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Beck Cole (AUS )
Writer & Director
Independent

A screenwriter and director of drama and documentary and graduate from AFTRS, who started her career as a TV journalist for Imparja television, working for ABC TV and then Central Australian Media Association (CAAMA).

These experiences instilled in her a desire to tell strong, issue based Indigenous stories for the screen. Her award winning drama and documentary work has screened all over the world, they include her feature Here I Am, short films Plains Empty & Flat,  documentaries’ Making Samson & Delilah, First Australians and The lore of Love and Wiriya; small boy.

Beck directed on three seasons of the AACTA award winning sketch show Black Comedy, the Children’s TV series Grace Beside Me, Little J & Big Cuz, The Warriors, Redfern Now, The Mustangs and Channel 7’s upcoming drama series Between Two Worlds. Beck has also recently directed two seasons of multi award winning TV drama Wentworth.