| Perth 2024 ISPA Congress– Victoria Midwinter Pitt |
 Victoria Midwinter PittIndependent Director/Writer Victoria Midwinter Pitt is an award-winning documentary film-maker, playwright and theatre director. Victoria trained in directing at London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her first play All the Things I would NEVER Tell You in 8 Songs & 12 Pictures, based on her own accidentally hilarious coming-out story, opened Spain’s Alternativa Festival at the Sala Triangulo and toured Australia. A parallel career in film and TV saw Victoria become one of Australia’s leading documentary film-makers. Her documentary film practice has been in complex historical moments told directly, and only, by the people who have actually lived through them. Her films include Frontier;Rampant-How a City Stopped a Plague;Surviving Mumbai(later developed into the feature drama film Hotel Mumbai);Leaky Boat and Afghanistan-Inside Australia’s War. Victoria’s work has been nominated for UN Media Peace Prizes and two Emmy Awards, and won Australia’s major documentary awards including Walkley, AACTA, SPAA, and the NSW Premier’s History Prize. Her films have screened at the UN and across the world’s major film festivals and broadcasters. Writing and directing the play I’M WITH HER(presenting at ISPA 2 & 3 May) has represented a joyful return to live theatre making for Victoria. Based on conversations with eight extraordinary Australian women in response to #metoo, and focusing on the dark female arts of resistance and counter-attack, I’M WITH HER has been a stand out hit at Australian theatre festivals, performed by diverse casts of local women who are leaders in their fields and their communities All Victoria’s work rests on the power and revelation of first-hand story-telling, and a battle-tested, diamond-hard belief in the intelligence of her audience. Facilitator |
