BLACKBIRD

Amie Batalibasi is an Australian Solomon Islander (Feralimae/ Kosi) writer, director, and producer. Her filmmaking practice is driven by a passion to collaborate with diverse people and communities at a grassroots level, to unearth stories that have the possibility to spark empowerment and create change. Amie was the 2017 recipient of the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship and is a Berlinale Talents & TIFF Filmmaker LAb 2018 alumna. Her award-winning short films have been screened around Australia and internationally. Over the last ten years, as a mentor and media trainer, Batalibasi has produced dozens of short films by first-time filmmakers through collaborative community projects with children and young people, new migrant groups, remote Indigenous communities, and culturally and linguistically diverse communities in and around Melbourne, interstate Australia and in the Solomon Islands. Amie graduated with honors from Melbourne University Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) with a Graduate Diploma of Film and TV (Documentary) in 2007 and a Master of Film and TV (Narrative) in 2015.