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'''Beck Cole''' is an Australian filmmaker of the [[Warramungu]] and [[Luritja]] nations. She is known for her work on numerous TV series and films, including ''[[First Australians]]'', ''[[Grace Beside Me]]'', ''[[Black Comedy (TV series)|Black Comedy]]'' and ''[[Wentworth (TV series)|Wentworth]]''.
'''Beck Cole''' is an Australian filmmaker of the [[Warramungu]] and [[Luritja]] nations. She is known for her work on numerous TV series, including ''[[First Australians]]'', ''[[Grace Beside Me]]'', ''[[Black Comedy (TV series)|Black Comedy]]'' and ''[[Wentworth (TV series)|Wentworth]]'', as well as documentaries and short films. She is based in [[Alice Springs]], in the [[Northern Territory]].


==Early life, education and early career==
==Early life, education and early career==
Beck grew up in [[Adelaide]] and [[Alice Springs]].<ref name=rt2006>{{cite interview |interviewer-first=Lisa |interviewer-last=Stefanoff| first=Beck| last=Cole| title=A filmmaking life | website=[[RealTime Arts]] | url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue74/8163 | access-date=22 November 2021|quote=[Reproduced from] ''RealTime'' issue #74 Aug-Sept 2006 pg. 19.}}</ref>
Cole grew up in [[Adelaide]] and around the [[Port Adelaide]] area.<ref name=rt2006>{{cite interview |interviewer-first=Lisa |interviewer-last=Stefanoff| first=Beck| last=Cole| title=A filmmaking life | website=[[RealTime Arts]] | url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue74/8163 | access-date=22 November 2021|quote=[Reproduced from] ''RealTime'' issue #74 Aug-Sept 2006 pg. 19.}}</ref>


Cole started working in media as a journalist when she got a [[cadetship]] at [[Imparja Television]], when still at school. She gained experience in both writing and presenting stories, and also worked as a news and weather presenter.<ref name=rt2006/>
Beck started her career working as a journalist at [[Imparja Television]], whilst she was still in high school. Beck would go to school during the day and spend her evenings working in the newsroom.<ref name=rt2006/> After two years at Imparja, Beck went on to study at [[Charles Sturt University]], doing a BA in Communication and Sociology. From here she moved to the [[Australian Film and Radio School]] to complete her Masters in Documentary Directing. Soon afterwards Beck started work in the Indigenous Unit at [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]].

She graduated from [[Charles Sturt University]] with a BA in Communication and Sociology, and soon afterwards started work in the Indigenous Unit at [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]], where she started her [[filmmaking]] career. After a few years she did a year's [[film directing]] course at the [[Australian Film Television and Radio School]] (AFTRS), where she was exposed to a number of Australian documentary filmmakers.<ref name=rt2006/> Cole was mentored by photographer and filmmaker [[Michael Riley (artist)|Michael Riley]], who co-founded [[Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative]], until his death in 2004.<ref name=if2019/>


==Career==
==Career==
As a film-maker from Alice Springs, Beck has worked frequently with [[Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association]] (CAAMA), and is recognised as one of the trailblazers for Aboriginal film-making in Central Australia. <ref name=rt2006/>
While at AFTRS, Cole worked on and off for the [[Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association]] (CAAMA), with whom she has had an association ever since.<ref name=rt2006/>


Beck is unapologetically a feminist film-maker. Becks body of work clearly reflects this, as evident from her first short films ''Flat'' (2002/3), and ''Plains Empty'', and her feature film [[Here I am]] (2005<ref name=nfsainterview>{{cite interview| first= Beck|last= Cole| interviewer-first=Miguel |interviewer-last=Gonzalez | title= Here is Cole|date=2 June 2011| website=[[Australian Screen]]|publisher=[[National Film and Sound Archive of Australia]] | url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/wirriya-small-boy-ricco | access-date=23 November 2021}}
Her early short documentary and drama films, starting with ''Flat'' (2002/3), were mainly focused on [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] culture and family.<ref name=rt2006/> ''Flat'' and ''Plains Empty'' (2005<ref name=nfsainterview>{{cite interview| first= Beck|last= Cole| interviewer-first=Miguel |interviewer-last=Gonzalez | title= Here is Cole|date=2 June 2011| website=[[Australian Screen]]|publisher=[[National Film and Sound Archive of Australia]] | url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/wirriya-small-boy-ricco | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref>) premiering at [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]] ''Flat'' also screening at the [[Edinburgh Film Festival]].<ref name=nida/>


