Professor Trish FitzSimons

Brief description

Trish FitzSimons is a documentary film-maker, who also has research interests in documentary history, theory and policy. 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. Trish completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts on 'voice' in documentary film, explored both in creative practice and theoretically. She has also recently written creative non fiction in the area of water politics.