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Trish FitzSimons

Trish FitzSimons is a documentary filmmaker, social historian and exhibition curator: Snakes and Ladders was her first film and her introduction to the world of documentary filmmaking. Her documentary work since has been very diverse and includes Another Way?, made for SBS Television and with the support of the Criminology Research Council. For the last twenty years or so Trish's productions have usually found their audience via social history exhibitions: Channels of History (State Library of Queensland 2002-05) and Navigating Norman Creek (Museum of Brisbane 2015).

Trish is currently (2021) developing a major cross media history entitled Fabric of War - A Hidden History of the Global Wool Trade with Madelyn Shaw.

Together with Pat Laughren and Dugald Williamson she wrote Australian Documentary: History Practice Genres (Cambridge University Press 2011).

From 1992 until 2020 she worked full-time at Griffith University in the film school. She is currently (2021) an adjunct professor of the Griffith Film School.

Filmography

SNAKES AND LADDERS »

A FILM ABOUT WOMEN, HISTORY AND EDUCATION. Drawing on interviews and a striking selection of archival footage, this film reveals the expectations and achievements of women who have struggled to gain a tertiary education - and the reality of discrimination...