I’m a narrative screenwriter / director and former international journalist.
I’ve worked in film and journalism for the past eleven years, first as a researcher on documentaries and later as a director/producer with ABC TV’s Foreign Correspondent and ABC Radio National. I’ve produced programs from Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa and Antarctica.
As a freelance foreign correspondent based in Spain I reported on terrorism in France and Spain, Brexit, climate refugees in west Africa, women’s rights in Morocco, cyber warfare in Estonia and politics in UK, Spain, Greece and Hungary. While abroad I worked for ABC, BBC, Slate, Al Jazeera English and Atlantic Media. I’ve been a finalist in the UNAA Media Peace Awards and the mid-year Walkley ICRC Humanitarian Storytelling Award.
In the past 4 years I’ve transitioned to narrative screenwriting and directing. In 2021, my debut drama Baltasar (a Spanish-Australian co-production) premiered at the 69th edition of MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) where it won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado award for Best Australian Short Film. In 2022 Baltasar won the St Kilda Film Festival awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay and earned a Jury Special Mention at the Festival Internacional de Cine Lanzarote. I was awarded Best Director (short film) at the 2022 Australian Director’s Guild Awards. I’m an alumni of the MIFF Accelerator lab and the Black Factory Cinema workshop in Cuba with Werner Herzog.
I’m developing a narrative feature film about Afghanistan for Causeway Films with the support of Screen Australia and Screen NSW as well as an episodic drama for Television/VOD.