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Sue Maslin
Susan Mary Maslin AO (born 1958 or 1959) is an Australian screen producer. She is best known for her feature films Road to Nhill (1997), Japanese Story (2003), and The Dressmaker (2015), but has produced or executive produced more documentary films than fiction features. She is co-founder of the company Film Art Media, established in 2008 with her creative and business partner Daryl Dellora, based in Melbourne.
Susan Mary Maslin was born in 1958 or 1959, and raised on a sheep station north of Jerilderie in rural New South Wales. She regularly participated in the horse-riding competition at the Yanco bush picnic, and won it twice. She attended boarding school at St Margaret's School in Melbourne. The author of The Dressmaker, Rosalie Ham, also from Jerilderie, attended the same school, a few years ahead of Maslin.
Initially graduating with a Bachelor of Science from Australian National University and intending to do an honours year in zoology, Maslin instead switched to media studies at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (CCAE), after being attracted by the film posters in the building. Her only exposure to media so far had been as a member of the Women's Broadcasting Collective at the community radio station 2XX, but she gained entry as one of four full-time students at the faculty. The course had a focus on film history rather than practice, and she graduated with a Graduate Diploma in Media in 1983 after a year of study. It was at CCAE that Maslin met Daryl Dellora, her long-term creative and business partner, who was a fellow student in the Graduate Diploma of Media Studies.
Politicised on campus by the birth of second wave feminism in Australia, Maslin started what would become a lifelong fight for women's rights. Maslin was involved with the Women Against Rape in War group, some of whom were arrested and charged in Canberra for using ANZAC Day to protest rape being used as a weapon in war in 1981. In 1983, she and Frances Sutherland produced and directed a video called "More than one day of the year". Maslin wrote the music and lyrics for a song was recorded by the rock band Domestic Dirt in 1982.
Later in her career, in 2013, Maslin completed the two-year Master of Screen Arts and Business degree at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She did this with the specific goal of learning how to create a business plan in order to attract private capital and for a feature film, before producing The Dressmaker.
Maslin wrote, directed, and produced her first feature documentary Thanks Girls and Goodbye (1988), about the Australian Land Army – the women who worked on farms during the Second World War and supported the war effort through food production. She then went on to produce the hour-long documentary Mr Neal Is Entitled to Be an Agitator (1991), co-written and directed by Daryl Dellora, about Lionel Murphy's battle to retain his position on the High Court of Australia. The film was nominated for Best Documentary at the Australian Film Institute Award in 1992. A Senses of Cinema reviewer wrote in 2017 "in the eyes of this viewer, the film was able to capture something greater than the circumstances that surrounded Lionel Murphy during his lifetime".
Conspiracy, a 1994 documentary about the 1978 Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing, was produced by Maslin, and directed and co-written by Dellora.
She produced her first feature drama, Road to Nhill (1997), with director Sue Brooks and screenwriter Alison Tilson, which won Best Feature Film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 1997.
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Sue Maslin
Susan Mary Maslin AO (born 1958 or 1959) is an Australian screen producer. She is best known for her feature films Road to Nhill (1997), Japanese Story (2003), and The Dressmaker (2015), but has produced or executive produced more documentary films than fiction features. She is co-founder of the company Film Art Media, established in 2008 with her creative and business partner Daryl Dellora, based in Melbourne.
Susan Mary Maslin was born in 1958 or 1959, and raised on a sheep station north of Jerilderie in rural New South Wales. She regularly participated in the horse-riding competition at the Yanco bush picnic, and won it twice. She attended boarding school at St Margaret's School in Melbourne. The author of The Dressmaker, Rosalie Ham, also from Jerilderie, attended the same school, a few years ahead of Maslin.
Initially graduating with a Bachelor of Science from Australian National University and intending to do an honours year in zoology, Maslin instead switched to media studies at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (CCAE), after being attracted by the film posters in the building. Her only exposure to media so far had been as a member of the Women's Broadcasting Collective at the community radio station 2XX, but she gained entry as one of four full-time students at the faculty. The course had a focus on film history rather than practice, and she graduated with a Graduate Diploma in Media in 1983 after a year of study. It was at CCAE that Maslin met Daryl Dellora, her long-term creative and business partner, who was a fellow student in the Graduate Diploma of Media Studies.
Politicised on campus by the birth of second wave feminism in Australia, Maslin started what would become a lifelong fight for women's rights. Maslin was involved with the Women Against Rape in War group, some of whom were arrested and charged in Canberra for using ANZAC Day to protest rape being used as a weapon in war in 1981. In 1983, she and Frances Sutherland produced and directed a video called "More than one day of the year". Maslin wrote the music and lyrics for a song was recorded by the rock band Domestic Dirt in 1982.
Later in her career, in 2013, Maslin completed the two-year Master of Screen Arts and Business degree at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She did this with the specific goal of learning how to create a business plan in order to attract private capital and for a feature film, before producing The Dressmaker.
Maslin wrote, directed, and produced her first feature documentary Thanks Girls and Goodbye (1988), about the Australian Land Army – the women who worked on farms during the Second World War and supported the war effort through food production. She then went on to produce the hour-long documentary Mr Neal Is Entitled to Be an Agitator (1991), co-written and directed by Daryl Dellora, about Lionel Murphy's battle to retain his position on the High Court of Australia. The film was nominated for Best Documentary at the Australian Film Institute Award in 1992. A Senses of Cinema reviewer wrote in 2017 "in the eyes of this viewer, the film was able to capture something greater than the circumstances that surrounded Lionel Murphy during his lifetime".
Conspiracy, a 1994 documentary about the 1978 Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing, was produced by Maslin, and directed and co-written by Dellora.
She produced her first feature drama, Road to Nhill (1997), with director Sue Brooks and screenwriter Alison Tilson, which won Best Feature Film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 1997.