Miro Bilbrough

Before becoming a filmmaker, Miro Bilbrough worked as an art curator, an art critic, a film journalist, a cook, a bar tender and briefly, in a fish factory. She also published her poetry extensively in New Zealand, her country of birth. Her first short film URN (1996), is an adaptation of one of her poems. It was made after she settled in Sydney, where it gained theatrical release. As writer-director her other credits are Floodhouse (2004), a short feature film, and Bartleby (2000), an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic tale (Silver Medal for Fiction, Bilbao International Film Festival, Spain, 2001). Other film credits include the BAFTA-nominated children's animation _Bad Baby Amy (2001)_, which she wrote, and as co-writer, the docu-dramas Car Crash (David Caesar) and The Fifth Continent. She also wrote the coffee table book for Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge.