Tammy Coleman-Zweck is a Kokatha and Greek emerging storyteller from Ceduna, on the West Coast of South Australia.

Coleman-Zweck was featured as a part of SA Film Corporation’s (SAFC) NAIDOC Week series celebrating First Nations South Australian screen creatives.

The Greek-Indigenous Australian was recently accepted into the 2022 AFTRS Talent Camp while taking part in the inaugural SAFC First Nations Short Film Writers’ Program.

Coleman-Zweck is currently developing a contemporary supernatural drama, Bountiful, which she says “will heighten the senses and the tastebuds, with decadent desserts and a whole lot of spirits”.

At the same time she is working on a coming-of-age short film, which explores watchmaking, time and cultural identity through the eyes of a young First Nations woman.

Coleman-Zweck kick started her career as a scholarship recipient for the Mercury CX Springboard Program, an initiative funded by the SAFC, which built on her knowledge of the film industry and led her to script writing.

“After the program, I teamed up with Director Adam Jenkins to co-write and produce the short film Wild at Heart – a family drama about three generations of Indigenous women brought together by a 1965 Red Ford Mustang Convertible,” she told SAFC.

“I am loving the opportunity to work with Indigenous Directors, actors and crew and continue to explore partnership arrangements. I want to keep writing innovative scripts and see them come to life on the screen and to entertain global audiences,” she added, saying that her goal is to establish a production company and employ local actors and crew to make movies about intergenerational relationships and post-trauma growth..

“The thing I enjoy most about working in the industry is the highly collaborative teamwork on film projects and the attention to detail that can be achieved with sufficient time, mentoring and resources,” she said.

“My dream industry job is to write an exciting screenplay and to produce a successful feature film with my choice of actors and Director.”

Watch Wild at Heart – Short Film here: https://youtu.be/3ptNKyYYr7s

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