Genevieve Bailey
(Genevieve Alice Bailey)
b. May 20, 1981, Ormond, Melbourne, Australia.

BIOGRAPHY:   Genevieve grew up shooting video in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s. Not many people have seen these films because they are pretty weird, she was only 8.

Regardless of how primitive and eccentric these early works are, they confirm Genevieve's love of capturing moving images from an early age.

Since then Genevieve has been consistently intrigued and excited about film production. She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor Of Creative Arts Honours from the VCA, Melbourne University. Her honours year film and thesis focussed on Japanese Masculinity and Culture in the Dance Film.

She has made over 40 films and counting. Genevieve is obsessed with story telling and does so through writing, directing, shooting and editing drama, comedy, documentary and music videos. Genevieve's films have screened internationally at festivals and have picked up over 30 awards to date.

	Kompis

CRITICAL OVERVIEW:   As well as being enticed by other peoples' true stories through doco making, Genevieve’s narrative films have been described as possessing doco flavoured qualities. It is important for Genevieve to present new and fresh faces on screen. She strives to work with people from different age groups, experiences, backgrounds, sexualities and cultures. She thrives on the challenges that filmmaking can bring and enjoys the pressure of making films in under 24 hours. Despite the warnings she loves working with non-actors, children, and animals.

Over the last 4 years Genevieve has enjoyed tutoring in film and video at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University schools of Creative Arts. Over the last 3 years Genevieve has been based overseas for part of each year, shooting a number of documentary, music video and drama projects. She is now addicted to the challenges of shooting in a new Country, without the advantages of a large crew, local knowledge and language skills!

Her first International multi-lingual feature project Eleven is currently in production. Eleven year olds the world over share, in different languages their thoughts on various personal and global issues. To date (May 2008) Genevieve has filmed 11 year olds in Japan, Thailand, Czech Republic, Sweden, UK, Germany, USA, Netherlands, Morocco, Netherlands and France.

FILMOGRAPHY:

	Movie We Made

Directed by Genevieve Bailey unless otherwise noted.

Price Check (1999, 9 mins, DV, Comedy)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

crunchfilmmaker (2000, 12 mins, DV, Experimental)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Little Things (2000, 3 mins, 16mm, Experimental Documentary)

Headache (2001, 10 mins, mixed media, Video Installation)

She Loves You (2001, 5 mins, DV, Comedy)

Break (2001, 17 mins, DV, Comedy)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

	A lete de la Saint Martin ‘68

The Dogs Will Sing (2002, 7 mins, DV, Comedy)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Dansu Kurabu (Dance Club) (2002, 17 mins, DV, Japanese Comedy with English Subtitles)

From Bombay to Broken Hill (2002, 10 mins, DV, Documentary)

Parklife: A Dogumentary (2003, 9 mins, DV, Documentary)

The Belljar by The Hampdens (2003, 3.5 mins, DV, Music Video)

Pumpkin and Lilly (2003, 7 mins, DV, Comedy)

The Hype by The Hampdens (2004, 3.5 mins, DV, Music Video)

	Bright Lights

Indi (2004, 10 mins, DV, Drama)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Bright Lights (2004, 7 mins, DV, Drama)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Mums Talk About Planes, Marriage, Asylum and Pop Music (2004, 2 mins, DV, Documentary)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Pier Boys (2004, 26 mins, DV, Documentary)

Symmetry (2004, 5 mins, Mini DV, Documentary)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Webster Say (2005, 15 mins, DigiBeta, Comedy)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

	Movie We Made

From Here (2005, 7 mins, DV, Drama)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

One More Sleep (2005, 7mins, DV, Drama)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

The Mattress (2005, 7 mins, 1 Episode of Feature Length project Little Deaths, HD, Drama/Comedy)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Inside Outside – The Rumours (2005, 4 mins, HD, Music video)
Directed by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie

Cesky Den (2005, 9 mins, DV, Drama)

Stop Signs – Oklahomo Trio (2005, 4 mins, DV, Music Video)

