Phoebe Hart’s book Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens: Docu-maniadelves into the profound industrial and personal hurdles that filmmakers encounter as they navigate the ever-growing global fascination with documentary films and series, striving to bring captivating stories to screens both small and large. Chapter 1 is available for free on Film International now, and there are some kind reviews for the title (published by Bloomsbury) by Sol Ricco in Journal of Public Interest Communications and by Nur Kareelawati Abd Karim in Media Practice and Education.

In the final season of Game of Thrones many viewers found the Battle for Winterfell episode rather dark. Dr Hart was interviewed by ABC News to answer why. She also spoke with Jessica Riga at ABC News for an article about the appeal for audiences for long features like The Batman and bingeable TV series.

Phoebe published a guide on the 2024 Oscar nominees for Best Documentary in an article for The Conversation. She then and went on to contribute to The Conversation’s monthly streaming television round-up each month for all of 2024. In April, she turned her critical lens on Netflix’s reality competition series, Blown Away 4, and found that while there’s nothing particularly new about this season, it’s still a fun watch. In May, she wrote about the second series of Alone Australia on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and became one top 5 most-read institutional authors.

In September of 2024, Phoebe reviewed the Netflix docuseries The Man With 1,000 Kids and found it to be a compelling exploration of fertility fraud in the digital age, packed with plot twists and ripe for discussion. She shone a light in October on the fierce and unyielding world of K-Pop through Netflix’s Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE, which follows 20 ambitious young women vying to claim their spot as finalists in a thrilling global competition. Phoebe Hart contributed to The Conversation’s monthly streaming round up in November again when she reviewed the unhinged HBO docuseries on Binge, Chimp Crazy. Check it out!

Phoebe Hart analysed a 'pantheon of pashes' and 'small-screen smooches' in her article for The Conversation entitled Everybody wants this – what makes a great TV kiss? And check out her views on Stan's Nugget Is Dead, which brings queer love, multiculturalism and Aussie flair to the Christmas movie formula.

Phoebe was proud to be a part of the Darlington Statement, wherein 20 intersex organisations and individuals met to formulate a consensus statement on the human rights of people with variations of sex characteristics in Darlington, Sydney on Thursday 2 to Frday 3 March 2017. The statement has had a meaningful and positive impact on advancing intersex human rights, acting as the key framework for legal, medical, and social reforms for people born with variations in sex characteristics in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We also gathered for a two-day retreat on 9 to 10 April 2018 in Erskineville, NSW. You can access the report here. Individuals and organisations are encouraged to affirm the statement as allies.

Film Fantastic Ltd. appointed Phoebe Hart to its Board of Directors in 2024. Film Fantastic Ltd is the not-for-profit organisation behind the popular Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF) and Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). The 2026 Gold Coast Film Festival, which ran Wednesday, 22 April to Sunday, 3 May, continued its strong commitment to celebrating local and international cinema, spotlighting Queensland filmmakers while also presenting a diverse range of global works. The festival featured a dynamic program including a red carpet opening with Wolfram, the closing night Australian premiere of the adventure documentary Don’t Be Prey, and a special screening of Beast, showcasing leading Australian talent.

Opening Night GCFF 2026 with Film Fantastic board members Brett Thornquest, Lynne Benzie and Luke Wheatley and Warwick Thornton and Deborah Mailman. Photo credit Chris Hyde.

Dr Phoebe Hart’s article Disruptive docs: teaching hybrid documentary filmmaking in Australia was published in a special issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema. It was co-authored with Drs Sean Maher, Freya Wright-Brough, and Sue Cake and was presented also at the 2022 Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association conference, investigating spiral curriculum film education & co-creation with students.

Phoebe Hart’s documentary Bloody Sun was in Official Selection at the Nightmares Film Festival, and screened on Friday 22 October 2021 as part of the festival's Short Documentary program. The Nightmares Film Festival (known as the ‘Cannes’ of Horror) occurs in Columbus, Ohio (US) at the renowned Gateway Film Center, and showcases films from around the world. Bloody Sun follows the Australian horror filmmaker Chris Sun as he creates a creature feature about a giant killer bush pig gone wild. The short documentary took over 5 years to complete. The film credits include Tfer Newsome (sound design), Paul Van Opdenbosch (animation) and Yanto Browning (music composition).

