The Nawarddeken Story

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During Maggie Miles’ twelve years in the Northern Territory she had an Award-wining stint as Artistic Director of Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, where she wrote the acclaimed plays BRANDED and Worry Dolls. Maggie was Company Director and Senior Producer of Burrundi Pictures, a co-producing entity on the groundbreaking feature Yolngu Boy which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. Maggie produced the features Van Diemen’s Land, The Turning, Paper Planes, Force Of Destiny, Guilty which she co-wrote, and High Ground on which she was also a script consultant. Maggie directed the documentary Dare to Be Different, a special version of which aired on ABC Compass and was voice director on the Kunwinjku and Ngukurr Kriol language versions of Little J & Big Cuz.

Mitzi has been working in the film industry for over 35 years. Alongside her production career she has worked in the academy teaching documentary production and screen studies at Murdoch University WA and later, as Co-Head of Documentary at the national film school, AFTRS for 6 years. Mitzi’s credits include: as Producer – KaChing! Pokie Nation; Night Parrot Stories; Memoirs of a Plague; End of the Rainbow. As Director – Jez: A Letter for life; A Common Purpose; Chinese Take Away; Hatred and as Executive Producer – Knowing the Score, How to Thrive, Incarceration Nation; Backtrack Boys; Undermined: Tales of the Kimberley; Leunig Fragments; Zach’s Ceremony; Constance on the Edge; I Am a Girl; Surgery Ship. Mitzi co-founded and is the CEO of Documentary Australia, which has developed a new paradigm for funding and outreach of social impact documentary films. Documentary Australia is a not for profit building collaborations between philanthropy and social impact documentary.