My first film Painting with Light in a Dark World about underbelly street photographer Peter Darren Moyle, which collected international accolades, was the beginning of an exploration of beauty in darkness which has preoccupied me throughout my artistic career.
My following films The Oasis, a longitudinal study of an inner-city youth refuge, Playing in the Shadows, about an after-dark basketball tournament for kids from a notorious housing estate in Woolloomooloo, and Destination Arnold, following two female Aboriginal bodybuilders, have continued the same theme.
My documentary The Pink House, about the last original goldrush brothel in Kalgoorlie won Best Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival 2017.
Life After The Oasis, charting the journeys of the young people of The Oasis a decade after the film’s release, and my more recent look at child protection, The Department, are the culmination of many years observation and interest in young people experiencing social inequality and the systems around them.
My latest film, Trafficked, follows investigative journalist, Nick McKenzie into the murky netherworld of human trafficking.
I have also worked on obdoc TV series involving police, paramedics, surgeons, doctors, rescue helicopters, as well as completed some advertising work. As a passionate environmentalist I have also tried to apply my filmmaking skills to doing pro bono shooting for various enviro orgs such as Bush Heritage Fund, Lock the Gate and SurfAid.
