Bessie is an award-winning Social Impact Filmmaker with a background in Journalism. She has worked on a number of short films and documentary projects. Her feature Tunnel Vision (2016) screened in eight countries and continues to receive attention as an education resource. More recently Bessie has helped roll out the impact campaigns for 2040, The Australian Dream and In My Blood It Runs.
Bessie is passionate about capacity building and creating a more equitable media industry in Australia. She helped manage the social enterprise film production company Youthworx for a number of years and is a founder of Brunswick Friends of the Forests. Bessie is a great believer in the power of documentary to amplify and create social movements and agrees that climate change is the most pressing issue of the 21st century.