Author Sian Mitchell

Sian Mitchell

Sian Mitchell is a Lecturer in Film, Television and Animation at Deakin University, Australia. She is also the Festival Director and co-founder of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, an annual festival showcasing the work of Australian, Aotearoa New Zealand and Pasifika women and gender diverse screen creatives. Her research in areas of film festivals, the Australian moving image and women’s screen practice has been published in journals such as Camera Obscura, Historic Environment, and Peephole Journal, as well as online for the AFI Research Collection and the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra.

Island Home Country

Sian Mitchell

October 2024

CTEQ Annotations on Film

In revisiting Jeni Thornley’s 2008 documentary essay film, Island Home Country, I am struck by the thematic parallels between her personal journey to uncover the Indigenous past of where she grew up in Tasmania...

Generational Feminisms: the 45th Festival International de Films de Femmes

Sian Mitchell

May 2023

Festival Reports

As a director of a women’s film festival here in Melbourne, the opportunity to attend the world’s oldest, still running women’s film festival – the Festival International de Films de Femmes (FIFF) – in Cretéil ...