Dot West is an

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screenwriter.

Education

West qualified with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies in 1998.

Career

West is a freelance

scriptwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

, accredited trainer and consultant, and also serves on

Screenwest Screenwest is Western Australia's screen funding and development organisation, working in partnership with the screen industry to develop, support and promote film, television and digital media production in Western Australia. Screenwest receive ...

's Industry Advisory Group and WA's Screen Industry Diversity and Inclusion leadership group. West has served as a board member in various organisations including the Inaugural Vice Chairperson of

NITV National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the six-day-a-week ''NITV News Updat ...

, Screenwest,

Australian International Documentary Conference The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) is an Australian conference for the promotion of documentary, factual and unscripted screen content, regarded as one of two major national conferences for filmmakers. History First esta ...

, the National Indigenous Radio Service. West is a non-Executive Director of SBS, Director of Goolarri Media Enterprises and Ramu Productions in Broome and the Chairperson of

First Nations Media Australia First Nations Media Australia (FNMA), formerly Indigenous Remote Communications Association (IRCA), is the national peak body for Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander not-for-profit broadcasting, media and communications. History The ...

. In 1993, West delivered one of the annual series of

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Boyer Lectures The Boyer Lectures are a series of talks by prominent Australians, presenting ideas on major social, scientific or cultural issues, and broadcast on ABC Radio National. The Boyer Lectures began in 1959 as the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commi ...

called "Voices of the Land".

Personal

Dot West was born Dorothy Henry, a

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the South West, Western Australia, south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton, Western Aus ...

woman from Western Australia's south west.

Honours and awards

* 2005 Tudawali Award * 2008 WASA for "Outstanding Contribution to the WA Screen Industry" * 2014 Honorary Doctorate from

Swinburne University of Technology The Swinburne University of Technology (or simply Swinburne) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne ...

* 2009 AWGIE Award for her work on '' The Circuit'' * 2019 First Nations Media Lifetime Achievement Award

References

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