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Griffith Film School grads are taking the plunge into the brave new world of online content.
It’s not all cat videos and viral home movies – the web is now a legitimate platform for young filmmakers who are attracting large audiences and scooping up awards.
Fresh, funny and irreverent
Griffith Film School graduate Connor McDuff is the creator and star of the Cracker Milk YouTube channel.
Last year, he produced the first web series on the Griffith Film School graduate slate. The resulting three-part comedy series, F****ed Fairytales, was nominated for an Australian Online Video Award last month.
“Most people do a short film for their graduate project, but I’ve loved online for years, and I thought I may as well make something I’m passionate about,” he says.
“I think you can create stuff for online that is irreverent, individual and unique.
“It was loads of fun and the biggest project of my career to date.”
The young filmmaker

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After completing his PhD through Griffith University, Dr Niels Kraaier’s comparison of government communications in Australia and the Netherlands has culminated in an invitation to the prestigious EU-Australia Leadership Forum (EUALF) in June.
A unique project in the European Union’s suite of diplomacy actions, the forum will be held in Sydney from 4-6 June, bringing together representatives from business, civil society, academia, media and government to discuss, design and collaborate on ideas around the future of the EU-Australian relationship.
A dual citizen of Australia and the Netherlands, Dr Kraaier’s thesis – The Politics of Government Communications – has attracted attention for its insight into political, societal and cultural understanding between the two countries.
“My PhD was in Organisational and Cross-Cultural Communication and my interviews with government communication personnel provided an intriguing insight into how national cultures and political systems impact upon work practices,” says Dr Kraaier.
“While both Australia and the Netherlands are advanced

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When she was a young girl Benita Richmond’s parents told her she should become a lawyer when she grew up.
“That was usually when I was arguing with them,’’ the Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Government/International Relations student recalled.
But it was to be many years and a circuitous route before Benita pursued that dream.
Although achieving quite well at school, after starting a family at a young age, she opted not to pursue tertiary education.
“With young children, a career was never really a consideration for me and I accepted jobs based primarily on their ability to fit around family commitments,’’ she said.
This included running a kitchen at a specialty cake shop and working in her husband’s building business, eventually leading to several roles in architectural sales and account management.
“I was successful because I am gregarious and good at talking but I didn’t feel like it was where I was meant to be long-term,’’

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An innovative reading program focusing on school principals as leaders and change makers is raising literacy levels across Australia.
The Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) program, originally developed and presented by Griffith University, Edith Cowan University and the Australian Catholic University in 2009, aimed to improve students’ literacy outcomes by empowering principals to become literacy leaders.
The program was developed under the sponsorship of the Australian Primary Principals Association, and was funded by the Commonwealth Government’s Closing the Gap initiative.
More than 1500 people in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia have now undertaken the program.
Professor Tony Townsend from the Griffith Institute for Educational Research offers the research and development program in partnership with Anne Bayetto, a literacy and numeracy expert from Flinders University.
“In the early days, it was just the principals that were involved, but we found that having a single person in the school was not as effective as

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Dr Frances Lin, a senior lecturer of School of Nursing and Midwifery has been awarded the first visiting professorship at Peking University First Hospital (PKUFH). The visiting professorship is in recognition of Dr Frances Lin’s ongoing commitment and contribution to the hospital’s research program development, and her efforts in promoting evidence based practice, and translating research evidence into clinical practice in China. Dr Frances Lin, in collaboration with Prof Andrea Marshall, hosted two visitor scholars (Ms Jing Li, and Ms Shuhui YU) from PKUFH on conducting translational research in 2016. Dr Lin is a key collaborator on a number of projects being conducted at the PKUFH. Ms Yanjing Ding, Director of Nursing of PKUFH, presented the certificate to Dr Frances Lin at a research seminar.
“It’s such an honor to receive this award. Peking University First Hospital is one of the best tertiary teaching hospitals in China”, said Dr Lin who

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