Dot West Dot West i(A107516 works by) (a.k.a. Dorothy West)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Dot West has had an interest in media from a young age and has worked in the print industry, producing the glossy magazine Aboriginal and Islander Identity and a monthly newspaper Aboriginal and Islander Forum.

By the late 1980s, she had begun working in the radio industry, before expanding her interests into film and television. West was the Chairperson of the National Indigenous Media Association of Australia and the head of Productions and Business Develpment with Goolarri Media in Broome.

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form y separately published work icon Serpent's Eye ( dir. Tony Thorne ) Australia : Ned Lander Media Australian Children's Television Foundation , 2021 26406126 2021 single work film/TV
2022 nominated AWGIE Awards — Children's Award — P Classification
form y separately published work icon Desert Camp Victoria : Ned Lander Media Australian Children's Television Foundation , 2020 20269767 2020 single work film/TV children's
2020 nominated AWGIE Awards — Children's Award — P Classification
form y separately published work icon The Circuit : Series 2 Australia : Media World Pictures , 2009 Z1622302 2009 single work film/TV Aboriginal lawyer Drew Ellis continues his journey through the chaotic, challenging world of the Kimberley Court, a circuit that takes a magistrate and an entourage of court officers and lawyers on a regular five-day, 2000-kilometre round trip to dispense justice to the dusty, remote communities of northern Western Australia. (Screen Australia record)
2009 winner AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Mini-series - Original
2010 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
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