Alex Kelly

Alex Kelly is an artist and filmmaker committed to social justice. She worked for ten years with leading Australian social change arts company Big hART as Creative Producer of Ngapartji Ngapartji and was National Producer from 2012-2014. Alex's documentary credits include producing Island of the Hungry Ghosts, THE ISLAND, Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji and co-producing The Namatjira Project production managing Coniston: Telling it True and directing Queen of the Desert. Alex was the Global Impact & Distribution Producer on Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything project. She works on distribution and outreach strategies across a range of film and media projects. In 2013 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and explored at models for social change documentary impact and engagement in UK, Canada and USA. In 2009 Alex was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Kirk Robson Award, in 2011 the Screen Territory Bob Plasto Award and was selected as a Screen Producer's Australia 'Ones to Watch' winning the SPAA Kickstart pitch in 2015. Alex is Director and co-founder of Something Somewhere Film Festival in Alice Springs, Central Australia and a 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow.