Biography
Gita Irwin is an award winning writer and filmmaker who focuses on creating hard-hitting genre content for various platforms . She is a freelance writer-producer whose work marries a passion for social justice issues such as income inequality, animal welfare, the environment, with her love of surreal genres such as Science Fiction/Horror/Fantasy/ Thrillers.
She writes horror-fantasy fiction, and historical fiction, and her short stories have been published in literary journals including Overland, Meanjin and Vertigo. Her story, 'No Easy Kill' was accepted into the Bondi Tides Anthology, which had a book launch attended by the Waverley Mayor in March 2012. One time Vice President [2011] and long time member of the Bondi Writers Group [BWG], her stories and poems have won commendations in various writing competitions, and are included in the annual BWG Public Readings held at the Waverley Library Theatre as a part of the Waverley Literary Festival [Waverley Words Festival].
Gita spent a decade in the corporate world of finance, where she dealt with fixing financial problems and got savvy in budgeting, administrative management and sales, before she took a gamble and decided to follow her lifelong passion for film. She parlayed the skills honed in her banking years into the role of Producer on several short films.
In her pursuit to know all she could about production and post-production, Gita has worked behind the scenes on film crews in various roles including assistant editor, arts department, camera-person, before she settled into writing and producing, (though she still enjoys helping out talented filmmaking colleagues when and where she can). As a producer, she goes above and beyond the confines of the role, from fundraising to overseeing and managing production, through to post, she has even doubled as costume maker and art department when required!
Her favourite directors include Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Peter Jackson, Kathryn Bigelow, and Terrence Malick. She single-mindedly focuses on good storytelling and resonant emotional content in her work.