For Intersex Awareness Day 2021, Phoebe wrote about her experience of intersex community, friendships and activism for Archer Magazine. Archer is an award-winning print and digital publication that publishes first-person writing, art, and commentary from LGBTIQA+ perspectives. Phoebe aslo wrote an article for Archer in 2015 called Into the Light, which featured some pretty photography by Hannes Caspar. Phoebe also featured in an article by Samantha Prendergast for Frankie called Let's Get Real about documentary filmmakers, which included a nice portrait taken by Natalie McComas.

Phoebe featured in Frankie, Issue 59 May/June 2014

Phoebe's short documentary Lost for Words was presented to the 2012 cohort of the Aphasia LIFT at the University of Queensland School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and received an outstanding response. The film focuses on a program to rehabilitate people who may have suffered a stroke and lost one our most human traits: the ability to communicate.

Filmed in front of a live studio audience Save Your Life Tonight is a unique new series that takes the top 10 health issues facing Australians today and explores them in an interactive and entertaining way... hartflicker served as an associate producer on this Wildbear Entertainment production for ABCTV - and the series which aired first on Sunday, 14th of December 2014 at 6.30pm and repeated several times since (including Thursday 7 March 2019).

Handbag: The Untold Story of the Fag Hag is a documentary about the iconic friendship between gay men and straight women, as told by Monica Davidson and three generations of "fag hags". Handbag raised over AU$50,000 in much-needed production funds via the film's loyal community and Documentary Australia Foundation, Australian Cultural Foundation, Pozible and Kickstarter! You could see the final result on OUTtv in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, USA and Canada and Australians were able to view it on SBS On Demand. Ahead of its screening on Saturday 25 February on SBS Viceland at 8:30pm, the doco received some pleasing coverage across a broad range of media including Woman's Day, Sydney Morning Herald, and TV Tonight. 

On the set of Handbag, Sydney Australia. Photo credit Phil Erbacher.

In collaboration with Pip Kelly, hartflicker crafted a number of video installations for Queensland Museum's "What Do You Collect?" exhibition and Lost Creatures exhibition. See some excerpts online - Graham from the Carina Men's Shed, Tigerlil, who collects religious iconography and recreating the Lark Quarry dinosaur footprints.

Phoebe Hart has executive produced a number of exciting short documentary films produced by emerging filmmakers. After being selected for Lift-Off Melbourne, The Buyback, about how the world's oldest rainforest got put up for sale, was a semi-finalist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Student Academy Awards. Each year, college and university students from all over the world compete for awards and cash grants in the Student Academy Awards, with films being judged in a variety of categories. Uncovered Lives (director Kai Wharton) reveals the truth behind transgender healthcare in Australia, and was selected for Changing Face IFF Student Film of the Month, Student World Impact Film Festival, PRIDE Queer Film Festival, Geelong Pride Film Festival, Pink Lobster: New Brunswick's lgbtqia2+ Film Festival in Canada and Silicon Valley Queer Film Festival in the USA.

Other short film successes EPed by Hart include Splendour in the Mud (selected for Changing Face International Film Festival, where it won an award for Best Editing) and River & House (selected for Australian Independent Film Festival and Near Far Festival). The High Preistess was officially selected for the EMERGE! Student Short Film Gala at the Gold Coast Film Festival and Don’t Let the Neighbours Hear directed by Lexie Lownie won Best Australian Short Documentary at the SWAN Perth International Women in Film Festival. Kimberly Henderson directed of a film about slam poet (and comedian) Anisa Nandaula called Finding a Voice, which won Best Documentary at the Australian Women's Film Festival. Life After Deaf (director Kai Giovanni) was a semi-finalist at the Australian Independent Film Festival and officially selected for the Sparrowland Short Film Festival.

