“I wanted to see women rise up the ranks”: Natalie Miller on her fellowship and career

Natalie Miller has so often been the only woman on industry boards, she has a t-shirt that says “Gentlemen and Natalie”.

Miller is one of the industry’s true pioneers. Sharmill Films, which Miller established in 1967, was the first distribution company to ever be started and run by a woman in Australia. In 1984, she started the The Longford Cinema on Toorak Road in South Yarra, and in 1992, opened Cinema Nova in Carlton’s Lygon Street with business partner Barry Peak. The latter cinema started with two scr...