Bachelor of Arts: Screen Production, 2021
Tace Stevens is a Noongar and Spinifex woman from Western Australia. She is a documentary photographer and emerging filmmaker based in Sydney.
Tace’s creative journey started in 2017, with writing and photography. She completed a Diploma of Creative and Indigenous Writing at Charles Darwin University and started working as a photographer’s assistant.
In 2021, Tace completed the BA: Screen Production at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. 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 the 2023 Sydney Film Festival, where it screened twice.
In 2022, Tace received a grant from the Magnum Foundation and the World Monument Fund. Over a ten-month period, she will be working with the Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation, documenting the Survivors stories, through audio and photography.
In 2023, Tace was accepted into the Netflix Unit Photography Bootcamp and her visual work was shown in the Blak Lens Collective exhibition at Ambush Gallery in Sydney.
Also in 2023, her short documentary Anangu Way was one of 8 projects selected for development, as part of First Facts: First Nations Factual Showcase, an initiative between Screen Australia and Network 10.
With a background in community development and education, Tace wants to be a part of stories that challenge, educate, and entertain. Stories that are authentic and reflect the diversities of the communities she lives in and beyond.