Remedy Blues, In Bardo and Bustard Head all won Best Tertiary Documentary at the ATOM Awards over consecutive years. The latter film on the gruesome true history of an isolated lighthouse directed by Lucy Lakshman also won the Next Best Gen Award at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival. In Bardo - directed by Travis Vetier on Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal - was selected for St Kilda Film Festival and the Australian Independent Film Festival. Arsenic (directed by Callum Page) on Brisbane's iconic drag mother Mama Arsenic was selected for several film festivals and The Greatest Battle Lies Within, which chronicles the life of Congolese-Australian writer Future D. Fidel, screened at Brisbane International Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival and won a prize at the Brisbane Backyard Film Festival.

With co-organisers of Endslate, Christopher Cosgrove and Tfer Newsome

hartflicker ran a successful Pozible campaign with Pip Kelly to finish a heartwarming documentary film they produced Thomas Banks' Quest for Love assisted by the Creative Partnerships Australia MATCH funding program which provides up to $10,000 of in-principal matched funds. Thomas Banks' Quest for Love has gone on to win a slew of awards including best short film at Mardi Gras Film Festival and the audience pick at Melbourne Queer Film Festival, which is the largest queer film festival in the Southern Hemisphere. The documentary screened in competition Official Selection at Frameline 43 in San Francisco, which boasts annual attendance ranging from 60,000 to 80,000, making it the largest LGBT+ film exhibition event in the world and was a finalist for the Iris Prize, the world's largest short film prize. And you could have watched the film on Stan (but it's too late now)!

A flyer used during the fundraising campaign for Thomas Banks: Quest for Love

Phoebe has twice presented a conversation around filmmaking and intersex as part of Robson Fellow Program at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. The Robson family are well-known medical leaders and longtime supporters who generously contribute to the College's mission. The program itself brings together amazing academics, professionals, and artists to the heart of the college, where they mentor students, share their expertise, and help enrich life after university.

As a member of the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association Research Sub-committee, Phoebe Hart and her co-editors proudly published various issues of Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy Journal. The publication highlights creative works that demonstrate the unique insights that can be gained through hands-on engagement with screen production practices around the world.

Phoebe hosted 'The reading hour: Love, lust and loathing' in 2012. After hours at State Library of Queensland gets risqué! Warm up this winter with a night of intimate readings from some of Brisbane's most amorous authors Venero Armanno, Kris Kneen and Sue McPherson as they share their tales of love gained, love lost and those you love to hate. A National Year of Reading event. Saturday 25 August 2012, 7.30pm - 9:00pm, The Red Box, Level 2, State Library of Queensland.

Orchids: My Intersex Adventure took out Best Documentary (General) at the 2010 ATOM Awards and won best film by popular vote at the 2010 Brisbane International Film Festival. Phoebe Hart was awarded Best Direction in a Documentary (Stand Alone) at the 2012 Australian Directors Guild Awards for the film Orchids: My Intersex Adventure, which screened on ABC1 10pm Sunday 29 January 2012.

Orchids: My Intersex Adventure received a AACTA Award nomination for Best Documentary Under One Hour. The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award (previously the Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards), is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the IF Awards 2011.

Phoebe was invited to present Orchids: My Intersex Adventure in person at Adelaide Film Festival, Mardi Gras Film Festival, Mix Copenhagen, Hamburg Queer Film Festival, Pornfilmfestival Berlin, BFI London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (now known as BFI Flare), Citizen Jane Film Festival and Outfest Los Angeles. It's been broadcast on ABC1, TVE Spain, Swedish Educational, Schweizer Fernsehen, ARTE Germany/France, Showtime USA, France Télévisions, DBS Israel and ArtMedia (Eastern Europe). It's distributed by First Hand Films and Women Make Movies. Follow the the film's progress by liking the Orchids Facebook page.

Phoebe Hart participated in a discussion after a screening of the legedary sci-fi classic Bladerunner which showed as part of the UR{BNE} 2012 Festival about urban design, architecture, public spaces and collaborative design. Bladerunner was the final film in the series chosen by audience vote. Phoebe explored how imagined architecture imitates real life and vise versa. Does imagined architecture shape real architecture?

