Families Of Fortune (2009)

This film retraces the stories and lives of Chinese families in the Tweed region of Northern New South Wales. Featured are Wing Yuen Lee, Chinese Herbalist, and his daughter Noelene Johnston, Tong's store in Murwillumbah, Le Ping Wong, from the White Olive Restaurant, and other Chinese families in the Tweed. This film was produced for Tweed Shire Council and the Migration Heritage Centre in 2009. 

For more information, please go to:
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/stories/families-of-fortune-video/

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/projects/tracking-the-dragon-chinese-australian-heritage-tweed-river/index.html

The Village Timber Art Trail (2007)

This film was commissioned by Tweed Shire Council, as a result of the Tweed Shire City of the Arts Program (2003-2005). It follows the artists who have created public art structures and art works for the villages of Burringbar, Chillingham, Stokers Siding, Uki, and Mooball, in the Tweed Valley region of Northern New South Wales. You can read more about the project here: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/128693/20110815-1326/policy3.pdf

Mountain & Minutiae

My first exploration of the Tweed Valley when I settled there in 2002... Misty mornings at the foot of the beautiful Wollumbin, and the minutiae that live in its shadow...