Addressing Unfinished Business

Amanda King is an Australian filmmaker who has been producing documentaries since the late 1980's. Her interests range from contemporary issues such as the environment, Indigenous rights and independence struggles, through to the arts and labour history. She works closely with her partner, Co-Producer and Cinematographer Fabio Cavadini, and they have done for over three decades, as the partnership Frontyard Films. They have produced a number of documentaries about community struggles in the Pacific – in Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville. Titles include Time To Draw The Line, Colour Change and An Evergreen Island. Over the past decade they have worked with the MUA Film Unit's Jamie McMechan, producing numerous short videos about issues facing the maritime industry and others taken up by union members. In 2018 they co-produced, filmed and edited BUWARRALA ARYAH Journey West with director, Gadrian Jarwijalmar Hoosan from the Borroloola community. In 2019, their documentary The Great Strike 1917 screened at the Antenna International Documentary Film Festival. Their most recent environmental documentary, WHERE THE WATER STARTS was completed in late 2021 and is showing via FanForce.