Author Donna McRae

Donna McRae

Donna McRae is a filmmaker that holds a PhD and is a Lecturer in Film & Television at Deakin University, Melbourne. Her first micro budget feature film, Johnny Ghost (2012) was selected into numerous film festivals locally and internationally, winning seven awards including Best Female Director, Best Feature and two Special Jury Prizes. Currently she is involved in a female horror anthology film, in post-production on a feature documentary about a chimpanzee called Cobby: The Dark Side of Cute and in development for her next feature film Kate Kelly, a western about Ned Kelly’s sister which was selected for Frontieres Co-Production Market in Montreal, Canada 2016. Donna is now in pre-production with her second feature film Lost Gully Road.

Who’s Knocking in My Little House? Ursula Dabrowsky’s Inner Demon (2014)

Donna McRae

December 2016

Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic

Abstract >> In the dead linen in cupboards, I seek the supernatural - Gaston Bachelard For a female filmmaker to forge space in a male dominated filmmaking industry and make a horror film on her own te...