Love in full colour

Suzi Taylor’s love of filmmaking first manifested when she was six years old, making music videos in the backyard with a dressed-up family cat and a reluctant little sister, dancing around a ghetto blaster in front of a camera balanced on a tree stump. Since then, Suzi has maintained a mission to create entertaining, compelling, unique films that celebrate the human spirit.

Suzi’s work experience has spanned running a school on a remote Aboriginal community to running a busy production company in Melbourne and producing a weekly radio show on activist community station, 3CR. Suzi’s debut documentary 'Damo' won Best Documentary at the St Kilda Film Festival, ‘Best Australian Film’ at the International Big Issue Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Open Channel film festival. During her three years working as a producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Suzi was awarded ‘Best New Talent’ for her film and radio documentaries at the ABC’s national awards. Other recent achievements include winning an SBS/Noise award for her multimedia project 'Utopia' about her experiences of teaching on a remote Indigenous community.

See more of Suzi Taylor’s projects here: www.fingerprintproductions.com.au and watch Suzi's ABC films here: www.vimeo.com/abcopenalburywodonga

Suzi has collaborated extensively with diverse communities on various media, including working with Burmese youth on a multiplatform documentary project for the Centre for Multicultural Youth, and producing more than 20 short films with Adnyamathana and Alywarre communities in the Northern Territory. For the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, Suzi worked as a researcher on Australia’s first ever TV series on Indigenous languages, hosted by Ernie Dingo and broadcast in 2014. She later teamed up with First Languages Australia and pioneered a national project called ‘Mother Tongue’ through the national public broadcaster ABC, which generated over 70 Indigenous language stories for television and radio across the country.

With a tertiary background in anthropology, education and screenwriting, Suzi has developed a versatile and strong skill set as a writer, director, producer and editor. She has produced a diverse slate of films, including a short romantic comedy starring the late “Bud” Tingwell; a mockumentary that was shortlisted for the world’s largest short film festival, Tropfest 2013; animations; TVCs and numerous documentary films for Video Education Australasia.

Suzi is driven by a strong sense of social justice and the belief that stories can change the world. Her creativity and ability to tackle big issues as well as navigate the intricacies of human emotion make her a perceptive and innovative storyteller. She is currently working as a journalist and acting editor for the Australian Education Union in Melbourne, Australia.