Producer and disability advocate Tracey Corbin-Matchett will be bestowed with the AWFF Groundbreaker Award at the Australian Women’s Film Festival on 17th September 2024.
The AWFF supports, encourages and ultimately celebrates female storytellers and leaders within the film industry by giving them a platform to showcase their talent both in front of and behind the camera.
It’s a well deserved honour for Tracey who has been at the forefront of advocating for greater representation of people with disability in the screen industry, receiving an OAM in 2023 for service to the arts and to people with disability.
Tracey is a proud hard of hearing woman with a passion for film, advocacy and inclusion.
Her 25-year career has crossed social housing, women’s domestic violence services, including 6 years as the State Manager of Women’s Domestic Violence Court Assistance Program and the film and television industry, working with a number of industry services including Screen NSW, Event Cinemas and Women in Film and TV (WIFT) NSW.
Her advocacy work in the screen industry has seen her lead on strategies including “Screenability” and “She Shoots” at Screen NSW and WIFT’s Raising Films Australia and growing the work of Bus Stop Films on a global scale.
Tracey is an Includeability Ambassador on disability employment to the Australian Human Rights Commission and a Director of Deaf Sports Australia and Northcott (Disability Services). She is also a member of the Screen Australia’s Gender Matter Taskforce, Screen Producer’s Australia Respectful Workplaces Reference Group and TAFE NSW Creative Industries Taskforce.
Tracey was a member of the Australian delegation of disability advocates to the United Nation’s 15th Conference of State Parties to The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Tracey is Executive Producer of Bus Stop’s slate and co-produced films including Groundhog Night and Valiant.
Tracey is the CEO of Bus Stop Films and organiser of the Driving Change Summit.
Held over two days on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th November, the summit will bring together the disability and commercial advertising, broadcast and production sectors to explore the employment of people with disability across the screen industry, on both sides of the camera and above and below the line.
