- Georgina Willis is an UK based film director/ photographer, originally from Australia, who has built an international reputation through her experience as both a director and a photographer. Georgina's debut feature film Watermark, was selected for Directors' Fortnight, Cannes.
Georgina studied photography through the Architecture Department while completing a Master of Economics at Sydney University. Through this experience in photography, she moved into cinematography.
Georgina formed Potoroo Films with Kerry Rock in 1995 and their award winning work has been shown at over 70 international festivals including Europe & the US.
As well as being a film director she is a photographer whose photographs have appeared in many newspapers and publications such The Irish Times and The Independent.
- IMDb mini biography by: K.Smithson
- A female director looking through the lens captures the things that go unnoticed and unnamed by men.
- As the director you can shape the film but it also shapes you. Directing seems one way but its a two way thing and every film changes the director. It can direct you too.
- Making a film allows you to artificially create a memory that you can plant in the mind of the audience. You construct it and call it a 'film,' and it becomes the collective memory of those watching it.
- The best part of filmmaking is trying to capture a way of seeing the world that is new. Or perhaps something that has been overlooked. It's got to involve risk in order to be interesting.
- Every time a woman directs a film they have to first overcome the voice of doubt that has been invisibly planted in their very being. Society tells women to remain in the background.
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