Romaine Moreton

Dr Romaine Moreton is a writer of poetry, prose and film, and as of 2022 Director of First Nations and Outreach at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She is an Aboriginal Australian woman, of the Goenpul Yagera (Stradbroke Island) and Bundjulung (northern New South Wales) peoples, who grew up in country New South Wales. In 2007 she was selected by the Australian Film Commission to participate in a project aiming to nurture and develop the talents of emerging Indigenous filmmakers. She worked on a post-doctoral research project about Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property at the University of Newcastle (Australia), and in 2016 created a transmedia theatre work called "One Billion Beats", examining the historical representation of Aboriginal people in Australian cinema.