Phoebe Hart won a Highly Commended award in the Shoot the Architect Portrait Prize at theRoyal Australian Institute of Architects for her photograph "After Hours Architecture". In 2011, hartflicker helped out Queensland's flood survivors, producing a training video for architects on assessing homes affected by inundation and natural disaster in partnership with Emergency Architects Australia, Royal Australian Institute of Architects and Archicentre. You can see the image on our Photography page.

Phoebe Hart is a proud member of the QUT Queer Research Group, and on the executive committee of the QUT Centre for Justice. After all, it's all about diversity, equity and inclusion!

Phoebe Hart with QUT Pride Network members Jen Kaighin and Ricky Tunny

Congratulations to BIFFDOCS 2011 winner Arirang. Submitted by one of South Korea’s most celebrated filmmakers, Kim Ki-duk, Arirang is a disturbing autobiographical statement that has been described as the absolute and final expression of a filmmaker. The 2011 judges for BIFFDOCS were Richard Moore, Head of Screen Culture and BIFF director; Mark Lewis, the celebrated documentary filmmaker, producer; David Tiley, documentary filmmaker and editor of online screen journal Screen Hub, and hartflicker's own Phoebe Hart, winner of the 2010 BIFF Showtime audience award for her production Orchids: My Intersex Adventure.

The Australian Directors Guild and Griffith Film School presented Directing the First Person Documentary, a conversation with directors Phoebe (Orchids: My Intersex Adventure), Peter Hegedus (My America) and Cathy Henkel (The Man Who Stole my Mother's Face) followed by a Q&A, 30th August 2011.

hartflicker edited a film on the making of Swamp Cartography, a collaboration with porcelain designer Shannon Garson and jeweller Rebecca Ward, and went classical producing video clips for Exaudi Australis and the Australian Vocal Arts Ensemble. And congratulations to the Queensland Music Festival for breaking the world record for largest orchestra in 2013 - 7223 musicians in total! hartflicker was there covering the QMF with Vizible Entertainment.

hartflicker produced and directed a range of English language education videos for Spotlight Verlag (ZEIT Sprachen) in early 2010. ZEIT Sprachen is a prominent German media company and publisher that specialises in contextual foreign language learning.

Phoebe Hart had the opportunity to review an exciting new feature documentary about British musical pioneers Cymande called Getting it Back: The Story of Cymande for Film International. You might not recognise the band's name, but you would know their music... it's a unique mix of funk, soul, jazz, rock, Caribbean calypso, and African rhythms.

hartflicker's Phoebe Hart spoke about her career and life experiences at TEDx Youth Brisbane on Sunday 20 November 2011 at The Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland. The whole presentation was captured and can be viewed on YouTube. She was also interviewed by ABC's Richard Fidler for the wildly popular podcast series Conversations in 2010.

Phoebe on the TEDx stage

A short documentary, The Making of Sons of Matthew (director Debra Beattie, producers Beattie and Wendy Rogers & editor hartflicker's Phoebe Hart) will be screened at the Gallery of Modern Art as part of the 2009 Brisbane International Film Festival on Sunday 2 August at 15:00. The film focuses on the pioneering film directed by Australian film icon Charles Chauvel, and it is based upon the struggles of the O'Reilly family who settled the wild, mountainous rainforest of Mt Lamington, Queensland more than a century ago.

hartflicker presented a retrospective of work at VOL06 of PechaKucha Night, Wednesday 25th June 2008 at the Turbine Hall, Brisbane Powerhouse. If you've never heard of it before, PechaKucha (Japanese for "chit-chat") is a highly structured storytelling and presentation format where a speaker shows 20 slides for exactly 20 seconds each. The slides advance automatically, forcing the presenter to be concise and keeping the total runtime to exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Helen Yeates is a wonderful author and film academic who supervised Phoebe's groundbreaking doctoral creative practice thesis Orchids: Intersex and Identity in Documentary. Phoebe made a lovely little doc about Helen's inspiring career for the launch of The Helen Yeates Award for Excellence in Media Education, presented by ATOM Queensland. The honour celebrates outstanding media arts, film, and television educators who have made meaningful contributions to the industry and truly inspired their students.

