Monday, 21 August 2006
6.30pm — 8.30pm
ArtHouse Hotel
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Topic: “History of filmmaking in Sydney — finding a way in difficult times”
Guest Speaker
Martha Ansara
Martha, recipient of the Australian Film Institute’s Byron Kennedy Award (1987), is a documentary filmmaker whose films on social issues have won international prizes and been screened in Australia, the UK, Europe, and North America.
A full member of the Australian Cinematographer’s Society (ACS), Martha was one of the first women in Australia to work as a cinematographer. She is a graduate of the AFTRS (1978), has an MA in Applied History (UTS 1994) and is a member of Ozdox, NSW Cinema Pioneers, The Archive Forum, and the Film & Broadcast Industries Oral History Group.
Martha has worked as a project officer for the Women’s Film Fund of the AFC, as an assessor for the AFC and other film organisations, and lectures at UTS, AFTRS, and the Australian Teachers of Media. She is a film valuer for the National Film & Sound Archive, a pre-selection panel member for the Sydney Film Festival, and a patron of the Film and History Conference.
Martha’s most recent films as a producer have been Ordinary People (ABC-TV 2002) and I Remember 1948 (2005). As a director, she is currently in post-production on her own high definition short drama Betty & Joe (out soon).