, filmed, produced, and edited, 40min. Interviews with partners of women who have birthed at home. Online viewing and community screenings across Australia. 

2010 Throwing Out the Lies with the Birthwater (40min) Written, filmed, produced, and edited. A story of a woman before, during and after her homebirth in the Blue Mountains NSW. Public screenings across Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Premiere screening The Edge Cinema, Katoomba

I worked collaboratively on the project Another Future (2021) with Textile Audio (Eve Klein) and Ensemble Offspring. I interviewed the residents: Lis Bastian (Blackheath), Miranda Corkin (Blackheath), and Rae Boltin (Bilpin) and made separate documentary videos about their experiences during the bushfires. I also made a video about Eve Klein’s experience during the Brisbane floods: Hadrian. This collaborative piece formed part of a separate project and was screened during Ensemble Offspring’s live performances in Sydney in 2022. 

My collaboration with other filmmakers and artists includes working with Cloudcatcher Media to creatively reimagine storytelling media and education, and to consider how communities connect. I am a contributing filmmaker to the project Confusing Them with Our Joy, a touring multimedia show about a community resistance to gas development. Confusing Them with Our Joy asks what was learnt from this struggle that could help other communities seeking creative alternatives to fossil fuels and climate change threats. This project considers how planetary health challenges can be mitigated, and global struggles can be faced through a solutions-focused approach.

I was a contributed camerawork for The Bentley Effect. This film features footage collected over five years and documents a community’s response to the threat of the coal seam gas industry in the Northern Rivers NSW. This cross-sectoral response to the threat of coal seam gas mining included farmers, landowners, scientists, and activists. It explores the potential for different community sectors to work together for a safe and clean future. 

I collaborated with Louise Loomes (writer) to produce Esk, a film about the impact of the 2019 bushfires on the Esk River, in Bundjalung country, Northern NSW. The film screened at the Byron Bay All Shorts Film Festival and the Blue Mountains Blue Shorts Film Festival in 2020. I filmed the river from a kayak to capture the devastation and regeneration after the firestorms. 

In 2013, I contributed camera work on a short film about the threat to Sydney’s water supply from underground longwall coal mining in the Sydney water catchment. The film was part of a longer project for Lock the Gate’s film Undermining Australia: Coal vs Communities.

In 2023, I continue my work on a film project with Blue Mountains East Timor Sisters (BMETS) and Acoiris, an LGBTQI safe space in Timor Leste.

I am also one of ten Blue Mountains artists currently working with the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute (BMWHI) as part of the Swamp Diaries project (2023) on Gundungarra and Dharug lands. I am making a close study of several plateaus and peat moss swamps for this six-month residence. This includes water quality monitoring and observations such as paintings, photographs and film. There are upcoming exhibitions for this project.