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MS ROSLYN WALKER



Contact Details

Organization: Victorian College of the Arts
Position: LECTURER IN FTV (PRODUCING)
Email:
Work: 96859061
Fax: 96859001
Level: 01
Building: VCA School of Film & TV
Campus: Victorian College Of The Arts

Biography

Roslyn's credits include Co-Producer on the feature Peaches starring Hugo Weaving and Jacqui McKenzie and Producer of telemovie Baby Bath Massacre. She has produced two documentaries, Portrait: the making of Portrait of a Lady- an intense study about Jane Campion's work with Barbara Hershey, Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich, and Thread of Voice, a documentary about experimental voice artists ARF ARF. She produced the short films Mr Electric starring Ernie Dingo (AFI Award for Best Short and Best Short Film Melbourne International Film Festival). Lost with Helen Morse and Sheep.

Roslyn was Manager of Film Victoria from 1998-2002 responsible for managing investment, script and professional development for Victorian film and television projects. Previously Roslyn had worked as Acting Executive Producer at the community video organisation Open Channel. Roslyn has co-written a feature film Batavia. which is in development, was script editor on the feature film Blue Rose and is co-writer on a documentary series script The Fireside History of Deadly Diseases. Roslyn is Victorian Chapter Head for the Screen Producers Association of Australia and previously was a board member for Women in Film and Television and Melbourne Fringe.

Currently Roslyn is Line Producer on a feature documentary Not Quite Hollywood about the genre cinema of Australia in the 1970's. She is financing a feature film The Floating World which Palace Films will release in Australia with cast Elena Anaya, Vince Colossimo and Ben Mendelsohn. She is also developing a feature film with writer Stuart Page about the Ern Malley poetry hoax called Black Swan and was funded through Film Victoria to attend the prestigious European script development program Sources 2 in Berlin and Sweden in 2006.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Film and Television production Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Letters (Honours) University of Melbourne 01-Mar-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Screen Producer's Association of Australia Victorian Chapter Head 15-Mar-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Australian Film Institute AFI Award Best Short for "Mr Electric" (Producer) 19-Nov-1994
Other (Award) Australian Teachers of Media ATOM Award Best Tenage Program for "Baby Bath Massacre" (Producer) 18-Mar-1995
Other (Award) Melbourne International Film Festival OCIC Best Short Film for "Mr Electric" (Producer) 16-Jul-2005
Other (Award) St Kilda Film Festival Best Direction in a Short Film for "Sheep" (Producer) 14-Aug-1993
Other (Award) New Zealand Music Awards Best Video Clip for Straightjacket Fits "Bad Note for a Heart" (Producer) 03-Aug-1991
Other (Award) Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland Silver Leopard Award for "Lost" 23-Mar-2002
Other (Award) Melbourne International Film Festival Best Australian Short for "Lost" 05-Aug-2000

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2005

Creative Works

  • Dominic and the Flippers
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Dominic and the Flippers
    Publisher: Film Victoria(Melbourne)
    Authors/Performers:

Publications in 2004

Creative Works

  • Black Swan
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Black Swan
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Film Victoria(Melbourne)
    Authors/Performers:
  • Stand Still
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Stand Still
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Traffic Accident Commission
    Authors/Performers:

Publications in 2003

Creative Works

  • Peaches
    Year: 2003
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Peaches
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Hopscotch(Sydney)
    Authors/Performers:
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