Tim Mummery
Tim is an independent director, cinematographer, editor and video producer working across the documentary, news and feature mediums.
Tim pioneered the creation of video content for online news website Fairfax Digital, winning a Quill Award in 2007 and twice being nominated for prestigious journalism award The Walkleys. He has produced video content for The Guardian, The New Daily and Foxtel and continues to produce content across the Fairfax media portfolio. Tim's documentary photography also has appeared across print and online news mediums.
Tim specialises in the sensitive portrayal of artists' practice on film including his feature documentary Namarali which follows the renewal of ancient cave paintings with indigenous custodian Donny Woolagoodja (Director/Editor/Producer) and the two part ABC TV Documentary Portrait of a Distant Land, a portrait of Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer Ricky Maynard.
Tim has produced a wide range of content for clients including Arts Centre Melbourne, The Carpentaria Land Council, ACCA, Foxtel Festival TV, Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation and Mowanjum Arts Centre.
SELECT CREDITS 2002-2021
2021
Director/Editor/Producer, NAMARALI, 50min documentary
Director/Camera/Editor, 4xGP scenarios reproductive health conversations, VARTA
Recordist/Editor, Various podcast series, Nine Entertainment
Camera (pick ups), Palazzo Di Cozzo (Franco Cozzo documentary), Film Camp
Camera (BTS documentary), Pacifix live show, Gaba Musik
2020
Editor, Aboriginal Community gambling videos, Vic Responsible Gambling Foundation
Director/Camera/Editor, Abida Parveen promo, Arts Centre Melbourne
Camera, AsiaTopa promo, Arts Centre Melbourne
Camera (second unit), Multiply - The Film, Daybreak Films
Recordist, The Sure Thing (AFR podcast), Nine Entertainment [Walkley Award Nominated]
2002-2018
Various news, feature tourism projects with Fairfax Digital predominately working as a lone video journalist. Responsible for research, camerawork, scripting, voice-over and editing of online video news stories.
2019
Director/Camera/Editor, Tom Nicholson (Public Meeting) promo, ACCA
2018
Editor, Fairfax subscriber event (Year in review videos), Fairfax Media
Editor, Chrissy Amphlett tribute, Music Victoria Awards (Fairfax Media)
2017
Director/Camera/Editor, Norval Gallery video (18min), Mark & Mary Norval
Still photographer, Evanescence (Amos Gebhardt art project), Amos Gebhardt
2016
Camera/Editor, OA_RR (Reko Rennie video work), Reko Rennie
Director/Camera/Editor, Kuda Lumping promo, Arts Centre Melbourne
2015
Director/Camera/Editor, The secret to the perfect Negroni, Fairfax Media
2014
Director/Camera/Editor, Spotted by locals (Country Victorian celebrities tour their regional homelands), Fairfax Digital/Tourism Victoria
Director/Camera/Editor, The Rainbow Warrior Arrives (4min promo), Greenpeace Australia
Camera/Editor, Victorian Duck Hunting season opens, Guardian Australia
2013
Editor, Madjedbebe 2 (Kadadu archaeological dig), Community Prophets
Camera, The Bungalow Song (screen visuals), Opera Australia/Mbantua Festival
Director/Camera/Editor, The New Daily promo ‘launch’ video, The New Daily
2012
Editor, Festival TV, Daybreak Films
Director /Camera/Editor, Digital Dreamers (Online series exploring Australian in Silicon Valley), Fairfax Digital [Walkley Award Nominated]
2011
Editor, Garma TV, Community Prophets
2010
Director/Camera/Editor, The Wandjina People (18min documentary), Mowanjum Arts Centre
Director/Camera/Editor, Start Again the Right Way (12min ranger promo video), Carpentaria Land Council
Camera (second unit), Kapyong (documentary about the Battle of Kapyong during the Korean War), Arcimedia
2008
Camera, Portrait of a Distant Land (2x30min) - Profile of Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer Ricky Maynard, ABC TV
2007
Camera/Editor, Anatomy of a Murder (John Silvester investigation), Fairfax Digital [Walkley Award Nominated]