Phoebe and Helen with other legends of media arts education (L-R) Jennifer Summers, Ruari Elkington and Aimee Gust

Phoebe is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Phoebe Hart published research in Media Practice and Education (Taylor and Francis) with colleagues from the Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association (ASPERA) exploring the challenges of teaching film during the darker days of COVID-19, when the whole world flipped to working online. If anything like the pandemic happens again, Phoebe and her co-authors recommend a balanced and responsive approach to prepare graduates with the tools they need to adapt to changes in the screen industry and meet students' evolving expectations regarding how content is delivered.

Sister of hartflicker and Sydney's best-known stylist to the stars is Sophie Hart. She provides high-end design, styling, and creative consultancy for major brands such as Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Tourism Australia. I particularly like the Fashion With A Conscience campaign that Sophie did for the Salvos. Another sister of hartflickerBonnie Hart is Deputy Executive Director of InterLink and is regularly on the radio giving interviews. Phoebe and Bonnie contributed to the polarising All of Me teaching resource created by Safe Schools Coalition. Many applauded the resource as a necessary anti-bullying program that promoted inclusion of LGBTIQ+ students, while critics argued it introduced age-inappropriate ideas about gender and sexuality into schools. Here's what The Guardian said about it.

Sophie Hart profiled in print

Fraud affects millions worldwide, but myths and negative stereotypes about victims persist. Brave individuals share personal stories to challenge these misconceptions. Phoebe Hart joined a discussion on media representations of fraud victims, particularly in romance scams at QUT Gardens Theatre on Tuesday 27 August 11am - 1pm. Along with Stephanie Wood, Tracy Hall, Cassandra Cross and Laura Vitis she revealed how offenders manipulate victims and examine the impact of media narratives on support for victims.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia published a fun 15-year retrospective story about Roller Derby Dolls and where some of the main characters are now. Phoebe was interviewed for the article by Amal Awad and spoke about the making of the film as well as her own foray into skating on the derby track. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s national audiovisual cultural institution. In addition to keeping items safe for future generations, the curators at NFSA are always adding new stuff to the collection to make sure it showcases the amazing creativity and diversity of Australia.

Phoebe also got on the roller track herself for a few seasons, skating for the Northern Brisbane Rollers (NBR), a women's flat track roller derby league based in Queensland, Australia. Let the good times roll!

Phoebe with the ladies (including Glasgow Kiss, Tinkerbell, Naughty Annie, Ariel, VD, Reaver and others) from NBR. Photo credit Richard Tompsett.

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Ever had a range of design furnishings named after you? hartflicker's Phoebe has. Introducing the Phoebe lamp by Peter Harding and Åsa Jonasson. The perfect gift, whatever the occasion!

Phoebe Hart, proprietor and agent provocateur of hartflicker, was awarded the Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship, the funds from which greatly helped to her to complete a doctoral thesis and creative practice project at the Queensland University of Technology, where Phoebe continues to teach. Clare Burton was an inspiring woman, who made a major contribution to equity in Australia.

Phoebe Hart was on the winning team of a comedy debate panel entitled "Future Sex" on 19 May 2011 at The Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland as part of the Ideas Festival, and previously at the same festival was among a panel of experts at the to to examine the question 'Beyond size 0 – is anything real?' on Saturday, 28 March 2009, 6:00 - 7:00pm, State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 2, South Bank Cultural Centre, Brisbane. And speaking of ideas, in 2010/11, hartflicker shot for ABC's Big Ideas... a space for intellectual, political, cultural and economic debate in Australia.

Yippee! Nudge's Tale took out top gong in the Tertiary category at the 2008 Riverfestival Liquid Lens digital media competition. Nudge's Tale is an animated adaptation of Bridgette McKelvey's childrens book of the same name, which was inspired by true story of Nudge, a baby dolphin whose life was imperiled when his tail became caught in a fishing net. Bridgette used photography and childrens literature as a means to educate children about environmental issues. Bridgette worked with Phoebe Hart to produce the film adaptation, and the star of the film is Bridgette's daughter, Jemma, who narrates Nudge's story. Congratulations to Bridgette, Jemma, Craig and Nudge!

