Director: Kathy Drayton
Script: Kathy Drayton
Photography: Anna Howard
Editor: Anna Craney
Music: J. Walker, Machine Translation
Casting: Karen Colston
Sound: Paul Finley, Annie Breslin
With: Paul Cox, Ross Hannaford
Voice: Justine Clarke
Producer: Helen Bowden
Executive Producer: Amanda Duthie
Production: Toi-Toi Films in association with ABC
Distribution: Toi-Toi Films
Tel: 0061 2 935 848 47
helib@bigpond.com
First Broadcast: 2 April 2006, 9.30pm, ABC TV
Silver Nymph Award for Best Screenplay, Monte Carlo International Television Festival 1998
Selected Filmography Kathy Drayton: Beach Story, 2001; Eat, 1989.
Her body produced too much blood. In 1980, Australian photographer Carol Jerrems died in her early thirties from a rare disease. "Girl in a Mirror" gives an account of the life of this exceptional, daring artist by presenting interviews, diary entries, reenactments and many photographs. Many of these depict the Australian counterculture of the 1970s, but Jerrems also risked her life for photojournalism pieces on youth gangs in troubled urban districts. In her documentary, director Kathy Drayton breaks with the conventions of the biopic genre in favor of a poetic approach towards Jerrems’ life and work, befitting the nonconformist photographer.