Pat Fiske is a master documentary filmmaker. She has been producing and directing films since the early 1970s and has been a prominent member of Australia’s independent filmmaking community. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Stanley Hawes Award for her outstanding contribution to the documentary industry in Australia at the Australian Documentary Conference in Perth.
Pat has generously agreed to join Tasmanian filmmakers for an evening to discuss her work and show excerpts of her award winning documentaries, including excerpts from Scarlet Film which is currently in post-production.
RSVP on info@wideangle.org.au or 62 238 344
TUTOR BIO – PAT FISKE
In the 1970s and 80s, Pat Fiske was on the boards of Filmnews and ASDA. In 2001-2002 Pat was a Documentary Consultant at SBS Independent for 18 months. And she was Co-Head of the Documentary Department at AFTRS with Mitzi Goldman from 2002 to 2008. The Documentary Department initiated Ozdox, the Australian Documentary Forum, which meets once a month and has been going since 2003. Ozdox is managed by a committee of filmmakers and supported by ADG and AFTRS.
At present she is producing Scarlet Road, Black is Inclusive, executive producing Marco; the lies we tell …, and developing other projects.
Filmography:
Producer: River of No Return (2008), Beats Across Borders (2006), Selling Sickness (2004), Business Behind Bars (2001), a two-part series which won a 2001 Walkley Award.
Director/Producer: Following the Fenceline; Rocking the Foundations, a history of the NSW Builders Laborers’ Federation and the Green Bans, An Artist in Eden, Brainstorm
Director: ’Doc’, a portrait of Herbert Vere Evatt; For All the World to See, a portrait of Professor Fred Hollows; Australia Daze; Night Patrol, Endo What?Co-Director: Woolloomooloo, Leaping off the Edge
(via wideangle.org.au)
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