About

As a child I always loved storytelling. I’d create hand drawn magazines with colourful made up stories (I remember one with villainous monkeys wearing gas masks), I penned sci-fi and horror short stories and I cajoled my brother and friends from the street to record radio plays I’d written on an old cassette recorder. I’ve always found it a thrill to think up a story and then see it come to life as I imagined it and touch an audience.

I gained a wealth of experience as a computer programmer and systems analyst, then as a management and communications consultant and trainer. But I increasingly found myself longing to tell stories again; to reconnect with what I find innately joyful. I joined the Jakarta Players community theatre group and started directing and acting in plays. I taught myself to make dramatic educational videos to enliven the training programs I was writing and teaching. Soon my training clients started asking me to make documentary-style films for them, leading to many wonderful film making experiences all over Indonesia. I loved making films so much I got myself properly qualified in Sydney Australia and I haven’t looked back, making more than fifty films for good causes over the last few years.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree at Imperial College London and the University of Warwick, UK

Master’s degree at the University of Warwick, UK

Film making and acting training at Sydney Film School and the Actors Studio, Sydney.

More of my story here.