The Beehive, winner of the inaugural ACMI and Artbank film commission,[2] explores the 1975 disappearance of Juanita Nielsen, presumed murdered for her opposition to development in Victoria Street, Kings Cross.
It combines fictional sequences with documentary footage including an interview with Nielsen's lover at the time of her disappearance, David Farrell.
[5] This work loosely references Christine de Pizan's book of the same name, written in Paris in 1402, which is considered one of the earliest feminist texts.
Kannagi is the central character of the Tamil epic Silapathikaram who burns down the kingdom when her husband is wrongly accused of a crime and executed by the King.
The film includes interviews with three Sri Lankan Tamil writers based in Australia, Niromi de Soyza, Shankari Chandaran and Srisha Sritharan and won the established artist residency for the 66th Blake Prize for Religious Art.