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Kodie Bedford Kodie Bedford i(10726113 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Djaru / Jaru ; Aboriginal Kija
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BiographyHistory

After graduating from the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia, Kodie Bedford moved to Sydney to work as a journalist. She worked for SBS's Living Black before joining the ABC's Message Stick. When Message Stick was cancelled, she moved to the ABC Indigenous Department. After deciding she wanted to break into script-writing, she joined MediaRING, a volunteer association of industry and screen organisations with a focus on creating opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in the media.

Her first film script, Yarrabah, was funded by Screen Australia in 2017. She also served as script and story editor on Grace Beside Me.

Sources:

'Showcase on Indigenous talent – Kodie Bedford'. MediaRING, 4 May 2016. http://www.mediaring.com.au/news/showcase-on-indigenous-talent-kodie-bedford/

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2019 highly commended black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships for the unpublished manuscript 'Sunny Daughter Girl'
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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon All My Friends Are Racist ( dir. Bjorn Stewart ) Australia : Maximo Entertainment Hoodlum Entertainment Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2021 23368743 2021 series - publisher film/TV

'In a survival-of-the-fiercest, two twenty-something black millennials decide it's time to call the racists out. They think it could cause a revolution, instead it causes a downgrade in lifestyle.'

Source: ABC iView.
2021 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Short Form Comedy
form y separately published work icon Broken ( dir. Wayne Blair ) Australia : Bunya Productions Australian Broadcasting Commission , 2020 20826037 2020 single work film/TV
2020 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Screenplay in Television
2020 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Direction in a Television Drama or Comedy
Cursed! 2020 single work drama

'Bernadette hasn’t been home to Geraldton for a while. Her siblings are mad as cut snakes, the oldies are worse – even a simple conversation ends up a cyclone of screaming. But Nan’s leaving the world, and this mixed-up family returns to the roost; a brother living a big lie, a daughter swimming in little lies, and a mum who can’t tell the truth to save herself. Are they cursed? Or can they change the way they see themselves, and how the world sees them?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2021 winner AWGIE Awards — Major Award
2021 winner AWGIE Awards — Stage Award
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