Teone Reinthal - visual artist & filmmaker…
CURRICULUM VITAE (EXCERPTED)
Education
2008 DVA student (Film) GFS/QCA
Master Arts/Hons - Media Production
Griffith Film School - Griffith University QCA
2007 Received Griffith Award for Academic Excellence
Master Arts – Media Production GFS/QCA
2006 Graduate Certificate – Visual Arts
Griffith University Queensland College of Arts
Dip Clinical Hypnosis – Brisbane 2004
Dip Natural & Remedial Therapies - Aromatherapy 2002 AIAS Brisbane
partial studies - Dip Professional Counselling (completed AIPC Modules 1 – 12)
Performing Arts Education
Music - 3rd generation professional musician.
Voice - Studies with Opera Singer Isolde Hill - 18 months (Sydney)
Electric bassist -
Taught by my father Ken Bennett (professional musician, composer,
producer, arranger, conductor). Private Music tuition and Jazz studies
with Sydney orchestral double bassists and jazz & contemporary
electric bassists - George Bruno, Bill Twyman, Darcy Wright, Wayne
Ford, and Ed Gaston. Many and various professional music engagements – rock, pop, music
theatre, jazz, contemporary music and drama production, songwriting collaboration, studio recording, touring.
Dance - Ballet and Modern Dance with Janice Breen Academy of Dance - 6 years (Sydney)
Acting - Ensemble Youth Theatre drama studies with Hayes Gordon - 12 months (Sydney)
CURRENT
Freelance Filmmaker
Writer/Director/Producer - Gossamer Roads, Bukal Bunya Yarraburra, Shadows and Refractions, The Edge, Rainbirds, Nectarsongs, Blue Colour, Rattle the Gourd, Womana, La Selva Sagrada (directed by Belinda Berrington), Live... from Deeply Nowhere
Professional Assoc/s -
Member Artsworker’s Alliance
Full Writer Member - Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) Author, Playwright, Musician, Director, Visual Artist, Performer
2008 - Awarded Professional Development grant from Arts Queensland to produce ‘Salaam – profiling Muslim women’s arts and culture’ - a pilot documentary project for Access Arts and IWAQ – Brisbane 2008.
Trainer - Multi-Media (Film and TV studies) ACPA Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts
2008 - Guest film-maker/presenter -
Thalidomide International Conference March Sydney
Intersections Symposium/July Brisbane - a conference exploring cultural diversity in creativity, hosted by Griffith University
2006 - Invited presenter -
'The Motherlode' conference - York University Canada Oct 2006
'Not Another Hijab Row' conference - University of Technology Sydney December 2006
2005 Awarded Regional Arts Development Grant by Arts
Queensland and PRSC to develop 'Belongings', a cross-cultural
multi-arts project about heritage roots to our identities.
2008 Film projects include - Aquarium, Contracts, 4 Tribes, Morality & Rejection, Positive Parenting in Yarrabah, Gossamer Roads, Bukal Bunya Yarraburra, The Edge, ACPA 2008 & Kick the Can
2007 - Mary Graham speaks...about the Aboriginal World View - a Cultural Awareness training documentary, Reconciliation at the Ration Shed - effects of referendum for Cherbourg community, Water Spirit Dreaming & Fire Mountain - sacred initiation site documentary with Bundjalung elder Uncle John Roberts for Wollumbin Dreaming Festival 2007, Bundjulahm - the Art of Patsy Nagas, Adrian Burragubba's 'Didj A Tale', Videographer for ‘Reflections, referendum, 40 years and to the future’ – directed by Leah Purcell & performed at QPAC 2007/2008 + Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts, plus ACPA promo showcasing the school's lead-up to the graduation performance for 2007, Blue Colour - a
half-hour short feature drama written and directed by Teone presenting
a true story about reconciliation and exploring social attitudes and
perceptions of ‘difference’.
Blue Colour
nominated as a finalist in the 2008 QNFA categories of - QUT
Award for best tertiary drama 10-30mins, and finalist in
the major prize category of the Warner/Roadshow best overall film of
2008
2007 Special Projects Officer - Arts/North West Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community Ass.
for
more information about conference & paper submissions, group &
solo exhibitions, international collections, commissions, published works, and for details of previous & current exhibitions & projects, please contact me
BIO
Born in the early sixties with congenital deformities to both of my hands and feet, I have learned much about the personality of hands (especially) and feet. Much of my early childhood was spent in learning how to adapt a system to meet the one that digitally suited just about everyone else. At age ten, I was selected to attend Woollahra Demonstration School, an avant-garde opportunity school in East Sydney, which shaped many foundations in my thinking about applied creative experimentation.
I studied ballet and contemporary dance, drama, singing and music, and my early career centred around musical performance (theatre pit orchestra, live performance, touring, recording and composing).
After a few wild advendures and some travelling, I spent five years working in ABC TV (Science and Features), eventually leaving Sydney and moving north to study alternative medicine in Queensland.
Graduating as a practitioner of metaphysical counselling and holistic therapies, I progressed in my studies to become an Ericksonian Hypnotherapist under the tutelage of mentor David Kennedy. Discovering enormous benefits from hypnosis, both in my professional practice and personal creative applications, I wrote and presented an extensive number of classes and workshops in emotional healing and creative development training. These learning chapters culminated in an autobiographical book of essays entitled ‘Gaia’s Mouth’, which was launched in Feb. 2005.
Moving to the village in the national park of North West Brisbane, my interest in performing arts re-emerged, whereupon I wrote and directed theatrical plays, Rainbirds, and Nectarsongs, as well as performed in my one-woman satirical comedies La Selva Sagrada and Dark and Dishevelled. Many aspects of these experimental performances have since been adapted for films such as Rattle the Gourd, Alternative Reality Television, Nectarsongs (the film) and Womana.
In 2006, I attended Queensland College of Arts, completing a Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts and a Master of Arts with Honours in Media Production. Receiving a 2006/7 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, I am currently engaged in Doctoral studies in Visual Arts (Filmmaking). I frequently work in collaboration with my composer and artist husband, Steve Reinthal and we have two children.
RECENT FILM HIGHLIGHTS - produced the film component of the recent live show 'Reflections, referendum, 40 years and to the future' , directed by Leah Purcell and performed at QPAC in 2007 and 2008 by the students of the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA), and recently launched my own narrative film debut, a short feature entitled Blue Colour, which is also graced by some wonderful performances from several very talented students and graduates of ACPA. Blue Colour was nominated as a finalist in the recent QNFA categories of - the QUT Award for best tertiary drama 10-30mins, and was also a finalist in the major prize category of the Warner Roadshow best overall film of 2008.
GRANTS - twice received project funding from Arts Queensland: 2005 - to develop Belongings, a cultural heritage exploration, and, 2008 - funding for a cross-cultural project entitled Salaam - which documents the rich arts and culture of Islam as practiced and shared by a group of Muslim women artists living in Brisbane. (Salaam is an initiative of ACCESS Arts in partnership with IWAQ).
