ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
"Frontier Documentaries" is the freelance production house created by Lucinda
Gamble who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts - Film and Television school completing the Documentary Film post
graduate in 1999.
Since leaving VCA Lucinda has been kept busy with video projects in Melbourne and the tropical far-north
of Australia. The projects have involved many different sectors of our community from perfomance art, the environment,
education, social justice and welfare issues.
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Lucinda has solid experience in field producing, writing, directing and editing with an accent on work with
performance art, not-for-profit government and community organisations. This work is balanced with pursuing development
funding for documentary ideas in the North of Australia.
BACKGROUND
Lucinda has been involved in documentary and video production since 1996 when she was offered a position as the PA
to the Commissioning Editor of Arts and Entertainment at ABC TV. Her role developed into field producing for the book show
"Between the Lines" producing two short segments per week.
She left ABC TV and transferred to ABC Radio as Broadcaster
for the Kimberley region in NW Australia. This brought her closer to the social and environmental issues which further fuelled
her determination to capture many of these stories as TV documentaries, as so many of the important issues were dealt with
in a very superficial manner by the media. She was then head-hunted by PRK Radio, an aboriginal media association in Halls
Creek, North of the Tanami. In this time she made two educational videos, one on the Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media
Association and one on her experiences in Halls Creek.
She applied and was successful in 1999 for the post-graduate
Documentary filmmaking course at the Victorian College of the Arts where she produced "The Nature of Paradise" as her graduation
film. This film was selected to screen at the "Sustainable Living Festival" at Federation Square Feb 2003. Lucinda's two documentaries
made since VCA "Our Future is in our Hands" and "Kimberley Country" have both been selected for the National lending library
at Federation Square by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
As well as running the video production side of
her company Lucinda is also working with a variety of Documentary Producers collaborating on some documentary ideas that SBS
and Film Vic have expressed an interest in.