Phoebe Hart reviewed an exciting documentary on British musical pioneers Cymande in Film International, a journal featuring contributions from esteemed scholars and journalists that explores film culture in the broader context of society's culture, history, and economy. While the band's name may not be familiar, their musi, which is a unique blend of funk, soul, jazz, rock, Caribbean calypso, and African rhythms, certainly is.

Traje was selected for the Tri-Continental Film Festival to tour India - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata - from January 21 to February 5, 2006. Initiated in Latin America in 2002, South Africa in 2003 and India in 2004, the festival was an annual platform for narrative, documentary, feature and short length films in the 3 continents. Traje was also selected to participate in the Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival, November 18 - 22, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA and screened at the European Culture Festival, which was part of the European Social Forum in Malmö, Sweden at 4:00pm on Friday 19 September, 2008 at the Cinema Möllan (Leonard / ex-flower shop), Claesgatan 8. hartflicker coordinated the Australian leg of the Other Worlds are Breathing 2005 Film Festival. The festival ran in Brisbane, where it was screened in 10 sessions over three days 2 - 4 March 2006 at The Loft, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology.

With the volunteers of Other Worlds Are Breathing Film Festival

Phoebe has also contributed to QUT's festival of technology and creativity CreateX.

Melvin's Disablity - a mockumentary of a man living with pipes for arms - made its small screen debut on MRCTV, Channel 31 Adelaide at 9:30pm on Sunday 10 September 2005. Melvin's Disability was also accepted into the Fake Film Festival at the Adelaide International Film Festival, and was screened on Saturday 26th of February 2005 at 18:45, where it won a Faker Award.

KIDS TV!!! Woohoo! From May until July 2005, and August to September 2006, hartflicker director Phoebe Hart acted as field producer on preschool-age television program New MacDonald's Farm. The program is produced by Pacific and Beyond (now Beyond International) for the Nine Network. hartflicker also regularly coordinated a number of local content productions for Turner Entertainment Asia's Cartoon Network. She also wrote on Series 1 and 2 of The Workers, designed for an early-childhood audience.

As part of the 2005 Brisbane International Film Festival (27 July - 8 August 2005), hartflicker designed and coordinated two workshops for Cine Sparks - the Australian Film Festival for Young People. The workshops examined the angles various media organisations take in presenting issues to broadcast audiences as news and documentaries. Phoebe also moderated a panel at the Brisbane International Film Festival "Industry Day" at the QUT Kelvin Grove campus on Friday 22 October 2022 on the topic of Documentary Film and Storytelling.

How do you sing when you can't hear? The answer is that you use sign language. hartflicker volunteered her services to the deaf community at the Woodford Folk Festival working with the AUSLAN Dancing Hands troupe 27/12/05 - 2/1/06. The result was a wonderful, heartwarming video. Phoebe also made a short documentary Shangri-la, which is the story of two masseuses working at the festival, whcih appeared as part of the finalist program of the Spirit of Woodford Competition in Queensland, Australia.

Some of the action at Woodford Folk Festival

The Full Kombi played on ABC nationally as a half hour in 2000 and as an 'uncensored' full hour in 2001. It was one of Phoebe's first Producer credits (as well as one of her first small screen debuts). The Full Kombi follows the exploits of five hardy travellers cruising around Tasmania in a yellow VW kombi van called "Jean". There was a great website developed as part of the broadcast (with a tell-all Q&A about what really happened between Frank and Phoebe) but it's sadly been decomissioned. A fan uploaded a VHS recorded promo clip for the show that aired on TV. And yes, we met as potential racers on Race Around the World.

Some of the press around the broadcast of The Full Kombi

hartflicker acted as the Australian production unit on a major American feature documentary entitled It/ll Be Better Tomorrow. The documentary is directed by Michael W. Dean and is about the on the life and death of Hubert Selby Jnr, prolific author of drug epics such as Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn. hartflicker shot an interview with Aussie author Luke Davies, who penned the heroin-biography Candy. The world premiere of It/ll Be Better Tomorrow was at the 31st Deauville American Film Festival in France on Saturday 3 September 2005. It/ll Be Better Tomorrow also appeared the 10th Revelation Film Fest in Perth, Australia on Saturday July 21, 2007.

