Meet Melanie Rodriga

Senior Lecturer, Screen and Sound

“Making films in industry is tough, for myself and our graduates. So it’s a fine art to create a supportive yet challenging environment for our students and readies them for industry.

Here we get to make some great short films but I’ve been working to make feature film-making happen during their studies. Two of our Masters students have made features and last year a group of third year students had learnt enough Screen and Sound production skills to crew my latest feature film myPastmyPresent at a professional standard.

This has been a creative high for which I’m truly grateful. I don’t know of any other universities in Australia where this could have happened and it’s given myself and the students involved a deeper understanding of what we’ve been learning and how we put that into practice.”

+ see behind the scenes footage from myPastmyPresent