Su Goldfish
Bachelor of Arts, UNSW Sydney, 1978
Graduate Diploma Arts Management, UTS, 1997
Graduate Certificate Documentary, AFTRS, 2010
Su Goldfish is manager of the Creative Practice Lab at the University of New South Wales.
UNSW Creative Practice Lab (CPL) is a specialised arts unit within SAM that supports teaching and practice-led research across a diverse range of disciplines. The CPL manages the School's performance venues, rehearsal studios and technical resources. CPL staff are industry professionals, technical magicians, filmmakers, producers, sound makers and production designers. We work closely with students, researchers and artists to develop new work and we program a range of inspiring events throughout the year.
Su is responsible for producing the program of events and productions, lectures and talks that come from teaching and research in the School including UNSWriting.
Su is also an independent filmmaker. Her most recent project is the feature documentary, which she wrote and directed, The Last Goldfish which premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2017 and has screened around the world. Info: https://www.thelastgoldfish.com/
Between 2011 and 2014 Su co-produced on behalf of UNSW the adaptation of three of artist William Yang’s performance works into television documentaries screened on ABC-TV and in film festivals locally and internationally.
Su studied documentary at AFTRS (2010).
FILMOGRAPHY
2017 Director and Writer
The Last Goldfish – Documentary
81 minutes
Editor Martin Fox
Producer Carolyn Johnson Films
Premiered Sydney Film Festival 2017
2014 Co-producer for UNSW
William Yang: Blood Links – Documentary
60 minutes
Director Martin Fox
Producer Felix Media
Writer William Yang
Premiered Brisbane Asian Pacific Film Festival. Screened on iView for ABC Arts
2014 Co-producer for UNSW
William Yang: Friends of Dorothy – Documentary
57 minutes
Director Martin Fox
Producer Felix Media
Writer William Yang
Premiered at Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival 2014. Broadcast on ABC1 Arts and iView.
2013 Co-producer for UNSW
William Yang: My Generation – Documentary
57 minutes
Director: Martin Fox
Producer: Felix Media
Writer: William Yang
Premiered Sydney Film Festival in 2013. Broadcast on ABC1 Arts and iView.
2011 Writer/Director/Producer
Trace – Short Documentary
5mins
Editor Maria Barbagallo
Composer Liberty Kerr
Premiered Sydney and Melbourne Jewish Film Festivals, screened at Cockatoo Island Film Festival, West End Film Festival, Brisbane and the Dortmund Film Festival, Germany.
Shortlisted and exhibited in the 2012 Fisher's Ghost Art Award and exhibited at the Museum of the History of National Socialism – Cologne
2009 Writer/Director/Producer
Ciao Meow
Premiered Mardi Gras Film Festival and screened Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Winner Queer Pet Project - Mardi Gras Film Festival.
http://sugoldfish.com/
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The Last Goldfish Awards
Sydney Film Festival - Audience Award (2017)
Winner Foxtel Movies Audience Award for Best Documentary Top Ten
New York Independent Film Festival (2018)
Best Foreign Documentary Feature and Best Script Documentary Feature
Gender Bender International Festival , Bologna (2018)
Audience Award for Best Film
Professional Member Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
Queer Screen
Performance Space
2018 Board member ReadyMade Works - A not-for-profit organisation that provides programming and studio space support for the independent dance community in Sydney.
2003-8
- Vice-President on the board of Queer Screen.
Queer Screen produces the Mardi Gras Film Festival and the international queer documentary film festival QueerDoc.