She’s a multi-lingual documentary maker who has lived all over the world – and now Gabrielle Brady can add a prestigious Kelso High award to her credits.
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Ms Brady, who graduated from the school in 2002, was recently announced as the recipient of the Kelso High School Decade Award, which recognises a student who completed their secondary education at the school 10 or more years ago, and has gone on to excel in their chosen field.
The award was inaugurated 20 years ago by the Kelso High School Council.
The award was inaugurated 20 years ago.
Ms Brady enrolled to do a double degree in theatre media and communications at Charles Sturt University Bathurst after leaving school and later worked as a producer and segment writer for the Sunrise program.
She moved to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia in 2007, where she produced, directed, researched and presented for Mongolian National Television – what she describes as a “life-changing experience”.
Ms Brady returned to Australia in 2009, producing and directing at the Sunday Night program at Channel 7, before moving to the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu in Central Australia to work for the Walpiri Media Centre.
She was accepted into the Escuela Internacional de Cine TV film school in Cuba in 2011 for its three-year documentary direction course, where she had the chance to learn from such people as director Francis Ford Coppola, and moved to Indonesia in 2014 for a year to produce a documentary for the United Nations about young women being forced into marriage.
The film has since been used in legal proceedings to try to increase the age of marriage in Indonesia from 16 to 18.
Around this time, Ms Brady started an online documentary magazine called Human Geographic, which is a platform for writers and film-makers to show their works.
Ms Brady moved to Germany in 2015 and was selected to participate in Berlinale Talents, an annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 300 outstanding talents from the fields of film and drama.
It included pitching sessions for directors developing their first feature film.
Ms Brady is the co-producer of the award-winning feature documentary Coniston, about the last known massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia, and is presently on Christmas Island finishing her feature film No Man Is An Island, about international migration.
