Ros Walker

Lecturer
Producing Courses

Roslyn completed a BA and a Bachelor of Letters (honours) at the University of Melbourne specialising in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and also trained as a classical singer.

Roslyn's producing credits include Co-Producer on the feature film Peaches starring Hugo Weaving and Jacqui McKenzie and Producer of the telemovie Baby Bath Massacre (Winner ATOM Awards Best Teenage Program). She has produced two documentaries, Portrait: the making of Portrait of a Lady- an intense study about Jane Campion's work with Barbara Hershey, Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich, and Thread of Voice, a documentary about ARF ARF, a group of experimental voice artists. She produced the short films Mr Electric starring Ernie Dingo (AFI Award for Best Short and IOC Best Short Film Melbourne International Film Festival) and Sheep (Winner Best Director St Kilda Film Festival).

Roslyn was Manager of Film Victoria from 1998-2002 responsible for managing investment, script and professional development for Victorian film and television projects. Roslyn was on the assessment panels for script development, screen culture applications, short film fund, international production incentives and documentary production investment. She worked with government on industry policy, was responsible for production investment and managed a $15 million cashflow facility. Previously Roslyn had worked as Acting Executive Producer at the community video organisation Open Channel.

Roslyn has co-written a feature film Batavia. which is in development, was script editor on the feature film Blue Rose and is co-writer on a documentary series The Fireside History of Deadly Diseases which is currently financing.

Currently Roslyn is financing a feature film The Floating World which Palace Films will release in Australia with cast Elena Anaya, Vince Colossimo and Ben Mendelsohn. She is developing a feature film with writer Stuart Page about the Ern Malley poetry hoax called Black Swan and has been funded through Film Victoria to attend the prestigious European script development program Sources 2 in Berlin and Sweden in 2006.

Roslyn is Victorian Chapter Head for the Screen Producers Association of Australia and was previously a board member for Women in Film and Television and Melbourne Fringe.