Dena Curtis

Dena is an editor and filmmaker. In 2002 she attended Australian Film Television and Radio School where she studied a graduate diploma in Television editing. On completion of this diploma she returned to the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Productions [CAAMA] and worked there for a number of years. Some of her editing credits include Rosalie's Journey, Lore of Love (NIDF Series 6), Willaberta Jack and Cheeky Dog, a documentary in which she also directed.

In 2008 Dena wrote/directed her second film Hush, a five minute narrative film which won the audience award for Best Foreign Short Film at the 2008 Films de Femmes, Créteil France. In 2009 Dena premiered her third short film, Jacob, at Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival, followed by the Melbourne International Film Festival. Jacob won Best Short Drama at the 2009 WOW Film Festival and took out the Gold Shorts Prize at the 2009 Adelaide Shorts Film Festival.
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CREDITS

2007
Editor
WILLABERTA JACK
CAAMA Productions / ABC
Producer: Barbara Clifford
Director: David Tranter
Duration: 25 mins

Editor
FINDING PLACE
CAAMA Productions
Producer: Barbara Clifford
Director: Trisha Morton Thomas
Duration: 22 mins

Editor
WALKING DANCING BELONGING
CAAMA Productions
Producer: Barbara Clifford
Director: Mitch Torres
Duration: 22 mins

Writer/Director
HUSH
Bit of Black Business Drama Series
Film Depot for SBS Independent
Producer: Kath Shelper
Duration: 5 mins

2006
Director/ Editor
CHEEKY DOG
CAAMA Productions
Producer: Barbara Clifford
Duration: 22 mins

Sound Recordist
FINDING PLACE
CAAMA Productions
Producer: Barbara Clifford
Director: Trisha Morton Thomas
Duration: 22 mins

Editor
SUNRISE TO SUNSET
CAAMA Productions
Producer: Barbara Clifford
Director: Allan Collins
Duration: 25 mins

Editor
COOL DRINK & CULTURE
CAAMA Productions
Producer: Rachel Clements/Barbara Clifford
Director: Sonja Dare
Duration: 25 mins

Writer, Director and Editor
National Drugs Campaign
Educational Messages
CAAMA Productions
Producer: Rachel Clements and Dena Curtis
Duration: 3 x 30 Seconds

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OTHER CREDITS

Editor Credits

2006
• National Drugs Campaign Educational video - TEABBA
• Better Place - Jagit Music Clip
• Mistaken - Jagit Music Clip

2005
• Living Country - CAAMA Productions
• Rydin Time - CAAMA Productions
• Black and Dusty - CAAMA Productions
• Lore of Love - CAAMA Productions
• Crook Hat and Camphoo - CAAMA Productions
• Art of Healing - CAAMA Productions

2004
• Mparntwe Sacred Sites - CAAMA Productions
• Karli Jalangu_ Boomerang Today - CAAMA Productions

2003
• Rosalie's Journey - CAAMA Productions
• Diyama Maningrida Soundtracks - CAAMA Productions

2002
• The Hard Word - AFTRS
• Life Goes On – Beccy Cole Music Clip
• The Making of an AFTRS film – AFTRS

2001
• My Mother's Country - CAAMA Productions
• Winyalijji Kumpunta (Smoking the Baby) - CAAMA Productions
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ASSISTANCE EDITOR CREDITS

2004
• Green Bush - CAAMA Productions
• Five Seasons - CAAMA Productions/CBC
• Wirriya_Small Boy - CAAMA Productions/ ABC

2003
• Dhakiyarr vs the King - Film Australia/ ABC

2001
• Beneath Clouds - Autumn Films
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WRITER CREDITS

2005
• Yota Dreaming - CAAMA Productions
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DIRECTOR CREDITS

2005
• Yota Dreaming - CAAMA Productions

2001
• Winyalijji Kumpunta - CAAMA Productions

Filmography

	CHEEKY DOG [from the CAAMA Collection] » Dion Beasley is an Indigenous teenager who is deaf and has muscular dystrophy. He lives with his family in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory...
	EIGHT LADIES [from the CAAMA Collection] » The eight ladies in this film come from Alyawarr Country in the Sandover River region in central Australia, about 250km north of Alice Springs...