Spotlight on Women Directors: Mairi Cameron
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…
Mairi Cameron is a director at Taxi Film Production.
Three best spots:
2. Sunday Best
Queensland-based director Mairi Cameron has just released her first feature film, The Second in cinemas nationally and on streaming platform Stan. The Second is one of eight feature films nominated for Best Australia Feature Film for the Screen Producers of Australia Awards.
Mairi’s career spans over a decade of experience directing short films, music videos and television commercials. Her short film Milk was selected for official competition at Cannes, won prizes at Palm Springs and Bilbao and was pre-selected for an Academy Award. She’s directed clips for some of Australiaʼs premier music artists, including Washingtonʼs Sunday Best which won Triple Jʼs ʻMusic Video of the Yearʼ. She has a slate of long-form projects in development including an adaptation of American novel, The Secret Lives Of Dresses. Mairi is also passionate about education and is currently the Film Department Coordinator at SAE Creative Media Institute in Brisbane.
Says Mairi: “I love bold creative work that is performance-based and pushes boundaries. I bring a strong female perspective and seek out the imperfect and the beautiful, always looking for the cinematic angle with a twist.”
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.
3 Comments
Mairi is sheer brilliance.
Such a talent.
Recently had the pleasure of working with Mairi for the first time and I couldn’t recommend her more highly.
Known Mairi since forever. Extremely talented and amazing to work with too 🙂