Mitzi Goldman  

Mitzi Goldman is an independent documentary producer and director, CEO of Looking Glass Pictures Pty Ltd and Executive Officer and Director of the Documentary Australia Foundation. She has written, produced, edited and directed documentaries for over 20 years and has a wealth of experience in many aspects of filmmaking and teaching. Her films have been screened around the world in festivals and have received nominations at Australia’s AFI Awards, sold to ABC TV, Channel 4 (UK), and SBS TV and won awards, including an ATOM award for Best Social Issues Documentary and seven international awards for her latest film END OF THE RAINBOX which was a co-production with ARTE, ITVS and SBS. Her previous credits include SNAKES AND LADDERS, THINGS I CALL MINE, MANY HOMES, MANY NAMES, HATRED, PORTS OF DESTINY, PARRA and CHINESE TAKE AWAY.

She has taught documentary production for many years in New York, USA, Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, Sydney College of Fine Arts, and University of Western Sydney and from 2002 – 2008 she was Head of Documentary at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.

Mitzi is currently on the Board of Directors of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC). She has also been a board member of the Film and Television Institute in Western Australia and has served as a jury member of film festivals in Australia, in Iran for the Tehran International Short Film Festival and in China for the Guangzhou Documentary Film Festival.

Mitzi regularly assesses documentary projects for government funding bodies and organizes monthly seminars, screenings and documentary events for Ozdox, the Australian Documentary Forum of which she is a founding member and coordinator.

Mitzi Goldman holds a BA from the University of Sydney majoring in Fine Arts and Philosophy and a PhD from the University of Western Sydney. (8/14)