**UPDATE – I WON!!** This morning, in the midst of lockdown number 5 in Victoria, I had a little party in my loungeroom as the Federation Business School Commerce Ballarat Business Excellence Awards finalists were announced. It’s a totally honour to be named a finalist in the City of Ballarat Creative Industries awards category along…
CAPTAIN MOONLITE RIDES AGAIN In 2020 during the Covid pandemic, I was approached by Cafs (Child and Family Services) Ballarat to take the creative lead on a project that was set to be a first for Ballarat in many ways. A public show of support for Ballarat’s LGBTIQ community, shining a spotlight on arguably Ballarat’s…
Commissioned by: City of Ballarat Inspired by: The voices of the Ballarat community during the Covid 19 Pandemic Performed and Choreographed by: Alison Shirley Music by: Rae Howell with support from Brannoc Whetter. Filmed and Edited by: Michelle Dunn Assistant: Yael Zalchendler City of Ballarat’s “Be Kind Be Creative” was deployed in the first lockdown…
I’ve been meaning to create an online video showreal for YEARS! I spend my life creating photography and video work to promote other people and like the builder with the unfinished home and the chef that eats toast for dinner, I’m never making time to create videos for my own business. Finally, I…
This year has been a special one for me as it was our 10th year in business! I had dreamed of being a photographer way back in high school. Put off by my careers counselor in year 9 who told me I was being a bit too ambitious and should think of something else, it…
A few months ago I was approached by Sofia Fiusco who was then the Executive Officer of Leadership Ballarat & Western Region. She wanted to create a film that showed the strength of the Indigenous participants in LBWR & the effect that their presence has had on other LBWR alumni. So we wanted to harness…
I remember so clearly the first time I had a photo published. I was walking down the street in the wee hours of a Scottish morning in Edinburgh, perhaps somewhat intoxicated, with some of the cast of a play I had photographed for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival a few months earlier while I was still…
I have huge respect for these two Ballarat creative souls. I created a short doco with Cax last year that ended up screening on ABC television at the start of 2014 & it was great to be working with him again, this time on one of his projects. Local Hip Hop artist Esvee has…
My series of artist documentary short films is well under way. Nathan Curnow is the latest focus. Poet, playwright & short fiction writer, Nathan has been widely published both in Australia & overseas. I met Nathan a few weeks after moving to Ballarat & when I started making these docos he was high up on…