CEO
Documentary Australia
Mitzi has been working in the film industry for over 35 years as a documentary director, producer, and editor. Alongside her production career, she has worked in the academy teaching documentary production and screen studies at Murdoch University WA before being employed as co-head of the documentary department at the Australian Film Television and Radio School for 6 years.
Mitzi has a PhD in Cultural Studies. She co-founded and is the CEO of Documentary Australia in 2008, which has developed a new paradigm for funding and outreach of social impact documentary films. Documentary Australia is a not-for-profit organization that connects philanthropy and filmmaking to inspire social change.
She has been a board director of the Film and Television Institute in Western Australia and AIDC (Australian International Documentary Conference, where she served as co-chair for 3 years). She was Jury President at Beyond Borders, Kastellorizo in 2023; APSA (Asia Pacific Screen Academy) in 2018 and has participated on juries of film festivals in Australia (SFF, AACTA, ADG, Walkleys, Logies, Persian International Film Festival), in Iran (Tehran International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival), and China (Guangzhou Documentary Film Festival).
