She was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge!
Her mother worked full-time as a teacher at a technical school, and went to the University of Melbourne at night to complete a degree in commerce.
[5][4] She went on a student trip to China, which at the time was in the throes of the Cultural Revolution,[4] and generally closed to foreigners; she became an honorary Red Guard there.
[4] In the mid-1970s, she was invited to a job in London, but, travelling via India, ended up staying in that country for a year, living a hippie-style existence in Goa and taking bit parts in local films.
[4] During the 1980s and 1990s, she started working with filmmakers on well-known films such as Dogs in Space (directed by Lowenstein, 1987), Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992), Muriel's Wedding (P.J.
[9] Dancing the Invisible includes commentary from Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrmann, Shekhar Kapur, Phil Noyce, Fred Schepisi, Richard Lowenstein, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Kriv Stenders, Ana Kokkinos, Sue Brooks, and Rachel Griffiths.
The film was directed, written, co-produced, and edited by Axel Grigor, and executive produced by Sue Maslin.