AQUA LOCI: Overflow

Liz Burke, Peter George, Catherine Gough-Brady

Liz Burke is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Canberra. Her films have been screened at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, and St Kilda Film Festival, among many others. She has had feature and television hour documentary films commissioned by ABC and SBS Television in Australia and funded by Screen Australia and VicScreen. She is a (part time) lecturer in producing at Swinburne University of Technology, in the BA (Film, Games & Animation). She is currently producing the feature documentary, Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration, about disability activist Stella Young. She has also written and directed the interactive documentary; Aliens Among Us (2021), about our relationship with dogs, as part of her practice-led Ph.D. She is the co-editor of Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory.

Peter George is a Melbourne based, award-winning Producer, Writer, Interviewer, Script Editor and Educator. His major credits include the award-winning documentaries Original Schtick (1999), Schtick Happens (2002), The Dream of Love (2005) and The Triangle Wars (2011). Original Schtick won two AFI awards and the prestigious Rouben Mamoulian Award at the Sydney Film Festival. Both Original Schtick and short film William (2006) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and all his films have travelled widely around the globe. In 2014 Peter wrote and produced short film Hope City, which premiered at the 31st Interfilm Film Festival Berlin. Peter has served as Head of Film & Television at JMC Academy – Melbourne since 2012, where he also produces and EPs an array of events, outside broadcasts and other projects. Since 2020 Peter has served as the Chair of the Learning & Teaching Committee. In 2022 he completed the Master of Screen: Business at AFTRS.

Catherine Gough-Brady is an award-winning documentary producer and director who publishes on the relational nature of documentary production processes in journals including Media Practice and Education, Screenworks, [in]Transition, The International Journal of Creative Media Research, and Cultural Geographies. She is co-editor of an edited collection exploring the intersection of theory and practice, Constructing the Real (2023). Catherine produced and directed six ABC TV documentary series, including Legal Briefs (2016) and Ethics Matters (2017). Catherine created 11 radio features for ABC Radio National. Her most recent TV half-hour for ABC TV is called The Communicator (2022). Catherine is Head of Postgraduate Studies at JMC Academy in Australia, and is an associate editor of Screenworks.