There once was a girl from down under...
I was born in Australia in 1972. I grew in communal households and hippie schools with my wonderful brave single mum. I knew I wanted to make movies from a very young age and got into film school aged 17. My student films, Sexy Girls, Sexy Appliances and Desire did well on the festival circuit. A few years out of film school some friends and I made a low budget film called Love and Other Catastrophes. We got postproduction funding and then the film sold all around the world including to Fox Searchlight. During this huge unexpected crazy success that had me traveling around the world promoting the movie, my mother was battling cancer and eventually died.
A few months later at a film festival in Hokkaido, Japan on Valentine’s Day I fell in love with James Green. We spent a few tortured years in a long-distance relationship while I made my second film Strange Planet. In 1999, I moved to LA ostensibly to work on an adaptation of Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly with Charlie Kaufman writing and Jersey films producing. In 2000, the film fell apart; James sold his internet start up company; we got married; we moved to New York and had our first child, Paloma. For the next ten years, I continued to write and develop film and television projects. I became a better writer and collected some great development hell stories; I once had a development executive ask me to explain what solipsistic meant. We bought an apartment in the West Village. I gave birth to a second human being, Ronan. I became a committed Yogi and a certified teacher. I tried and failed to learn Spanish and threw a lot of parties. In 2011, we sold our apartment and bought a boat. We sailed around the world for a year. When we ran out of money and time, we move back to New York. In 2014 on a whim and because we are lovers of change, we bought this big old house in Frenchtown, New Jersey and the story continues…..