Melanie Rodriga
Melanie Rodriga (née Read; born 30 September 1954) is a
Early life
Born in
Early career
Rodriga's career began in Sydney in 1974 at the
Later career
Rodriga's first feature-length film,
This is a story that won't appeal to viewers who live similar lives or take refuge in sudsers such as Neighbours, which looks like a sugar-frosted Cinderella fantasy compared with this. Strong humanity and even a faint sense of optimism emerge in the final reel as the women assert themselves against the innate bullying and objectification that has been their lot and downfall. It isn't Ken Loach or Mike Leigh but it's in that ambit and the acting is very gritty - Linda Cropper's Trude and Susie Porter's Teesh radiate desperation that is almost palpable and Peter Phelps, as the blustering no-hoper Rod, delivers a penetrating observation of a type that is frighteningly accurate
— Doug Anderson, The Age Newspaper[17]
In 2010, Rodriga wrote, directed and produced her fourth feature film
Academics
Rodriga has a PhD from Murdoch University in Perth, where she ran the Graduate Screen Program].[18][20]
Personal life
Rodriga identifies her sexual orientation as fluid, and identifies as lesbian and queer as of 2018. She has written that she disagrees with "the assumption that sexuality is biologically or genetically driven" and believes in "allowing young people the freedom to make up their own minds about their sexual preference(s)."[2]
Filmography
Year | Title | Type | Notes |
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1976 | Curiosities | short film | writer
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1977 | Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Sailor | documentary | as editor
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1977 | The Man who Broke the Bank | documentary | as editor |
1979 | Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters | documentary | as editor |
1980 | Wild South | documentary | as editor |
1981 | Them's the Breaks | documentary | director, writer, producer and editor |
1981 | Second Sight | documentary | director, writer, producer and editor |
1982 | Hooks and Feelers | short film | director, writer |
1984 | Trial Run | feature film | director, writer |
1985 | The Minders | short | director, editor |
1986/87 | Marching Girls | TV | director |
1988 | Send a Gorilla | feature film | director. Nominated for 3 New Zealand Film and TV Awards
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1991 | New Zealand Rivers Waikato | documentary | director, editor |
1993 | Standing in the Sunshine | documentary | director |
1994 | Once a Convent Girl | documentary | director |
1994 | TrueLife Stories: The Pip Brown Story | short drama | director, writer |
1994 | The People Next Door | documentary | director, writer |
2002 | Teesh and Trude | feature film | Nominated for 3 Australian Film Institute Awards ; director, producer and script consultant
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2010–2011 | myPastmyPresent[21] | feature film | director, writer, editor and producer |
References
- ^ "Research Portal".
- ^ ISBN 9781925591705.
- ^ "British Dance Bands 1912-1939" by Brian Rust and Edward Walker Storyville Press London 1973. pp. 13, 19, 136
- ^ Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters Archived 18 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters" by Scott McKinnon in "Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand." Rebecca Beirne, James E. Bennett Eds. pp225-230
- ^ "Red Mole". Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^ Biography from NZ On Screen
- ^ Trial Run
- ^ Finola Dwyer
- ^ a b c "New Zealand's Cinema of a Perilous Paradise" by Ian Conrin In Horror International Steven Jay Schneider, Tony Williams Eds. Wayne State UP p115
- ^ Trial Run in "Decade of New Zealand Film: Sleeping Dogs to Came a Hot Friday" by Nicholas Reid John McIndoe Ltd Dunedin 1986 p. 99
- ^ ISBN 9780814330173.
- ^ "The Marching Girls | Series | Television | NZ on Screen".
- ^ "Reframing Women: A History of New Zealand Film" by Deborah Shepard Harper Collins 2000.
- ^ Women's Companion to International Film, Annette Kuhn and Susannah Radstone Eds Uni of California Press, 1994. p 335-336
- ^ "Spur for local film industry". www.abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
- ^ Teesh & Trude Review, Doug Anderson, The Age Newspaper, 17 June 2007
- ^ a b "Courses available at Murdoch University in Perth Australia". murdoch.edu.au. 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "My Past My Present | Showtimes and Tickets | Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival". slgff.strangertickets.com. 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "4 results for Melanie Rodriga | Murdoch University". search.murdoch.edu.au. 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ myPastmyPresent