‘My world was running around on a farm’ – How the Screenworks Career Pathways Program changed regional filmmaker’s lives

On Right: Clare Sladden On Left: Alexandra Doering

Prior to the Screenworks Career Pathway program, Alexandra Doering would scamper and scuttle around the paddocks of the Northern Rivers, before crashing out on her couch to watch television. 

That inspired her to enter the film industry , first in the post-production space, producing The Dry (2020), Penguin Bloom (2020) and Peter Rabbit: The Runaway (2021). 

But, she found herself in a “post-pigeonhole”, aching to become more than a post-producer so, she pitched a project at MCX...