Trish Fitzsimmons  

Trish FitzSimons is a documentary film-maker, who also has research interests in documentary history, theory and policy and screen distribution. She convenes the Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production.

With a first degree in social history, much of her media work has explored historical themes, including Snakes and Ladders: A Film about Women, Education and History (ABC, 1987), Another Way? (SBS, 1997), Channels of History: A Social History Exhibition (2002) and the book Australian Documentary: History, Practices, Genres (2011) published through Cambridge University Press. Currently she is immersed in a creative research project entitled Time and Tide: The Life of Norman Creek, and developing an exhibition on this theme with the Museum of Brisbane.

Trish completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts on 'voice' in documentary film, explored both in creative practice and theoretically. Her research supervisions include creative research doctorates in the fields of documentary; transmedia; experimental drama; animation and screenplays. She has also supervised research degrees in the fields of media studies and screen histories.

She has also written creative non-fiction in the area of water politics. (8/14)