Previously, she was the Development and Investment Manager for Screen Australia’s First Nations Department, where she managed a slate of projects from feature film, TV drama series and children’s animation to documentaries, including We Are Still Here (a co-production between Australia and New Zealand), award-winning TV drama Total Control Series 2, Little J & Big Cuz 3, Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky, Maralinga and a new TV crime drama, True Colours. Angela hails from country New South Wales and is a proud Aboriginal and Maori woman.

She has a background in journalism and has worked at both ABC and SBS. Her proudest
achievement is setting up the first nightly National Indigenous television News service in
2008 as its inaugural Executive Producer, overseeing its rapid growth, including its free-to-
air launch in 2012.

Angela got her start at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association in Alice Springs before travelling the country as a video journalist covering First Nations stories extensively for SBS’ Living Black. Angela has written, produced and directed live election panels, and a one-off travel show, Postcards in Taiwan. In 2012, she wrote, directed and produced a documentary for NITV, called Homelands.

She graduated with a Master of Arts Screen: Business and Leadership at the Australian, Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 2018.  Prior to that, she spent a year in Winnipeg, Canada, working for the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network hosted by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). Angela currently serves on the Academic Board of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA).