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Outback Film Club

Photo by Nathan Ward
Mulgowie, QLD Growing up on a beef cattle property north of the tiny town of Jackson (with a population of less than 70)
www.kickinupdustco.com in the Maranoa region of Queensland was an amazing experience for me. However, I always knew life had FEATURE
more in store for me then fencing, mustering and feeding cattle in the drought.

I have always been a storyteller and when my parents I was very lucky because I had a family who
gifted me my first digital camera at the age of nine, supported my crazy ambitions and pushed me
I never looked back. Fast forward 16 years and I am to put myself out there, but that is not always
now a professional videographer and have plied my the case and I find that really sad. Whilst I was
trade all around the world. at university studying a Bachelor of Film and
Television my Mum (aka my biggest fan who has
For the past four years I have followed the Australian now sadly passed away) told me story about a
Cricket team as a video journalist capturing their lady she got chatting to in Chinchilla.
tours to India, England, South Africa, the UAE, the
West Indies, Bangladesh and of course throughout She was talking about me as she always used to
Australia. Throughout my time in what I describe as do and told the lady about my dreams of being
my dream job, one thing has always remained and a filmmaking and she replied saying that her
that is my love of the land and that is why I have daughter was also interested in making movies,
started the “Outback Film Club”. however quickly followed up by saying, ‘but there’s
no future in that’. This bugged the hell out of my
“ Outback Film Club (or OFC for mother and me for that matter, because if that’s
what her mum was saying, what hope did the poor
short) is my way of giving back girl have? Especially in an industry that is already
to the next generation of outback daunting enough… My mum and I were always on
the same page when we said, ‘there is no harm in
creatives, who may, without the at least having a bloody crack!’
right education and inspiration, Clancy Sinnamon
never pick up a camera. “ Socials - @outbackfilmclub

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