Alex Kelly

Alex Kelly is an Australian freelance artist, filmmaker and producer based in regional Australia. Kelly was born in regional NSW and grew up in a farming community near Wodonga in regional Victoria, Kelly has worked with diverse communities in Australia and around the world including Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, Amsterdam, Barcelona and the UK organising and lobbying for social change. She has been involved in community development, the arts, media (communication), environmental protection and social justice projects. Social justice In the 1990s, Kelly was involved in organising campaign events in Melbourne and across Australia. She was involved in the campaign and blockade against the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine in the Kakadu National Park led by the Mirrar people, NT where she developed an interest in independent media. Back in Melbourne, she was involved in the founding collective of Melbourne Indymedia and worked on SKA TV's weekly activist news program Access News on Channel 31, Melbourne. Alongside her work in environmental conservation, sustainable development and social justice, she has worked with young people sharing skills in media arts in remote central Australian areas. In 2001, Kelly took part in the anti-capitalist People's Global Action conference and "people's caravan" in Bolivia. She worked for social justice organisations in the Netherlands, Spain and Morocco, was co-editor of Greenpepper (social justice and environmental magazine) in Amsterdam, participated in organising a technology event with Genderchangers collective in Croatia and did grass roots distribution for several Australian independent film makers by travelling around Europe screening their documentaries in social centres, squats, at protests, conferences and gatherings for 6 months in 2002/3.