Joan Evatt

Joan Evatt tweets as @boeufblogginon

PET HATES: Bios.

Student Activist in the late 60’s and early 70’s. How could you not be?

I’m still doggedly swimming against the tide.

WORK (1970s and early 80s):

Industrial Officer then Federal Assistant General Sec, Actors’ Equity;

Ch 7 in News, Current Affairs, Willesee when we shot news on film;

Freelanced for Film Australia, Digby Wolfe Productions, E-News.

Discovered I preferred to be behind the camera instead of in front of it.

Set up post-production & production company VISUALEYES Productions (1984-2005).

Won a number of awards for our short issue-based trigger films of which I’m still very proud. They include:

Doggo Goes to Court (Australian Teachers of Media, ATOM);

MainStreet: PRIA Bronze;

Shotlister, the Movie: Chicago Short film-Bronze, NY Short Film Festival-Finalist, PRIA Gold award, and a few others I’ve forgotten;

Race Against Prime-Time: a short film on colour blind casting made for Actors’ Equity, financed and launched by the FFC, won a number of awards also forgotten.

Post-Produced a large number of the documentaries seen on the ABC, SBS and

Free-To-Air commercial TV during the 1990s until 2005.

For the last 11 years I’ve been teaching at the Petersham Media Centre, TAFE.

I’ve been married to His Nibs a few months shy of forty years. I know, I know, but I do like

him.

And in answer to two questions still commonly asked – Yes I am an Evatt and we’re all

related. No, I am not a lawyer. I just seem to have a plethora of legal subjects acquired in

various qualifications and a half-finished law degree.

I’m also potty-mouthed.

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