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Dr. Jan Cattoni

Bachelor of Arts Humanities (Hons), Grad Dip Media Production, Doctorate of Visual Arts, Registered General Nurse
Lecturer - Screen/Film
School of Education and the Arts
Centre for Research in Equity & Advancement of Teaching & Education (CREATE), Creative Arts Research Training Academy (CARTA)
(07) 4037 5144
+61 411484642 Alternative Phone
Cairns
42-52 Abbott Street - Level 3
Cairns, Qld 4870
About Me

Jan Cattoni is passionate about the importance of storytelling and its capacity to bring positive change to people's lives. Jan's professional career spans several disciplines including filmmaker, academic and paediatric intensive care nurse. Jan has woven these disciplines into a kind of hybrid career in ethical filmmaking, often working with vulnerable individuals and marginalised communities. Jan’s broadcast credits are as a writer director of short drama, documentary, and factual series for ABC, SBS and RTE (Ireland). After moving back to north Queensland, a decade ago, Jan has worked in many remote communities co-creating content for community and broadcast organisations, and mentoring emerging creators. In these environments, Jan has been able to explore participative filmmaking, collaborative scripting, and creative responses to complex issues. This work has attracted numerous awards. Jan's research interests are in creative practice research, and she is currently a Chief Researcher on the ARC Discovery Project, Future Stories, co-creating virtual worlds with young people in hospital. Jan is the lead of the Creative Arts Research Training Academy and a member of CREATE. Jan teaches into the Bachelor of Digital Media Screen Production Minor on the Cairns campus and is a member of Screen Queensland's, North Queensland Screen Advisory Committee.

General
Background

Jan lives in a very old Japanese House in North Queensland https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-15/traditional-japanese-house-north-queensland-restoration/102588266 and is committed to regional storytelling and representation,

Universities Studied At

Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland

Queensland College of Art, South Brisbane, Queensland

Universities Worked At

Griffith University, Nathan, 4111  Queensland

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 

Queensland College of Art, South Brisbane, 4101, Queensland

James Cook University, Townsville, 4810 Queensland

Central Queensland University, Cairns 4870, Queensland

Awards

Vice Chancellors Listing for Excellence for Doctoral Exegesis

Screen writing award: https://cinemaaustralia.com.au/tag/the-big-pineapple/

Numerous Filmmaking Awards

AVC Shining Star Award Cairns Campus

Media Citations

Palya Futures: The Social Life of Kimberley Aboriginal Media
by Lempert, William David, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2018, 457; 10831133

https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/2113503688.html?FMT=ABS

Vicarious trauma and emotion work in documentary filmmaking by Kym Meltzer

 

Previous teaching

Clincal Facilitator in Nursing, Griffith University

Lecturer in Nursing, Queensland University of Technology

Foundation Lecturer for a fully integrated problem-based Bachelor of Nursing at Griffith University, Brisbane

Casual Academic, Queensland College of Art, Morningside, Brisbane

Casual Academic, Griffith Film School, South Brisbane

Casual Academic, James Cook University, Townsville

Ten years teaching and mentoring in remote Indigenous communities in Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Professional Experience

Jan has worked in the film industry as a writer, director and producer of documentary, drama and animation over a period of two decades.

Jan has taught digital storytelling in many remote locations across Australia and in Pacific Island Nations.

Jas has worked as a Clinical Nurse in the Paediatric Intensive Care Environment.

Jan has worked as a mentor and consultant for many organisations working in the health arts space. 

Jan was the creative facilitator of the DFAT funded See Me Hear Me initiative, a capacity building program to address gender equity for muslim women working in film and media in Indonesia and Bangladesh:

See Me Hear Me

 

 

Professional Memberships

Australian Writers Guild

Jan is an invtited member of the North Queensland Screen Advisory Committee

 

Responsibilities

Campus Coordinator Digital Media Cairns

Professional Interests

Gender Equity in the Film Industry 

Collaborative scriptwriting

Participative filmmaking 

Alternative production models

Diversity on screen and behind the camera

Key Achievements

Creator, Writer Director of 2 x broadcast series, Chopper Rescue 1 & 2 for ABC TV based almost entirely in north Queensland

Jan has mentored a number of emerging directors from remote Indigenous communities whose work has gone on to receive numerous awards

Jan is a CI on an ARC Discovery grant Future Stories.

Computer Software

Jan teaches eiditng and post-production using Adobe Premiere Pro.

Consultancy Work

Jan has worked as a mentor and consultant for many organisations working in the health arts space. She is currently the overseas collaborator in the University College Cork's: Research into the promotion of nursing and midwifery as a career of choice involving the media of film.

Jan has been a creative consultant and facilitiator on many projects including the following:

Keeping on Country: Recidivism Research Report, Doomadgee and Mornington Island

https://www.indigenousjustice.gov.au/resources/keeping-on-country-recidivism-research-report-doomadgee-and-mornington-island/

Indigenous Community Television Card Stories Series 1 & 2: https://www.corporate.ictv.com.au/productionsold/card-stories/ 

Indigenous Community Television Bedtime Stories: https://ictv.com.au/playlists/list/47

 

Research Supervision
Accreditation

I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:

  • 3605 Screen and digital media
  • 3699 Other creative arts and writing

Current Capacity
I am currently available to supervise more research candidates
Research Interests
Languages, Communication And Culture

Communication and Media Studies - Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
My research interests include arts/health, narrative, participative filmmaking, consent. gender equity, alternative models of filmmaking.

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