Bachelor of Arts: Screen Production, 2021
Tace Stevens is a Noongar and Spinifex photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Perth, Western Australia.
In 2017, Tace’s creative journey started with writing and photography. She completed a Diploma of Creative and Indigenous Writing at Charles Darwin University and began working as a photographer’s assistant.
In 2021, Tace completed the BA Screen: Production at AFTRS. She wrote and directed her graduate film, To Be Silent, a short documentary about identity and code-switching, featuring animation and live action re-enactments. This film had its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival in 2023.
In 2023, Tace received a grant from Magnum Foundation and the World Monument Fund, to work with the Survivors of the Kinchela Boys Home, a state-run institution that forcibly removed hundreds of Indigenous boys from their families between 1924 and 1970. This body of work, We Were Just Little Boys, exhibited at the Centre of Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy, Victoria, as part of PHOTO 2024.
In 2023, Tace’s short documentary, Anangu Way was selected for development and production through a Screen Australia and Network 10 initiative, First Facts. Anangu Way is a short observational documentary that follows Tace’s older brother, Keenan, as he travels 11 hours to spend a week with their father in remote Western Australia, and is taught how to make a miru, a traditional spear thrower.
In 2024, Tace was selected to participate in Garuwa and DocSociety’s Impact Lab held at Kangaroo Valley.