Author Archives: laura

We’ve just finished making some videos for Australia for UNHCR, thanking their monthly donors for their contributions and showing them that they do make a difference to the lives of refugees.

Working with Catharine Campbell from Nine Lanterns, I just finished editing a series of videos for the Kids Matter Primary website, showing how KidsMatter Primary is a mental health and wellbeing framework for primary schools, proven to make a positive difference … Continue reading →

FIRE STORIES: A LESSON IN TIME, which I directed and edited, can now be viewed via the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute website. People can now also read all the stories that people submitted about their experiences. We collected so many interesting and … Continue reading →

FIRE STORIES: A LESSON IN TIME is back by popular demand. After the highly successful screening in Katoomba for upper mountains residents, the people of the lower Blue Mountains requested another screening.  The film showed on 27 July at the Glenbrook … Continue reading →

FIRE STORIES: A LESSON IN TIME showed in five packed screenings today at the Edge Cinema. In spite of rain in the morning, hundreds of people turned up to see the film in the large 350 seat Imax cinema. Emergency services … Continue reading →

The publicity is out. FIRE STORIES will be screening at the Edge Cinema in Katoomba on June 2! Not only does the film celebrate the resilience of the community that faced the massive Leura fire in 1957, but also gently … Continue reading →

Today we filmed an interview at Perry’s Lookdown with Ivan Thelander, who was one of nine teenage boys who got caught in the Grose Valley fire, two days before the great Leura bushfire of Dec 2, 1957. The devastating blaze … Continue reading →

I’ve conducted research interviews with some key characters for our film, but we’re sure there are a lot more stories out there. Our publicist Yvonne Hellmers placed a story in the Blue Mountains Gazette to ask for people’s recollections and … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked by the Blue Mountains World Heritage institute to direct and edit a documentary about the great Leura bushfire of 1957, the worst bushfire in NSW history, when 200 houses, shops and schools were destroyed.  Glenn Meade from … Continue reading →