What I Do
Working in Sydney Australia, I make videos for not-for-profits, charities, government and educators to engage audiences in important stories and issues. My videos can be also designed for websites or training tools. I have over thirty years experience as a freelance video director and editor, working in many different communication styles and filming situations. I also work as a documentary editor. My clients value my ability to take complex topics and make them engaging and easy to understand. I also have a degree in Environmental Science.
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Refugee Nutrition Centre in Kakuma
Last March, on a trip with Australia for UNHCR to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, I filmed in this Nutrition and Stabilisation Centre. These mothers had recently arrived across the border from South Sudan, with their malnourished babies. UNHCR helps … Continue reading
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Back to School
As Australian parents were getting their children ready to go back to school, Australia for UNHCR asked them to also think about refugee children and their needs. I made this video as a gentle way to ask them to help. … Continue reading
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Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya
In March, I travelled with Naomi Steer, Director of Australia for UNHCR, and Elizabeth Mulhall, our Digital Content whiz, to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya to meet refugees, see some of the programs that are run in the camp and do … Continue reading
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Video for Syrian Refugee Winter Appeal
On 18 November, Australia for UNHCR hosted a fundraising screening of “He Named Me Malala”, a documentary about the extraordinary Pakistani girl who survived being shot by the Taliban to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Fantastic film. We showed … Continue reading
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Our ‘Fire Stories’ film got results!
Four months after we showed “Fire Stories” at the Edge Cinema in Katoomba in 2013, severe bushfires struck Blue Mountains townships. On 13 November 2015, in the Katoomba Cultural Centre, the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute announced the results of their … Continue reading
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Australia for UNHCR End of Year 2014
To celebrate Australia for UNHCR’s achievements in 2014, I made this video which was shown in the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney at Christmas as a trailer before the wonderful documentary Constance on the Edge.
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Wolli Creek Valley Tree-Mendous
I recently shot and edited a video for the Wolli Creek Preservation Society, who held a ‘Tree-Mendous Wolli’ Day in July 2014, celebrating the beautiful bushland at the western end of the Wolli Creek Valley threatened by the WestConnex motorway … Continue reading
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Beyond Blue – telling your boss about anxiety or depression
Catharine Campbell from Nine Lanterns directed these scripted dramas about depression in the workplace, looking at people’s fears of telling their boss, but also highlighting workplace obligations to workers’ mental health. We recently finished editing the videos. Beyond Blue is working … Continue reading
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Mercy Ship trailer
Working with Channel 7 journalist James Thomas, I edited an early four minute trailer about the work of the Mercy Ship that travels the West African coast, offering free surgery to people in need. A longer story was later shown on … Continue reading
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Laura Zusters, ZedMedia 