About

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.

While a Research Fellow Filmmaker in Residence at Monash, she completed the powerful transmedia work One Billion Beats, that examined the historical representation of Aboriginal people in Australian cinema. Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle and worked on a project about Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property. With Dr Lou Bennett, Romaine has been working closely with AFTRS over the last two years on a first-of-its-kind Indigenous Curriculum for screen and broadcast, focussed through the lens of ethics and aesthetics.