- Born
- 1961
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Film maker and Photographer
Summary
Tracey Moffatt was born in 1961 Brisbane, where she graduated from the Queensland College of Arts. Her debut film, Nice Coloured Girls, won the Most Innovative Film award at the 1988 Festival of Australian Film and Video. At the same festival, she won the Best New Australian Video award for her 5-minute Aboriginal and Islander dance video, Watch Out. Moffatt also produced Moodeitj Yorgas, which includes interviews, dances, and storytelling by Western Australian Aboriginal women. Her film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990) draws from the 1955 Chauvel film Jedda.
Moffatt's photographic exhibitions include "Some Lads" and "Something More".
Sources used to compile this entry: Horton, David (ed.). The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Vol. 2, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994, p. 711; Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy, [videocassette], Ronin Films, Canberra, 1990. RONIN-FILMS_VIDEO_001, LV1577, Film Archive, AIATSIS, Canberra.


