Spotlight on Women Directors: Hannah Dougherty
As part of a regular series with Free The Bid Australia, Campaign Brief shines the spotlight on top female commercials directors in Australia and New Zealand…
Hannah Dougherty is a director at Velvet.
Hannah Dougherty is a passionate filmmaker working predominantly on short films, fashion films, television commercials and music videos. Hannah’s passion for filmmaking has seen her working all over Australia as well as creating music videos and campaign films in New York and Paris.
Three best spots:
1. ‘Mates‘
2. ‘Theo and Celeste‘
3. ‘Spaceman Jones‘
Her first role in the industry was designing animated television commercials and since then she worked for various post production companies for an array of different clients and taken on the roles of writer, director, cinematographer, animator, editor and even actor.
Her mission has been to learn the many languages of film in order to communicate with her cast, crew and audience to create engaging stories and this has seen her working with a variety of storytelling mediums from live action and hand painted animation to puppetry.
Hannah has had four short films selected to screen in international film festivals such as Down Under Berlin, Vancouver International Film Festival, IndieFlicks UK, Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival and the Utah Arts Festival with ‘Mates‘ receiving an award at Vancouver International Women In Film Festival.
Her most recent film ‘Theo and Celeste‘ won the People’s Choice Award at IndieFlicks UK and is currently on the festival circuit after having been chosen to screen at TEDxSydney 2018.
Says Dougherty: “I am fascinated by stories that examines human nature, stories that provide an opportunity for the audience to connect to the characters, each other and themselves in a way that might have otherwise been closed to them, a chance to see the world from a new perspective. Film enables people to lose themselves and dissolve in magic and wonder and be transported to a different world and I want to harness that ability to tell human stories that touch the heart. I like to do challenging work that explores new ways to tell these stories, be it visually or tonally.”
Contact EP Rona Lewis – rona@velvet.la.
Since launching a year ago, Free The Bid has 200 Australian Women Directors on its searchable database. Free The Bid now has over 20 major agencies that use the database to find the right director for each of their projects and have committed to putting one female director in the mix for every job.
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These are very funny. Nice work.