BIOGRAPHIE

Marisa has fifteen years filmmaking experience in various types of production including animation, production design and illustration. Marisa splits her production time between animation and live action projects and has directed leading Australian actors including Noni Hazlehurst, Xavier Samuel & Paul McDermott and her films have screened at FlickerFest, St Kilda Film Festival and the New York International Short Film Festival. In recent years, Marisa has focussed on animation, screen graphics and graphic design for film and television, working on projects such as The Invisible Man, Children of the Corn, Cleverman (s2), Janet King (s3), Pacific Rim 2, Top of the Lake (s2), Nekrotronic, Pine Gap and The Secret Daughter (s2). Marisa has run the Lights! Canberra! Action! Filmmaking festival for fifteen years and has also been a member of the ScreenACT Industry Taskforce Panel, artsACT Peer Review Committee for Film & Digital Media Funding and is also a film reviewer for the Movie Club on ArtSound FM Radio. She published the free monthly newsletter, The Canberra Film Files, for eleven years. Marisa occasionally teaches production and screenwriting at the University of Canberra.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2021 Violet Daze Director, Production, Sales, Script, Special effects, Script, Special effects, Script, Special effects
• 2020 The Sacred Director
• 2018 Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame Director, Production, Sales, Referent, Sound designer, Animation, Editing, Special effects, Decors, Sound designer, Animation, Editing, Special effects, Decors, Sound designer, Animation, Editing, Special effects, Decors
• 2016 El Ogro Decors, Decors, Decors
• 2008 One if by Will Director, Production, Sales, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing
• 2005 Thursday Director, Production