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Phoebe Hart

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Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology

Dr Phoebe Hart is a writer, director and producer of documentaries, factual content and children’s television, an associate professor in film, screen and animation at the Queensland University of Technology, and principal of Hartflicker, a video and film production company. She is known particularly for her autobiographical road trip movie, Orchids: My Intersex Adventure. Her book Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens: Documania (2024) is published by an imprint of Rowman & Littleford.

Phoebe has worked with many production companies and television networks, including Network Ten, Wildbear Entertainment, Freshwater Pictures, Vizible Entertainment, Octagon CSI, Beyond, Turner Entertainment Inc., Brisbane International Film Festival and Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her work has been broadcast on Showtime, ARTE, Special Broadcasting Station, Nine Network, Schweizer Fernsehen, Televisión Española, UR (Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company), DBS Israel, OUTtv, Stan and ArtMedia.

In 2009 Hart was awarded her doctorate from Queensland University of Technology, of which Orchids was a central element of her doctoral studies. This documentary took six years for the principal documenters (sisters Phoebe and Bonnie Hart) to film, using a variety of cameras including semi-professional digital cameras, domestic VHS camcorders, and Super 8.

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology

Education

  • 2009 
    QUT, PhD

Publications

  • 2024
    Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens: Docu-mania, Lexington Books
  • 2023
    Medical Mysteries and Freaky Fables: A Critique of Intersex Representation on Television, Screenworks
  • 2023
    Disruptive docs: Teaching hybrid documentary filmmaking in Australia, Studies in Australasian Cinema
  • 2023
    Co-creative practice reconciling theory and practice in tertiary student documentary production, Media Practice & Education
  • 2021
    The Female Voice in Low budget, independent cinema of Australia: Strange Colours, The Second & Hot Mess, Studies in Australasian Cinema

Professional Memberships

  • Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
  • Member, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
  • Member, Australian Directors Guild
  • Member, Women in Film & Television (Australia)

Research Areas

  • Film, Television And Digital Media (1902)