Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Awards & Screenings: World Premiere Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Broadcast ABC TV. Winner Audience Award for Documentary at Cineglobe Film Festival, Winner Best Australian Short Documentary at Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Special Mention Best International Documentary at Lebu International Film Festival, Winner Supreme Jury Prize Short Documentary and Best Short Director at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

Description: A 25-minute documentary about street performer Paul Cooper who has an unlikely ally in his ongoing battle with anxiety and depression – his robot, Tubby. More.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video, Soul Vision Films

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Awards & Screenings: Winner 2016 Devour Golden Tine Award for Best Short Documentary. In Official Selection Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, The Atlantic Selects, Sydney Film Festival and more.

Description: Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deeply personal family story about their mother, who taught them everything they know.

Role: Writer, Director, Producer

Awards & Screenings: Australian Directors’ Guild Winner Best Direction in a Documentary Short Subject, St Kilda Film Festival Winner Best Documentary, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Finalist Best Australian Director, Nominated Best Short Form Documentary AIDC Awards, Nominated Best Queensland Film Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival, Official Selection Flickerfest International Short Film Festival and more.

Description: Aldo has always felt like a being from another planet, stranded on Earth. His autism and long struggle to speak fluently alienated him from others. Now, he searches for meaning in the esoteric and for connection with people like himself. More info.

Production Company:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Role: Camera (Seasons 2, 3 & 4)

Screenings: ABC iview and social media

Description: Men share deeply personal stories of how they overcame challenging health issues.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Screenings: ABC News 24

Description: Kneehigh Puppeteers collaborated with local children, artists and performers to bring kids' monster drawings to life by transforming them into giant puppets for the Woodford Folk Festival. This piece was re-edited into a 3-minute version for broadcast on ABC News 24.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Screenings: ABC News 24, ABC iView

Description: A 15-minute documentary about the Lockyer Valley Land Art Project – building relationships between artists and farmers to assist in disaster recovery. This piece was re-edited into a 4 x 3-minute series for broadcast on ABC News 24 and ABC iview.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Client: Applaud Productions

Description: A 30-second advertisement for Brazil Central – three days of workshops, performances and parties for lovers of Brazilian dance.

Production Company:
Story First Creative

Role: Camera

Client: Griffith University, Redland City Council

Description: A series of koala conservation videos hosted by Totally Wild TV host Ranger Stacey.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director, Camera, Edit

Awards: Queensland winner of Hands Across Australia schools competition 2010

Description: Music video created with the students and community of the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School in Acacia Ridge, this was the school’s entry in Generation One’s Hands Across Australia schools competition.

Production Company: Human Ventures

Role: Editor

Client: NV Access

Description: Case study videos showing how blind people around the world are using NVDA – a free and open source screen reader – to use computers and transform their lives. NVDA provides blind people with access to education, employment, social networking and more. The videos are used for fundraising and promotion.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Screenings & Awards: Winner Most Outstanding Documentary, Master Showcase, Griffith Film School. In Official Selection Focus on Ability Short Film Festival, Heart of Gold International Film Festival.

Description: A 5-minute documentary about creative arts researcher Donna McDonald, who shares personal stories through the creation of a series of artworks about her life.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Client: Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service

Description: A series of six video stories about park rangers, which were released as part of an International Women’s Day campaign, aimed at encouraging women to consider a career as a ranger.

Production Company:
Prospero Productions

Role: Shooter Director (Season 1)

Screenings: Discovery, Channel 7

Description: Documentary series following Anthony and Danyelle Haigh as they start their new life converting a failed desert farm into a hay-growing business and tourist park, diving deeper into debt.

Production Company: Juiced TV

Role: Camera, Edit

Description: Juiced TV is the TV show made by the kids in hospital, for the kids in hospital. It’s an Australian-first program that provides the opportunity for patients and their siblings to star in their own show and share their hospital journey in an empowering and positive way, creating and connecting a community of hospital heroes. My role involves filming and editing content for Juiced TV clients and working with children and families at the Queensland Children’s Hospital.

Production Company:
Jaina Kalifa Film + Video

Role: Director/Producer, Camera, Edit

Client: State Library of Queensland

Description: Producing commissions for State Library of Queensland (SLQ) including exhibition content, digital stories and oral histories for the SLQ collections, focusing on contemporary and historical people, places and events.