Cole established a working as well as a personal relationship with cinematographer [[Warwick Thornton]],<ref name=rt2006/> and along with producer [[Kath Shelper]] they called themselves "the trinity" since working together from 2004.<ref name=delaney/> ''Wirriya: Small Boy'' (2004) is a short film about an eight-year-old boy who lives in Hidden Valley, an Indigenous [[Alice Springs town camps| town camp near Alice Springs]] in the [[Northern Territory]], with his foster mother.<ref>{{cite web | title= Wirriya: Small Boy - Ricco| website=[[Australian Screen]]|publisher=[[National Film and Sound Archive of Australia]] | url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/wirriya-small-boy-ricco | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref>
Beck worked as a writer-director on ''[[First Australians]]'' (2008), the acclaimed documentary television series about the history of [[Indigenous Australians]], along with [[Rachel Perkins]] and [[Louis Nowra]].<ref name=rt2006/>


In 2009 she wrote and directed ''Making 'Samson and Delilah''', a 55 minute documentary on the making of the feature film ''[[Samson and Delilah (2009 film)|Samson and Delilah]]'', directed by Thornton.<ref name=nida/>
Cole worked as a writer-director on ''[[First Australians]]'' (2008), the acclaimed documentary television series about the history of [[Indigenous Australians]], along with [[Rachel Perkins]] and [[Louis Nowra]].<ref name=rt2006/>


In 2009 she wrote and directed ''Making 'Samson and Delilah''', a 55 minute documentary on the making of the feature film ''[[Samson and Delilah (2009 film)|Samson and Delilah]]'', directed by Thornton.<ref name=nida/>
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Beck directed several episodes over three series of the ''[[Black Comedy (TV series)|Black Comedy]]'', which won a 2015 AACTA award for Best Direction in a Light Entertainment or Reality Series.<ref name=nida/>
Her debut [[feature film]] was the drama ''[[Here I Am (2011 film)|Here I Am]]'' (2011).<ref name=if2019/>

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She directed several episodes over three series of the ''[[Black Comedy (TV series)|Black Comedy]]'', which won a 2015 AACTA award for Best Direction in a Light Entertainment or Reality Series.<ref name=nida/>


After working on a number of series on Indigenous themes, she collaborated with [[Leah Purcell]] on several episodes of the popular prison drama series, ''[[Wentworth (TV series)|Wentworth]]'', between 2019 and 2021,<ref name=imdb>{{imdb name|1503405}}</ref> and with [[Bevan Lee]] on the [[Seven Network]] series ''[[Between Two Worlds (TV series)|Between Two Worlds]]'', which premiered in 2020.<ref name=if2019>{{cite web| url=https://www.if.com.au/writer-director-beck-cole-blithely-moves-between-two-worlds/| title=Writer-director Beck Cole moves between two worlds| first= Don |last=Groves| date =21 May 2019| website=[[IF Magazine]]| access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=nida>{{cite web|url=https://www.nida.edu.au/productions/in-conversation/videos/beck-cole-and-liz-hughes-thursday,-22-october-2020|website= [[National Institute of Dramatic Art]]| title=Beck Cole and Liz Hughes – Thursday 22 October 2020|access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref>
After working on a number of series on Indigenous themes, she collaborated with [[Leah Purcell]] on several episodes of the popular prison drama series, ''[[Wentworth (TV series)|Wentworth]]'', between 2019 and 2021,<ref name=imdb>{{imdb name|1503405}}</ref> and with [[Bevan Lee]] on the [[Seven Network]] series ''[[Between Two Worlds (TV series)|Between Two Worlds]]'', which premiered in 2020.<ref name=if2019>{{cite web| url=https://www.if.com.au/writer-director-beck-cole-blithely-moves-between-two-worlds/| title=Writer-director Beck Cole moves between two worlds| first= Don |last=Groves| date =21 May 2019| website=[[IF Magazine]]| access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=nida>{{cite web|url=https://www.nida.edu.au/productions/in-conversation/videos/beck-cole-and-liz-hughes-thursday,-22-october-2020|website= [[National Institute of Dramatic Art]]| title=Beck Cole and Liz Hughes – Thursday 22 October 2020|access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref>
Beck was voice director for all three seasons of ''[[Little J & Big Cuz]]'', and wrote two episodes of the series.<ref name=if2019/><ref name=nida/>
Cole was voice director for all three seasons of ''[[Little J & Big Cuz]]'', and wrote two episodes of the series.<ref name=if2019/><ref name=nida/>


Cole has been working on a [[horror film]] set in Alice Springs, which is based on a true story told by Aboriginal children who lived in a residential care home, where they were attacked by an evil entity.<ref name=if2019/>
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Beck directed one of the segments of the anthology film ''[[We Are Still Here (2022 film)|We Are Still Here]]'', which premiered as the opening film of the 2022 [[Sydney Film Festival]].<ref>Sandy George, [https://www.screendaily.com/news/indigenous-anthology-feature-we-are-still-here-to-open-sydney-film-festival-2022/5170090.article "Indigenous anthology feature ‘We Are Still Here’ to open Sydney Film Festival 2022"]. ''[[Screen Daily]]'', 4 May 2022.</ref>

