Trisha Morton-Thomas

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Trisha Morton-Thomas

Trisha Morton-Thomas, also known as Patricia Morton-Thomas, is an Anmatyerr woman born in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is a writer, producer, director and actor who has worked in the Australian film industry since 1998 when she appeared in Radiance, the first feature film by director Rachel Perkins.

Morton-Thomas and Rachel Clements co-founded filmmaking company Brindle Films in Alice Springs in 2011.

Career

Morton-Thomas grew up in Alice Springs and the remote Northern Territory. She 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.[1]

In 1991 Morton-Thomas moved to Sydney with her good friend Rachel Perkins, who, she says, "dragged me along with her".[2]

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. 1993 saw Trisha studying with Noel Tovey in the Uta Hagen acting technique at the Eora College for Performing Arts.[1]

After finishing at Eora College, Morton-Thomas appeared in Radiance in 1998, directed by Perkins. She played the main character, Mae.[3]

In 2004, she returned to Alice Springs and began working with CAAMA as a Production Manager, Producer, and Director for their film production slate.[1]

In 2007 Morton-Thomas joined the newly established National Indigenous Television (NITV) as a commissioning editor, later being promoted to senior commissioning editor.[3]

She was a presenter on the ABC Television show Message Stick.[4]

In 2011 Morton-Thomas formed Brindle Films with Rachel Clements. Based in Alice Springs, Brindle films has produced feature films, documentaries and television shows.[5]

In 2020 it was confirmed that ABC and Brindle Films would partner to produce MaveriX, a drama TV series aimed at children and young teenagers set in the world of junior motocross, which would be the largest ever local productions for the NT. It was shot in Alice Springs in 2021[6] and premiered on ABC Me on 1 April 2022.[7]

Morton-Thomas and Rachel Clements co-produced the feature documentary Audrey Napanangka, made by filmmaker Penelope McDonald, her son Dylan River, and others. The film took around 10 years to make and was released in 2023.[8][9]

Filmography

  • Radiance (1998 film) – actor
  • The Old Man and the Inland Sea (2005) - post-production coordinator
  • Always Have and Always Will (2006) - production coordinator
  • Destiny in Alice (2007) - self
  • Willaberta Jack (2007) - development producer
  • Kwatye (2007) - writer, director
  • Redfern Now (2012-2013 TV series) - actor
  • Utopia (2013 film) - self
  • 8MMM Aboriginal Radio (2015 TV series) - actor, producer, writer
  • Coat of Arms (2017) - producer
  • Occupation Native (2017) - producer, writer, director, self
  • The Song Keepers (2017) - producer
  • Nobody's Child (2017) - actor
  • Finke: There and Back (2019) - producer
  • Total Control (2019 TV series)- actor
  • Not Just Numbers (2019) - producer
  • Robbie Hood (2019 TV series) - Indigenous consultant[10]
  • MaveriX (2022 TV series) - co-producer
  • Audrey Napanangka (2023 documentary film) - co-producer

Awards

References

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