Making The Film

Sally Ingleton - Director/Producer

Sally is a partner in the Australian company 360 Degree Films. As well as doing stints as a film bureaucrat and teacher she has been producing and directing award-winning documentaries for the past 20 years. Specialising in science, arts, history and social issues Sally has made programs for BBC, Channel 4, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, ABCTV, SBSTV, and NHK.

Sally is currently producing Murder in the Snow – a 1 hour documentary about a fatal shooting of a Tibetan teenager on the Chinese border (SBS/BBC/TSR/YLE/RTBF/NGTI) and Community Cop (SBS/Film Australia) about a community policing program in inner city Melbourne. In 2007 Sally produced 2 Mums and a Dad (SBS), which won Best Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards and Best Documentary at the Australian Teachers of Media Awards.

In 2006 Sally produced Welcome 2 My Deaf World (SBS) which was nominated for Best Documentary at both the Australian Film Institute and Australian Teacher’s of Media Awards. It won the most popular film at the Real Life on Film Documentary Film Festival Melbourne.

Other work include:

Muddy Waters: Life and Death on the Great Barrier Reef (SBS) which received much international acclaim and won the coveted Jury Prize at Japan’s top environment Festival Earth Vision as well as the Best Environment and Conservation Award at the Japanese Wildlife Film Festival. It was also nominated for a UN Media Peace Prize, and short-listed for Best Documentary on sustainable development at the British Environment and Media Awards.

Painting Country (Produced by Electric Pictures for NHK/SBS) that followed a group of Aboriginal artists on a journey back to their traditional country in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. It sold widely and won the silver Chris Award at the Columbus Film festival.

Mao’s New Suit (SBS/Ch4) charts the course of two Beijing fashion designers as they launch themselves on the Shanghai market. It won Best Documentary at Chicago and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Hawaii and Sydney International Film Festivals.

The Tenth Dancer (BBC/ABC) was about the rebuilding of the Cambodian ballet after Pol Pot. It was invited to over 20 international film festivals, including Cinema Du Reel and winning awards in Japan, Chicago and San Francisco (Golden Gate Award) plus a nomination for Best Documentary at Hawaii International Film Festival. It won Best Documentary 1994 Australian Teachers of Media Awards.