Bio

FILM & TELEVISION
BEST MEDICINE (tv series in development), Matchbox – Storyliner
SUNSET (short film, drama) Producers: Lydia Gawa; Jane Hampson (Arafura Studios) – Writer/Director/Producer
Funding: DIFF and Screen Territory
Premiered at the Darwin International Film Festival, 2018;
Finalist, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival; Official selection Heart of Gold Film Festival (Gympie, QLD).
HOUSE OF BEK AND BINDY (comedy web series in development) Producers: Jane Hampson, Phil Denson – Writer/Producer
Development funding: Screen Territory
TIGRESS (feature film, 100 mins, financing), Producer: Leanne Tonkes; Jane Hampson – Writer/Producer
Development funding AWG Scripted Ink, Funding: Film Victoria
Winner: AWG/INSITE Award (Best Unproduced Screenplay)
Finalist: Scriptworks LA Pitching Competition Official Selection: TIFF Co-financing market 2018
D-TOWN (web series in development) -Writer/Producer
Development funding: Screen Territory
DEADLINE short film) Producer: Jane Hampson (Arafura Studios); Dixi-Joy Bankier – Writer/Creative Producer/Director
Funding: Screen Territory
Selected for: Darwin International Film Festival; NT Travelling Film Festival, 2018; Auckland International Film Festival; Port Shorts Film Festival (Port Douglas, Qld)
THE SECRET DAUGHTER (tv series), Screentime/Network Seven, Storyliner
THE LADY FROM THE SEA (tv series in development) – Writer
Development funding: ArtsNT History Grant
Finalist: AWG ‘Inside the Box’ TV Competition; CineStory TV/Digital Writers’ Fellowship, LA.
NINE MINUTES FOR 9/11 (documentary online series) ABC – Writer/Photographer/Voiceover
THE DEFENCE OF DARWIN (multimedia museum installation, The Museum and Art Gallery of the NT) – Writer
DANCE ACADEMY (tv series) Werner Films/ABC – Script Assistant Dance
BALIBO (feature film) Director: Robert Connelly – Actor
THE  OTHER SON (short film) Producer/Director: Heng Tang – Actor
ALL SAINTS (tv series) Network Seven – Actor (semi regular)

COMMERCIAL FILMS
BE STILL (online film 2 mins) C-KOL Productions – Writer/Voiceover
SUMMER WONDER (online film 2 mins) Client: Country Road, starring Gemma Ward – Writer
VIEWS: 1.6 million.
LIFE THROUGH WOOL (online film) C-KOL Productions Client: Country Road, starring Isabel Lucas  – Writer
VIEWS: 740,000 views

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2018 Selected for (T)IFF Financing Market, Toronto (Tigress)
2017 Selected for AWG Scripted Ink Development funding (Tigress)
Selected for Playwriting Australia’s Rapid Fire development program (Ivy)
2016 Finalist: CineStory TV/Digital Writers’ Retreat, Idyllwild (Screen Australia funding)
2015 Winner: Melbourne Fashion Film Festival Best Film (Life through Wool)
Finalist: Melbourne Fashion Film Festival Best Film (Summer Wonder)
Finalist: Berlin Fashion Film Festival Best Film (Life through Wool)
2014 Selected for AWG Pathways Program
Finalist: AWG/Matchbox TV Writing Competition
2013 Winner: Adelaide Film Festival/Australian Writers’ Guild INSITE Award (Tigress)
Finalist: Inscription LA Screenwriting Scholarship (Tigress)
2012 SPAA Fringe Pitching Competition. Victorian representative (Tigress)
2011 Screen Territory/NT Writers’ Centre Mentorship with Nicholas Parsons
NT Literary Award for Screenwriting (The Promised Wife)

OTHER
2018 AWG Script Consultant, StudioCanal Sydney (Cannes Film Festival pre-market); Judge, NT Literary Awards, 2017; Invited panelist, AWG National Screenwriting Conference, March 2016; Invited panelist NT Writers’ Festival, May 2016; Participant, CineStory Idyllwild Writers’ Retreat (California, USA); Judge, Darwin International Film Festival, 2016.

EDUCATION
2013 Associate Diploma Screenwriting, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1991 Bachelor of Arts, The American University of Paris, Paris, France