Ever experienced the ButtMachine? hartflicker had a hand editing this video clip by That1Guy (a Woodford Folk Festival favourite) produced by Browndog. Fun fact: ButtMachine also closes out Ep 9 of Series 3 of the hit Showtime US series Weeds!

Dumpster Divers and Traje appeared in the Other Worlds are Breathing Film Festival (organised by the Magic Lantern Foundation) in both 2004 and 2005 World Social Forums respectively. Further information about the World Social Forum 2005 in Brazil, where Traje screened, can be found here. hartflicker hosted the Australian leg of the travelling package of the Other Worlds are Breathing Film Festival in Brisbane in 2006, and exhibted a range of activating films to an eager and receptive local audience.

Polymptics is a series of short satire videos produced by hartflicker (mostly notably by Bonnie Hart AKA 'Loln' who is now a noted intersex rights activist) during the lead up to the Australian Federal Election in 2004. In a notable episode shot at a live punk concert with Aussie rockers Frenzal Rhomb, former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard goes for a stage dive and comes a cropper in the mosh pit. This riviting piece of filmed political art performance was featured on the (now defunct) Time To Go John anti-Howard website.

WildFury Productions' (now Wildbear Entertainment) Veronica Fury co-produced The Embalmer with Phoebe and Bonnie Hart, which screened nationally on ABCTV's George Negus Tonight on 17/12/04. Phoebe also field directed on Veronica's 2011 ABC3 kids factual series Dancing Downunder.

Trevor Hart Quartet did the music on a pre-hartflicker short film called A.M., which was made by the Hart sisters and friends many a moon ago now. Trevor also makes a very fine cheese at the Cedar Street Cheeserie.

Our Place was produced with the assistance of a scholarship administered by the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre which conducts valuable research into Indigenous culture, environments and architecture both in Australia and abroad.

Team Plastique were some weird and wonderful mates of hartflicker. Now no more, TP were an art-band from Brisbane relocated to Berlin whose crazy antics often include cling wrap, whipped cream and lots and lots of gaffer tape. Check out what I mean here. They were also the subject of a mini-doc that hartflicker produced for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's now defunct digital youth channel Fly TV.

Big thanks go out to Gavin Sade for his amazing help in constructing this website. Gavin is an interactive design guru, teacher and researcher. He co-runs an interactive design company with his partner Priscilla Bracks called kuuki. Some of their interactive videos were edited and composited by hartflicker, including Disco Puppy: Stayin' Alive, which showed initially at the Ipswich Art Gallery from 22 November 2008 to 1 February 2009 and then toured nationally.

Check out Phoebe Hart's book review of the title Intersex by Catherine Harper and Women's Experimental Cinema edited by Robin Blaetz in M/C Journal. M/C Journal (short for Media and Culture) is a fully blind, peer-reviewed academic journal focused on media, internet, and cultural studies. Also her review of Curating the Moving Image by Mark Nash for Media International Australia.

Good Neighbours (directed by Phoebe Hart and produced by Tiziana Ferrero-Regis and Zoe Mellick) launched at QUT Centre for Justice and QUT Design Lab’s Design for a Just World event. This collaborative symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, and communities to explore how innovative design can address pressing global and local societal challenges to build a fairer, more sustainable future. The film and the important issue it highlights - the shipping of donated clothes from Australia to Pacific islands that struggle with the influx of fast fashion - got some much-needed exposure in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Zoe, Phoebe and Tiziana - some of the team of Good Neighbours

hartflicker designed a website FOC for the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia Inc, and since helped out with the volunteer led organisation's updated website and rebrand Intersex Peer Support Australia. In 2020, she was awarded an honourary lifetime membership for two decades of service to the intersex community in Australia.

Phoebe proudly judged competitive categories for and appeared on panels at the West End Film Festival, a grassroots Australian short film competition and cultural event held annually in Brisbane’s vibrant West End.

