Appearing on panel ‘The Cultural Cringe’ for the Centre for Advancing Journalism’s New News Conference, alongside Jason Di Rosso, Ramona Koval and Jonathan Green.
Hosting a panel on the page-to-screen adaptation of Barracuda at Screen Futures, with Christos Tsolkias, Elias Anton and Tony Ayres.
Hosting discussion for the Australian film Lion at Cinema Nova, with the real-life inspirations Saroo and Sue Brierley.
I was a judge on the FIPRESCI jury at New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland
Essayist Leslie Jamison’s nonfiction workshop at Disquiet International Literary Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
Interviewing Finnish actress Laura Birn at the Scandinavian Film Festival, Palace Como.
Hosting ‘Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing’, with Wendy Whiteley and biographer Ashleigh Wilson, at the 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival.
I travelled to Solo and Yogyakarta as part of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival Satellite Program, doing events with essayist/critic Bandung Mawardi and Iman Budi Santosa.
From 2012-2014 I was the Project Coordinator for The Under Age, a high school journalism program by Express Media and The Age to produce a fortnightly newspaper.
Hosting ‘DIY Filmmaking’ panel at Shadow Electric Cinema.
I was invited to attend the Berlin Film Festival as a guest of the German Federal Government’s Visitors Programme, alongside critics, journalists, programmers and filmmakers from around the world.
Hosting ‘Why Write’ at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, with Nam Le, Mireille Juchau, Okky Madasari and Amanda Curtin.
Penning a letter to a mistake at Women of Letters.
Rebecca Harkins-Cross 