Films
Since Laura’s first film success in 2006 with The Mirror It Makes she has made a number of shorts expanding her skills in directing, producing, scriptwriting, cinematography and editing.
During her degree in New Media Arts at The Australian National University, Laura completed courses in video, digital compositing and directing. Laura received First Class Honours for her short documentary Chatting With Bill and accompanying thesis Documenting the Rural Way: Filmmaking Style, Practices and Ethics in Representing Rural Australia.
Laura’s first feature A Farmer Abroad is currently in the post-production phase and should be ready for release in early 2013.
You can find more of Laura’s titles below:
- A Farmer Abroad (2013) — the story of one farmer’s trip of a lifetime to Europe. See more.
- Chatting With Bill (2011) – a man and his tractors. Bill Shanley shares stories of growing up on the land, life as a farmer and his hundred plus tractor collection. See more.
- Tense (2010) – do environments hold their memories of days gone by? An exercise in the past, present and future.
- Polarity (2009) – Eb gets the job and she doesn’t get the job. How do her two competing days work out?
- Building Nature (2009) – a hard-working woman wants to disappear to a quiet park to eat her lunch. Little does she know the ever-turning cogs of industry have another idea.
- Imagine (2008) – how do the blind deal with the everyday?
- Birthday Wishes (2008) – we’re ready for a party but no ones home.
- Being Mummy (2006) — the story of a thoughtful daughter dealing with her battered mother and drunken father.
- The Mirror It Makes (2006) – a father and a daughter’s attempt to come to terms with loss and the isolation of the land. See more.