Stop Stolen Generations is a growing movement against the unprecedented systematic removal of Aboriginal children from their families across Australia. Grandmothers Against Removals are leading this movement.

This video was shot and edited by me under the direction of GMAR in 2015.

3.50mins

On February the 2nd 2015 I was part of a group that held an action at the Australian Open men’s tennis finals. Our aim was to create a media spectacle in order to highlight the torture and abuse happening in our asylum seeker detention centres, particularly on Manus Island, and to express our solidarity with those resisting these conditions inside. It was intended to break through a media blackout and generate international shame for our government on this issue. Within minutes of our action news of it, as well as the issue we were highlighting, went viral.

Manus Island is still in operation today…

Here is our website and a link to the article we wrote about the action.

I shot and edited this video.

4.11 mins.

An innovative community film project produced in 2013 that explores Indigenous Australian’s connections to the rivers and waterways in their country. Indigenous Traditional owners from the Wadi Wadi and Mutthi Mutthi Nations teamed up with environmental NGO Friends of the Earth to produce two short documentaries that present a compelling case for cultural flows: allocations of water that are owned and managed by Indigenous people.

My role was on location sound and assistant editor.

For more information about this issue visit:

https://www.facebook.com/CulturalFlowsFilms

http://www.foe.org.au/water

AQUAPORKO! Throw you legs in the air without a care! from Kelli Jean Drinkwater on Vimeo.

Aquaporko! is the story of Melbourne’s fat femme synchronized swim team sculling, egg beating and high kicking towards their first ever live performance.

My role was on location sound and second camera.

2014.

‘We are the ones we have been waiting for’ – June Jordan

In light of Melbourne’s first ever People’s Hearing into Racism and Policing, IMARA wanted to find a unique way to provide a platform for young people around issues of racism and racial profiling. This video sought to amplify the unheard, derailed and ignored voices in the discussion surrounding racialised policing and racism in Australia – young Black people!

My role was to film and edit the creative vision of Imara Youth Advocacy. Second camera by Areej Nur.

13.38 mins.

2013.

Earthworker is setting up an Australia-wide network of community owned cooperatives, beginning with Eureka’s Future – a worker owned factory to manufacture high quality solar hot water systems in Dandenong, and then Morwell, in the heart of Victoria’s coal-burning LaTrobe Valley.

This video was made for a crowdfunding initiative in 2014. I filmed and edited it under the direction of Earthworker.

6.05mins