Name Rachel Perkins | Role Film director | |
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Occupation Producer, director, writer Parents Charles Perkins, Eileen Perkins Siblings Hetti Perkins, Adam Perkins Nominations AACTA Award for Best Direction Movies Bran Nue Dae, Mabo, One Night the Moon, Radiance, Black Panther Woman Similar People Rocky McKenzie, Jimmy Chi, Deborah Mailman, Charles Perkins, Eddie Mabo | ||
Rachel perkins discusses indigenous filmmaking in australia
Rachel Perkins is an Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She is known for her films Radiance (1998), One Night the Moon (2001), Bran Nue Dae (2010), and Jasper Jones (2017). Perkins is an Arrernte woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and his wife Eileen.
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- Rachel perkins discusses indigenous filmmaking in australia
- Art afterhours rachel perkins
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- Awards
- References
Art afterhours rachel perkins
Early life and education
Perkins was born in Canberra in 1970. She is a daughter of Charlie Perkins and granddaughter of Hetty Perkins, and has Arrernte, Kalkadoon, and German ancestry. Her sister is Hetti Perkins, an art curator. For schooling she and her sister attended Melrose High School.
At the age of 18 Perkins moved to Alice Springs and entered into a traineeship at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.
Career
In 1992 Perkins founded Blackfella Films, a documentary and narrative production company creating distinctive Australian content for television, live theatre, and online platforms, with a particular focus on Indigenous Australian stories. Its productions have included multi-award winning seven-part documentary series First Australians, television film Mabo, and TV series Redfern Now.
She served as Commissioner with the Australian Film Commission from 2004 to 2008, and since 2009 has been on the board of Screen Australia.
She was also curator for the 2009 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival. This tenth anniversary of the festival held at the Sydney Opera House featured the premiere of Fire Talker, a documentary film about her father Charlie Perkins by Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen.
Since 2015, Perkins has been the president of the AIATSIS Foundation, which is part of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Personal life
Perkins has a son, Arnhem, with her ex-husband filmmaker Richard McGrath.
Filmography
Awards
Canberra International Film Festival
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
IF Awards
Melbourne International Film Festival
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival
Tudawali Film and Video Awards