Rachel Perkins

Rachel Perkins

Perkins at the 2012 AACTA Awards in Sydney
Born Australia
Occupation Producer, director, writer
Parent(s) Charlie Perkins, Eileen Perkins

Rachel Perkins is a film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She is known for her films Bran Nue Dae (2010), Radiance (1998) and One Night the Moon (2001). Perkins is an Arrernte woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by Eileen and Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins.[1]

Biography

Perkins 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.

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.[2]

She served a Commissioner with the Australian Film Commission from 2004 to 2008, and since 2009 has been on the board of Screen Australia.[2]

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.[3][4]

Filmography

Awards

Australian Film Institute

Australian Writers' Guild

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

References

External links

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