Rapid Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
Alexandra Edmondson is a storyteller working across film, theatre, audio and digital art. She lives and works on Larrakia country, in the far north of Australia. Alex began her career working in script development at Bazmark, Baz Luhrmann’s Sydney based film production company; and as a reader for major production companies in Australia and the UK, including Universal Pictures, Focus Features and ITV. As a filmmaker, Alex produced the documentary Amye Number 1, which is available worldwide on Al Jazeera. Alex wrote and directed The Burnt Cork, a confronting portrayal of 1950′s rural Australia, which was nominated for the SBS Television Award at the St Kilda Film Festival and won the Black Shorts Award at Adelaide Shorts Film Festival. The Burnt Cork was broadcast on SBS Television in Australia. It sold to a number of broadcasters including Shorts International in Europe, Africa and the USA. It is available to stream on Indieflix and Amazon Prime. Alex also wrote and directed The Passenger, which screened at festivals and was broadcast on ABC in Australia. Alex is now developing long form narrative projects, several of which have been shortlisted for awards and development labs including the prestigious Sundance Screenwriters Lab. She is also currently developing new works for theatre with support from the Browns Mart Theatre Build Up initiative and the Erin Thomas Regional Playwright fund. Her work was recently a finalist in the Northern Territory Literary Awards. Alex has worked as a story producer for SPUN:True Stories from the Territory, a live storytelling event and podcast, and has collaborated with artist Kate Fennell on multimedia installations, for the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Casula Powerhouse, Beams Festival, Factory 49 Gallery and Airspace Projects in Sydney. Her creative non-fiction work has been published in the North American Review and short-listed for the Terry Tempest Williams Prize.
Wolfgarden is the work of writer and filmmaker Alexandra Edmondson, a cross-platform storyteller working in film, theatre, television and digital media
Research, script analysis, brainstorming, note-taking for: Southern Star Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) The Full Box Beyond Productions Australian Film Syndicate Company B Sydney Theatre Company Universal Pictures Focus Features ITV Comedy Goalpost Pictures Lion Rock Films Fremantle Media
Research and script development on: AUSTRALIA (2005-8) ALEXANDER THE GREAT (2003-4 – unproduced screenplay) ⇒ contributing to story discussions and undertaking small writing jobs ⇒ making changes to the script during production and distributing to cast and crew ⇒ researching a wide variety of subjects through interviews, sourcing written and visual material, examining archival material and building an extensive resource database to provide the foundation and inspiration for the above screenplays. ⇒ reading submissions and providing feedback to the company about writers with whom they may wish to collaborate in future. ⇒ preliminary development of a number of other projects for the company ⇒ assisting in the writing of articles and speeches ⇒ taking notes in story meetings
⇒ co-ordinating tape library consisting of thousands of video tapes ⇒ building and updating a footage database ⇒ acting as a point of contact for clients wanting to buy footage ⇒ negotiating prices for footage with clients ⇒ conducting footage research for clients
⇒ assisting the marketing manager in all aspects of marketing a theatre production, including the design of promotional material ⇒ organising the printing and distribution of promotional material ⇒ acting as a point of contact for local newspapers and tv stations reviewing or advertising theatre productions ⇒ conducting surveys with audience members