Trisha Morton-Thomas

Patricia Morton-Thomas, usually credited as Trisha Morton-Thomas, is an Australian writer, producer, director, and actress. Her first role in a feature film was in Radiance (1998), the first feature film by director Rachel Perkins. Morton-Thomas and Rachel Clements co-founded filmmaking company Brindle Films in Alice Springs in 2011.

Early life

Morton-Thomas[1] grew up in Alice Springs and the remote Northern Territory. She is an Aboriginal Australian of the Anmatyerr people.[2]

Career

Morton-Thomas started her career at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) in 1983, where she worked as a volunteer radio announcer and later as a cadet journalist until 1990 when she moved to Darwin to work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation there.[3]

In 1991 Morton-Thomas moved to Sydney with her good friend Rachel Perkins, who, she says, "dragged me along with her".[4]

In Sydney she worked with the newly-formed Bangarra Dance Theatre as a sound technician, collaborating with David Page on the soundtrack for Bangarra's first ballet, Praying Mantis Dreaming. In 1993 she studied with Noel Tovey in the Uta Hagen acting technique at the Eora College for Performing Arts.[3]

After finishing at Eora College, Morton-Thomas appeared in Radiance in 1998, directed by Perkins. She played the main character, Mae.

Filmography

Awards

• 2018: Winner, ATOM Awards (Australian Teachers of Media Awards), Best Indigenous Video or Website, for Occupation Native (2017)
• 2018: Nominated, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Documentary, for The Songkeepers (2017)

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