Jeni Thornley is a documentary filmmaker, writer and film valuer. Her award-winning documentaries ‘Maidens’, the collaborative feature ‘For Love or Money’, ‘To the Other Shore’ and ‘Island Home Country’ are landmark films in Australian independent and feminist cinema, widely distributed and screened on national television (ABC TV and SBS). Jeni was active in distribution and exhibition at Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative, worked on many independent films, wrote for Filmnews, was Manager of the Women’s Film Fund and Project Coordinator, Documentary (AFC). Jeni lectured in documentary at UTS from 2002-2013 and completed her doctorate. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the School of Communication, UTS, writes about film regularly and is distributing ‘Memory Film’ with Antidote Films.