Never Alone – Winterpark (2005, 4 mins, DV, Music Video)

	One More Sleep

Lemon Ani (2006, 8 mins, DV, Drama)

Heart and Soul – J Hawk (2006, 4 mins, DigiBeta, Music Video)

Tip Toe (2006, 15 mins, DigiBeta, Drama)

Posh – Alice Sings the Petterson Songbook (2006, 3 mins, HD, Music Video)

Kompis (2006, 7 mins, DV, Documentary, Swedish language, English subtitles)

Too Loud To Try – Arms and The Boy (2006, 4 mins, DV, Music Video)

Last Time I Cried (2007, 10 mins, Digital SLR, Documentary)

Army of the Soldier Crabs – Simon Moore (2007, 4 mins, DV, Music Video)

Movie We Made – Nick Huggins (2007, 4 mins, Digital SLR, Music Video)

	4,5,6

Where Does Life Go? – Eva Popov (2007, 4 mins, DV, Music Video)

Motion Sickness – Oklahomo Trio (2007, 3 mins, DV, Music Video)

A lete de la Saint Martin ‘68 – Miou Miou (2007, 3 mins, HD, Music Video)

The New Song – Peggy Sue and the Pirates (2007, 3 mins, DV, Music Video)

Coming Out, to the Country (2008, 8 mins, DV, Documentary)

High Sobriety (2008, 9 mins, HD, Documentary)

Eleven (In Production, Feature, Documentary)

Zamazany Swit (In development, Polish/English, Documentary)

Prague Life: A Dogumentary (In Post Production, Czech Language/English Subtitles, Documentary)

4,5,6 (In Production, Japanese/Thai/English, Documentary)

AWARDS

	Headache

TRIPLE J RADIO Young Filmmakers of the Month, April 2004

One More Sleep

The Shootout Geelong 2005 - Best Film, Best Director, Best Art Direction

Webster Say

In the Realm of the Senses - 2nd Prize March 19 2005

Indi

	Indi

Winner 6 Awards 15/15 Film Festival
Best Film, Best Directors, Best Story/Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Actress – Kristina Lesjak.
Nominated for Best Drama, Best Sound//Score

International Tour includes festivals in San Sebastian, London, Jakarta, Edinburgh.

National Tour
Cancer Council Daffodil Arts Awards
High Commendation, 2^nd Prize

Finalist Open Channel, Love Your Work 2004

Finalist, Harvest Film Festival

Bright Lights

	Symmetry

Winner 4 Awards Geelong Shootout 2004
Best Film, Best Directors, Best Cinematography, Best Actor – Elijah Sejean

Queerscreen, Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival 2005
Development Award

Reel life Film Festival, Sydney 2004
Best Cinematography Award
Melbourne Audience Choice Award

Open Channel, Love Your Work 5^th Prize 2004

Screened in Competition, St.Kilda Film Festival 2004

Mums Talk About Planes, Marriage, Asylum and Pop Music

Finalist 2004 Youthweek ShootIt Competition

White Soap

Finalist 2004 Youthweek ShootIt Competition

Finalist UFilm Festival, Melbourne University 2001

	The Hype

Pier Boys

Finalist 2004 Youthweek ShootIt Competition.

Parklife: A Dogumentary

Best Editor, Best Documentary 15/15 Film Festival 2003

From Bombay to Broken Hill

2^nd Prize UFilm Festival, Melbourne University 2003

Funky Feedback (Music Video)

Finalist 2003 New Zealand Fringe Film Festival, Music Video Awards

	Jarrah & Gen in action

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:

"Filmmakers top second Festival" - Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 29/03/04

"Hollywood Magic on Geelong Streets" - Geelong Advertiser, Monday 12/04/04

"Pooling Power on Shorts Circuit" - MX, Friday 21/05/04

"Sitting in the morning sun, sittin' when the evening come" - Human Services News - June 2004

"Lights Camera Stopwatch" - GT Magazine, Saturday March 19/03/05

"Shootout Special" - Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 23/03/05

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Eleven website

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