WORK

2008 – 2011, 2015 & 2017 – Current

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR
THE MOVING IMAGE (ACMI)
Producer, Public Programs 

March 2013 – July 2013

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
School of Humanities, Bachelor of Media (2nd Year)

Sessional Tutor for Media Policy and Media Law

This course examined media law, policy and regulatory frameworks in Australia that affect media establishments and how they enhance or constrain media institutions and the public in their communication activities.

January 2012 – March 2013

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART (ACCA)

Public Programs Manager

Reporting directly to ACCA’s Artist Director, I managed all aspects of Public Programs from concept through to delivery.

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2008 – 2011

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR
THE MOVING IMAGE (ACMI)
Public Programs

Screen Events & Digital Storytelling Coordinator

  • Program research, coordination, delivery
  • Audio and video editing
  • Copy writing for print and online

Key Programs

Developing, programming and hosting monthly live studio talks and screenings on all things TV.

Highlights: Zombie TV, Mad Men, Mad Women, On The Wire, Loveable Murderers, Sci-Fi Spin-Offs, rage with John Safran, Welcome to Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Twin Peaks Marathon

This program is a hosted in-conversation live studio event asking celebrities the question ‘if you were stranded on a desert island which five films would you take and why?’

Highlights: Tim Burton, Nadia Tass, David Stratton, Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy, Julian Burnside AO QC, Catherine Deveny, Chris Masters,  Adam Elliot.

Producing digital stories and short documentaries through workshops from pre to post production.

2009 – In Our Words
Digital Stories of the wartime experiences of Victorian veterans

2009 – Emergency Management Australia Living with Disaster
Digital Stories and bio docs from the Black Saturday bushfires

2008 & 2009 – Foundation for Young Australians
Digital Stories with the Indigenous Youth Leadership Program

2008 – 100 Years of Victorian Women’s Right to Vote
Bio docs honoring women who were first in their field in Victoria

2008 – Journeys into the Unknown
Digital Stories with people living with HIV

  • Editorial Team for ACMI BLOG 
  • Public Programs for Tim Burton The Exhibition

Masterclass with Tim Burton and Margaret Pomeranz

Desert Island Flicks with Tim Burton and Alan Brough

Analysing Burton & Sunday Talks: a series of talks exploring Tim Burton on the big screen and the work of ‘Burtonesque’ practitioners

  • Coordinating Screen Gallery Exhibition Programs for:

Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood
Len Lye
Setting the Scene: Film Design from Metropolis to Australia
Correspondences: Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami
Game On

2011

Sessional WordPress Tutor for 360 Degree Storytelling

AUSTRALIAN FILM, TELEVISION AND RADIO SCHOOL (AFTRS)
Documentary Graduate Certificate  

This was a conceptual and practical module within the course.  Students were guided through building an online prototype in WordPress exploring multi-platform, non-fiction storytelling for their documentaries in progress.

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2010

Sessional Lecturer for Design Studio 1, BA Music Industry

ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY (RMIT)
School of Media and Communication

Teaching weekly workshop classes in:

  • Social media
  • Writing for the web
  • Blogging
  • Copyright
  • Remixing & Remix Culture
  • Image design
  • Editing in digital media
  • Final Cut Pro tutorials
  • Creating video and video in an online context

Visit my Teaching Blog

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2010

Moderator – Bluebird AR

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING
CORPORATION (ABC)
Innovation

  • Moderating content across multiple websites in line with the ABC’s editorial policies
  • Bluebird AR was an alternate reality game and drama on a fictional geoengineering project

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RADIO

2007

Producer & Trainer

CITY OF NORWOOD PAYNEHEM & ST PETERS
YouthFM – Three D Radio

Producing weekly radio shows and training presenters in community radio broadcasting:

  • Broadcast law
  • Programming
  • Presenting
  • Panel operation
  • Audio editing
  • Interviewing
  • Writing for radio
  • Pre-recorded features
  • Developing curriculum in consultation with The Department for Education and Children Services (DECS) and teachers to introduce the program to schools

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2006

Producer, panel operator, presenter

RADIO ADELAIDE
Weekly Media Watch Program

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2004-2006

Producer, panel operator, presenter

THREE D RADIO
Weekly Women’s Program

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PRINT

2007

Writer
EXCITEMENT MACHINE

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2004-2007

ANTONYMS FOR: DEMURE
Self-published zine

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2006

Editor
ON DIT
The University of Adelaide Student Newspaper

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2005

Film and Music Writer
ON DIT
The University of Adelaide Student Newspaper

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2004

Editor
LILITH: THE FIRST GRRRL WITH THE LAST WORD

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YOUTH & COMMUNITY WORK

2007

Project Officer

YWCA OF ADELAIDE
Young Women and Alcohol Project

  • Planning and facilitating workshops for university health and counselling staff in strategies for working with young women facing alcohol related issues
  • Planning, co-ordination and facilitation of the ‘Party Safe’ Workshop.
  • Development of a safety audit tool for licensed venues in consultation with the Adelaide City Council Crime Prevention Unit

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2007

Project Officer

YWCA OF ADELAIDE
Big Brothers – Big Sisters

  • Big Brothers – Big Sisters is an early intervention, mentoring program for youth at risk.
  • Working with vulnerable families, agencies and schools
  • Interviewing potential mentors and conducting assessments of children and families for the program

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2003 – 2006

Program Facilitator / Youth Worker

YWCA OF ADELAIDE
Girl Zone, True Colours and Girls Club