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Femmes in Film Spotlight Series focuses on empowering and supporting women and femme-identifying students and industry professionals. Our spotlight series features interviews of film students at Swinburne and industry experts. It's a space to discuss what inspires the creative process, artistic and career pathways, current or future projects, and shared experiences in the industry.



Ella Crowley (she/her) is a 19-year-old director, writer and all-around arts-loving person. She is currently studying film at Swinburne University and has written & directed three short films, with one being featured as a part of the Setting Sun Film Festival in 2018. Ella has a great love of visual storytelling and has an avid interest in theatre, having directed two productions. At the moment Ella is directing a short film she wrote as a part of the Advanced Diploma of Film and Television. The film is ‘I Wish I Had a River’ and is about Darby, a dissatisfied office worker with a vivid imagination, who decides to run away from their problems on a homemade boat.



Socials:

@ellaonvenus

@iwishihadarivershort

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Femmes in Film Spotlight Series focuses on empowering and supporting women and femme-identifying students and industry professionals. Our spotlight series features interviews of film students at Swinburne and industry experts. It's a space to discuss what inspires the creative process, artistic and career pathways, current or future projects, and shared experiences in the industry.

Tamara is a 23-year-old film student from Melbourne, Australia. She has had an ongoing passion for creating film and other forms of art since whilst going up. Whether that be forcing her younger sister to act in short clips she directed or writing scripts to someday make. Tamara recently graduated with a bachelor of criminology, is a certified nail technician and is also currently the Producer of Swinburne short film Hide and Scream.

Socials:

@tamararuggiero

@hideandscream_film

@bigmood.nails

Podcast music by scottholmesmusic.com

Femmes in Film Spotlight Series focuses on empowering and supporting women and femme-identifying students and industry professionals. Our spotlight series features interviews of film students at Swinburne and industry experts. It's a space to discuss what inspires the creative process, artistic and career pathways, current or future projects, and shared experiences in the industry.

Madalyn Torcaso is studying a Diploma of Film and Television at Swinburne University. Madalyn began her journey with making films through her beginning with making youtube videos. As she got older she began to realise that she wanted more and started to admire the process of filmmaking. From there she helped work on a Year 11 Media short film 'Kids' and then on her Year 12 Media project 'Stimulation'.

She is currently the Writer and Director of the drama/coming of age short film @latenightknocks, which follows the story of a teenager who is struggling with his mental health and ability to socialise after graduating during lockdown. 



Social media accounts:

Upcoming film: @latenightknocks



Podcast music by scottholmesmusic.com

Femmes in Film Spotlight Series focuses on empowering and supporting women and femme-identifying students and industry professionals. Our spotlight series features interviews of film students at Swinburne and industry experts. It's a space to discuss what inspires the creative process, artistic and career pathways, current or future projects, and shared experiences in the industry.

Isabella is the writer and director of the upcoming Swinburne short film ‘Alien Business’ She has a love for all forms of art, in particular graphic design, fine arts, and of course film making! She first started making music videos with her friends during high school which led her to develop a passion for filmmaking.

She is now currently studying at Swinburne University hoping to gain more knowledge and experience to assist her in her filmmaking journey.

Social media accounts:

Upcoming film: @alienbusinessfilm

Personal account: @issynap

Art account: @restfullizards



Podcast music by scottholmesmusic.com

Femmes in Film Spotlight Series focuses on empowering and supporting women and femme-identifying students and industry professionals. Our spotlight series features interviews of film students at Swinburne and industry experts. It's a space to discuss what inspires the creative process, artistic and career pathways, current or future projects, and shared experiences in the industry.   

Our first episode focuses on Tabitha Hilbig. Tabitha has already completed two certificates and is now studying a Diploma of Film and TV, all at Swinburne. Tabitha is one of the 3 student reps of her class, the dux for her editing unit in semester one, and was supposed to be a volunteer at the Swinburne open day, as well as at MIFF, however, covid prevented both those events. For the last 5 years, she has photographed and video graphed for professional theatre companies, at opening nights, rehearsals, and media events through a theatre journalism website, and has more recently started to conduct her own interviews.

She is currently producing the short dramedy film Work It Out which follows a breakup between a newly accepted law student, and an ostentatious poet.  @work.it.out_official

To follow and see Tabitha's work follow @tabithajphotography

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