Australian Film Television and Radio School

I left Sydney in 2017 just to explore different projects and different cultures and different countries to work in, which has been great.

But yes, this drew me back mainly because of the people that were involved, because of the story, It's such an important novel and obviously a very important film, one that I studied myself at AFTRS when I was doing my master's.

Oh, really? It's a very important work, but this is obviously an evolution from that.

It's a standalone piece, and the fact that it was historical was even more attractive to me.

I left Sydney in 2017 just to explore different projects and different cultures and different countries to work in, which has been great.

But yes, this drew me back mainly because of the people that were involved, because of the story, It's such an important novel and obviously a very important film, one that I studied myself at AFTRS when I was doing my master's.

Oh, really? It's a very important work, but this is obviously an evolution from that.

It's a standalone piece, and the fact that it was historical was even more attractive to me.

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So Dr. David Court was my lecturer at AFTRS.

Yeah.

He ran that unit and he now runs the Compton School, which is a great resource for... filmmakers and he talks about psychic income versus fiscal income you know in the corporate world and accountants are black and white you know profit and loss etc but psychic income for us could be winning a film festival or winning an award but it can also be just feeling the energy in the room it can be somebody In the audience going, that film has changed me.

I worked in reality TV for a while.

And then that led me eventually to AFTRS, which is the film school, which is where I met Steph.

And we sort of had a bit of an affinity for a certain type of cinema and storytelling and joined forces.

But maybe you can give your backstory.

Time jump.

Yes, we're now Badlands now.

Prior to that, did a master's at AFTRS.

And then before that, I was working as a writer at advertising companies.

They're working overnight or they're, you know, digitizing stuff and their job is much more managerial than it is, you know, involved in this creative decision making.

That generosity that you have and the way that you give feedback to those young editors, it really reminds me of your teaching style because you were head of editing at AFTRS for whatever it was.

Three years.

Three years only.

This is true.

I saw Australian Film, Television and Radio School, which was also in Ride.

Yep.

I saw that every day when I went to uni and I went home to my mum and I'm like- I want to go there because that's what I want to do.