[2] Initially graduating with a Bachelor of Science from Australian National University and intending to do an honours year in zoology, Maslin instead switched to media studies at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (CCAE), after being attracted by the film posters in the building.
Her only exposure to media so far had been as a member of the Women's Broadcasting Collective at the community radio station 2XX, but she gained entry as one of four full-time students at the faculty.
[4] It was at CCAE that Maslin met Daryl Dellora, her long-term creative and business partner, who was a fellow student in the Graduate Diploma of Media Studies.
[6] Later in her career, in 2013, Maslin completed the two-year Master of Screen Arts and Business degree at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS).
She did this with the specific goal of learning how to create a business plan in order to attract private capital and for a feature film, before producing The Dressmaker.
[4] She then went on to produce the hour-long documentary Mr Neal Is Entitled to Be an Agitator (1991), co-written and directed by Daryl Dellora, about Lionel Murphy's battle to retain his position on the High Court of Australia.
[10] A Senses of Cinema reviewer wrote in 2017 "in the eyes of this viewer, the film was able to capture something greater than the circumstances that surrounded Lionel Murphy during his lifetime".
Starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving, the film was based on the book of the same title written by Rosalie Ham.
[citation needed] In 2021 Maslin said of The Dressmaker that it was "the most exhilarating project I've worked on, as well as the most stressful" (she said that she had often referred to it as The Stressmaker at the time[2]), and she was also proud that it had "paved the way for so many other female-driven films".
[7] The Show Must Go On (2019) is a documentary about mental health that screened on ABC TV, although it did not have all of the associated launch events that were planned owing to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.
[19] Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible[20][14] (78 mins),[21] which was released in cinemas, is a feature documentary film,[17] directed, written, co-produced, and edited by Axel Grigor, and executive produced by Maslin.
[35] Maslin was the inaugural recipient of the Jill Robb Award for Outstanding leadership, achievement and service to the Victorian screen industry in 2012.
[14][7] In June 2019 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to the Australian film industry as a producer, and through roles with professional bodies".