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Cole directed one of the segments of the anthology film ''[[We Are Still Here (2022 film)|We Are Still Here]]'', which premiered as the opening film of the 2022 [[Sydney Film Festival]].<ref>Sandy George, [https://www.screendaily.com/news/indigenous-anthology-feature-we-are-still-here-to-open-sydney-film-festival-2022/5170090.article "Indigenous anthology feature ‘We Are Still Here’ to open Sydney Film Festival 2022"]. ''[[Screen Daily]]'', 4 May 2022.</ref>


==Recognition and accolades==
==Recognition and accolades==
Beck was one of seven filmmakers featured in the 5th [[Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art]] at the [[Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane|Gallery of Modern Art]] (GoMA) in [[Brisbane]]<ref name=nida/>
Cole was one of seven filmmakers featured in the 5th [[Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art]] at the [[Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane|Gallery of Modern Art]] (GoMA) in [[Brisbane]]<ref name=nida/>


===Film awards===
===Film awards===
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* ''[[Here I Am (2011 film)|Here I Am]]'' (2011): winner of Best Dramatic Feature at the [[imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival|ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival]];<ref name=awards>{{cite web|website= IMDb| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764358/awards/?ref_=tt_awd| title=Here I Am: Awards| access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=nida/> nominated for the International Feature award at the [[2011 Adelaide Film Festival]];<ref>{{cite web | title=Adelaide Film Festival: Awards | website=[[Screen Australia]] | date=23 April 2019 | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/festivals-and-markets/festival-profiles/adelaide-film-festival/11029 | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> in competition for the Golden Zenith Award at the [[Montréal World Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Montréal World Film Festival 2011 | website=MUBI | url=https://mubi.com/awards-and-festivals/montreal?page=2&year=2011 | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> and
* ''[[Here I Am (2011 film)|Here I Am]]'' (2011): winner of Best Dramatic Feature at the [[imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival|ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival]];<ref name=awards>{{cite web|website= IMDb| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764358/awards/?ref_=tt_awd| title=Here I Am: Awards| access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=nida/> nominated for the International Feature award at the [[2011 Adelaide Film Festival]];<ref>{{cite web | title=Adelaide Film Festival: Awards | website=[[Screen Australia]] | date=23 April 2019 | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/festivals-and-markets/festival-profiles/adelaide-film-festival/11029 | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> in competition for the Golden Zenith Award at the [[Montréal World Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Montréal World Film Festival 2011 | website=MUBI | url=https://mubi.com/awards-and-festivals/montreal?page=2&year=2011 | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> and
*''[[Black Comedy (TV series)|Black Comedy]]'': winner, 2015 [[AACTA Award]] for Best Direction in a Light Entertainment or Reality Series<ref name=nida/>
*''[[Black Comedy (TV series)|Black Comedy]]'': winner, 2015 [[AACTA Award]] for Best Direction in a Light Entertainment or Reality Series<ref name=nida/>

==Personal life==
Cole was formerly married to director Warwick Thornton,<ref name=nfsainterview/> whom she met in 1999.<ref name=smh2009/> They have a daughter, Luka May,<ref>{{cite web | title=The Crew: Beck Cole, writer/director | website=Here I Am | date=10 November 2010 | url=http://www.hereiamfilm.com/?page_id=129 | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=smh2009>{{cite web | title=Finding salvation in film | website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] | date=25 April 2009 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/finding-salvation-in-film-20090426-aiwt.html | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> an actress also known as [[Luka Magdeline Cole]] or Luka May Glynn-Cole.<ref>{{imdb name|10035682|Luka Magdeline Cole}}</ref> The couple shared a personal as well as professional relationship.<ref name=delaney>{{cite web | last=Delaney | first=Colin | title=Here I Am’s Beck Cole, Kath Shelper and Warwick Thorton are here to stay | website=[[Mumbrella]] | date=15 June 2011 | url=https://mumbrella.com.au/here-i-am-71477 | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> By 2018 Thornton and Cole had separated.<ref name=smh2018>{{cite web | last=Maddox | first=Garry | title=Director Warwick Thornton's film Sweet Country is a bold new take on the Western | website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] | date=4 January 2018 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/director-warwick-thorntons-movie-sweet-country-is-a-bold-new-take-on-the-western-20171219-h07h5b.html | access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref>

She is a cousin of filmmaker [[Danielle MacLean]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Danielle MacLean proudly carries the flag for Indigenous storytelling | website=[[IF Magazine]] | date=13 June 2019 | url=https://if.com.au/danielle-maclean-proudly-carries-the-flag-for-indigenous-storytelling/ | access-date=29 April 2022}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 19:16, 29 September 2023

Beck Cole
Born
Australia
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, film director
Years active2000–present
PartnerSamuel Cole (2016–c.2017)
ChildrenLuka May Glynn-Cole (Luka May)

Beck Cole is an Australian filmmaker of the Warramungu and Luritja nations. She is known for her work on numerous TV series, including First Australians, Grace Beside Me, Black Comedy and Wentworth, as well as documentaries and short films. She is based in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory.

