Awards
Finalist, Women in Film & Television (WIFT, Abu Dhabi) short script competition – UAE, 2011
Short listed New Writers fellowship – Film Victoria, 2010
Canadian International Annual Film Festival, CIAF, Ontario – “Life’s Little Dramas” short film (Winner Best Student Film, Best Student Script) 2006
Best Post Graduate Script – Kodak Script Prize, Victoria College of the Arts 2004
Industry experience:
Personal Videographer for His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan 2011 - 2104
David Moore Design and Films 2006 - 2011
Teague Moore Design – CEO and Lead Designer/Art Director 1992-2003
Rob Bayley Design - Graphic Designer for Sydney Olympics bid & Cameron Macintosh Productions (Phantom of the Opera, CATS and Les Miserable) 1991-1992
Typefounder’s Pty Ltd - Typesetting/Composition Apprenticeship 1986-1990
Academic positions
Digital Film and Video (School SCD)
RMIT Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2021 – Present
Senior Film and TV Lecturer
Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT Abu Dhabi Women's College)
, abu Dhabi
2019 – 2021
Professional Communications (School SCD)
RMIT Vietnam
, Vietnam
2017 – 2019
Applied Communication Film and TV Academic Coordinator
Higher Colleges of Technology,
, Abu Dhabi
2014 – 2016
Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT Abu Dhabi Women's College)
Senior Film and TV Lecturer
, Abu Dhabi
2010 – 2017
Short Course Manager
Victoria University
Melbourne, Australia
2000 – 2002
Non-academic positions
Director of PSA Commercial
Abu Dhabi Autism Centre
, abudhabi
2013 – 2013
Art Director/Graphic Designer
ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Screen Ed. magazine
, Australia
2006 – 2011
Teaching interests
Film and Video Production – drama and found-footage films, Screenwriting and Film Theory
Research interests
Experimental Screenwriting/Digital Screenwriting
Found-Footage Films/Experimental Short Films
Video Essays/Digital Papers/Kino Papers
Screenwriting Practices