Phoebe Hart was excited to deliver at the 2022 QUT Women in Research Showcase and a keynote presentation on her life and work at the Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) Symposium in 2023, and was was especially honoured to be preceding the amazing Jelena Dokic. Other presenters included Anyier Yuol and Lisa Cox, who are forging a deeper conversation around inclusive leadership in the workplace!

Phoebe had the opportunity to present her research on female voices in Australian indie low-budget cinema, co-authored with Dr. Marilyn Leder, at the SRN Screenwriting Research Network Conference in Vienna. It was intriguing to hear colleagues discuss similar studies in Portugal, Finland, and Sweden, revealing that gender equity remains a challenge in the screen industry.

What's it like growing up queer in Austalia? Phoebe Hart contributed a chapter Boobs, Rags & Judy Blume to the anthology Growing Up Queer in Australia edited by Benjamin Law and published by Black Inc. The anthology was reviewed by Books+Publishing, The Newtown Review of Books, ArtsHub, Kill Your Darlings, Right Now Magazine, The Adelaide Review, Medium and Sydney Morning Herald and Phoebe spoke at Brisbane Writers Festival about the book and her experiences along with Law and other conributors. Black Inc. relicensed the chapter for Growing Up in Australia, the definitive anthology in the ‘Growing Up’ series with chapters from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Growing Up in Australia captures diversity in moving and revelatory ways, featuring excerpts from Australian memoirs such as Rick Morton’s 100 Years of Dirt and Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning. Co-contributors include Tim Winton, Anna Goldsworthy, Nyadol Nyuon, Tara June Winch, Miranda Tapsell, and Carly Findlay with a foreword by Alice Pung.

Phoebe loving being in print in Growing Up In Australia

Phoebe Hart was a panellist on the Mentoring for Women panel at the 2024 Australian Academy of Cinematic and Television Arts (AACTA) Festival. The AACTA Festival is Australia’s largest public celebration of screen culture, offering a multi-day, immersive experience for film and television fans, creators, and industry professionals. Held annually on the Gold Coast, the event brings together tens of thousands of attendees.

It was a sad day when Ten axed the long-running kids TV show, Totally Wild. I loved cutting my teeth as a young writer and producer on the series working alongside some top folks! Totally Wild was a famous Australian children's television show that originally aired on Network 10. Hosted famously by Ranger Stacey (Stacey Thomson) with a banging theme tune, the series ran for almost 30 years and focused on wildlife, the environment, action sports, and technology.

Phoebe was a very pleased to contribute a chapter to Documentary and Disability, edited by Catalin Brylla and Helen Hughes. A great review for the book by Alison Wilde can be found here. Phoebe also contributed two chapters for the book Directing for the Screen edited by Anna Weinstein and one for New Philosophies of Love and Sex edited by Sarah LaChance Adams, Christopher M. Davidson and Caroline R. Lundquist.

Dr Agapetos Aia-Fa'aleava's PhD (supervised by hartflicker's Phoebe Hart and visual artist Leah King-Smith) creatively explored Samoan culture and tattoos in her thesis and considered who should and shouldn't be allowed to wear the malu. She was interviewed on the popular ABC radio show and podcast Stories from the Pacific presented by Bobby Macumba and with the host of Breaking Waves, the podcast on all things Moana.

Choreographer, curator and art maker Dr Jonathan Homsey was another of Phoebe's doctoral students. His thesis Locating Choreographic Empowerment With Soft Participation explores dance's impact on the well-being of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) and LGBT+ communities.

Other doctoral students supervised through to completion include Dr Sue Cake’s DCI thesis Narrative Comedy Screenwriting, which was awarded an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2018. Dr Amanda Levido’s PhD thesis The Implementation of Media Arts in Australian Primary Schools led Dr Levido to find full-time employment as a research fellow at ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, creating positive digital childhoods for all Australian children.

We don't know who wrote it (and it's a bit outdated), but Phoebe has her own page on Wikipedia.

And finally, meet the official mascot of hartflicker - Chacho (RIP):

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