Early life, education and early career

Cole grew up in Adelaide and around the Port Adelaide area.[1]

Cole started working in media as a journalist when she got a cadetship at Imparja Television, when still at school. She gained experience in both writing and presenting stories, and also worked as a news and weather presenter.[1]

She graduated from Charles Sturt University with a BA in Communication and Sociology, and soon afterwards started work in the Indigenous Unit at ABC Television, where she started her filmmaking career. After a few years she did a year's film directing course at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), where she was exposed to a number of Australian documentary filmmakers.[1] Cole was mentored by photographer and filmmaker Michael Riley, who co-founded Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, until his death in 2004.[2]

Career

While at AFTRS, Cole worked on and off for the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), with whom she has had an association ever since.[1]

Her early short documentary and drama films, starting with Flat (2002/3), were mainly focused on Aboriginal culture and family.[1] Flat and Plains Empty (2005[3]) premiering at Sundance Flat also screening at the Edinburgh Film Festival.[4]

Cole established a working as well as a personal relationship with cinematographer Warwick Thornton,[1] and along with producer Kath Shelper they called themselves "the trinity" since working together from 2004.[5] Wirriya: Small Boy (2004) is a short film about an eight-year-old boy who lives in Hidden Valley, an Indigenous town camp near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, with his foster mother.[6]

Cole worked as a writer-director on First Australians (2008), the acclaimed documentary television series about the history of Indigenous Australians, along with Rachel Perkins and Louis Nowra.[1]

In 2009 she wrote and directed Making 'Samson and Delilah', a 55 minute documentary on the making of the feature film Samson and Delilah, directed by Thornton.[4]

Her debut feature film was the drama Here I Am (2011).[2]

She directed several episodes over three series of the Black Comedy, which won a 2015 AACTA award for Best Direction in a Light Entertainment or Reality Series.[4]

After working on a number of series on Indigenous themes, she collaborated with Leah Purcell on several episodes of the popular prison drama series, Wentworth, between 2019 and 2021,[7] and with Bevan Lee on the Seven Network series Between Two Worlds, which premiered in 2020.[2][4]

Cole was voice director for all three seasons of Little J & Big Cuz, and wrote two episodes of the series.[2][4]

Cole has been working on a horror film set in Alice Springs, which is based on a true story told by Aboriginal children who lived in a residential care home, where they were attacked by an evil entity.[2]

Cole directed one of the segments of the anthology film We Are Still Here, which premiered as the opening film of the 2022 Sydney Film Festival.[8]

Recognition and accolades

Cole was one of seven filmmakers featured in the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Brisbane[4]

Film awards

Personal life

Cole was formerly married to director Warwick Thornton,[3] whom she met in 1999.[12] They have a daughter, Luka May,[13][12] an actress also known as Luka Magdeline Cole or Luka May Glynn-Cole.[14] The couple shared a personal as well as professional relationship.[5] By 2018 Thornton and Cole had separated.[15]

She is a cousin of filmmaker Danielle MacLean.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Cole, Beck. "A filmmaking life". RealTime Arts (Interview). Interviewed by Stefanoff, Lisa. Retrieved 22 November 2021. [Reproduced from] RealTime issue #74 Aug-Sept 2006 pg. 19.
  2. ^ a b c d e Groves, Don (21 May 2019). "Writer-director Beck Cole moves between two worlds". IF Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b Cole, Beck (2 June 2011). "Here is Cole". Australian Screen (Interview). Interviewed by Gonzalez, Miguel. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Beck Cole and Liz Hughes – Thursday 22 October 2020". National Institute of Dramatic Art. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b Delaney, Colin (15 June 2011). "Here I Am's Beck Cole, Kath Shelper and Warwick Thorton are here to stay". Mumbrella. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Wirriya: Small Boy - Ricco". Australian Screen. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  7. ^ Beck Cole at IMDb
  8. ^ Sandy George, "Indigenous anthology feature ‘We Are Still Here’ to open Sydney Film Festival 2022". Screen Daily, 4 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Here I Am: Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Adelaide Film Festival: Awards". Screen Australia. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Montréal World Film Festival 2011". MUBI. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Finding salvation in film". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 April 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  13. ^ "The Crew: Beck Cole, writer/director". Here I Am. 10 November 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  14. ^ Luka Magdeline Cole at IMDb
  15. ^ Maddox, Garry (4 January 2018). "Director Warwick Thornton's film Sweet Country is a bold new take on the Western". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Danielle MacLean proudly carries the flag for Indigenous storytelling". IF Magazine. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
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