I am a writer/director with an oeuvre of visually vibrant, culturally relevant and philosophically challenging films. As a graduate of both Australia’s National Film school (2018) and the Australian National University’s vaunted philosophy program (2009), my films have screened at festivals from Sydney to New York and been called “haunting” (Pilerats) “shamelessly wry” (Vice) and “nonchalantly chaotic” (RUSSH Magazine).

I never made it to my film school interview because the night before, and at my year 12 graduation, someone in the audience yelled boring as my short film projected to a room of 300 teenagers. To truly figure out why I would make such ‘boring’ work I instead pursued an undergraduate degree in philosophy which, a decade later, provides an existential backbone to my work.

In my work I try to authentically render my experience as a woman, being gendered and subject to a cultural force of disregard for the ‘feminine’. This type of exploration is still surprisingly rare in Australian cinema and the hunger for such inquiry has blown out since #MeToo.

An Athlete Wrestling a Python is my most successful film to date, it pushes the viewer to think about the film, ever sharpening the focus on a female force. Underpinned by it’s meta-narrative, the existential wander see’s me building on my philosophical tendencies and cinematic aesthetic. Late last year it was released online with New York’s premiere indie short film streamer NoBudge and subsequently made the top films of 2021, described as ‘an incisive, darkly comedic character study’.