Kath Shelper

Kath grew up in country Victoria and then did a PR degree at RMIT in Melbourne (even though she wanted to do Media but didn’t get in). When she finished she hung out in Melbourne and worked on Emma-Kate Croghan’s film school films and did odd jobs for Circus Oz. She scored a producer attachment on Lawrence Johnston’s doco Eternity and moved to Sydney “just for six months” but fifteen years later she’s still there.

Kath has managed to eek a living out of producing more than her fair share of short films and everyone is probably relieved that she’s finally graduated to a feature. Kath and Warwick Thornton made Green Bush and Nana together, and Kath’s other films include Plains Empty, Above the Dust Level and Confessions of a Headhunter, which won the AFI Award for Best Short in 2000.

Kath’s skills include touch-typing and she doesn’t believe that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Kath is pictured here seated, with Beck Cole standing behind her.