Britt Arthur is an award winning Producer / Director, with twenty years experience in the documentary and non-fiction screen sector.
As an independent documentary filmmaker, her interest in compelling characters and distinctive stories has seen her write / direct and / or produce several critically acclaimed independent films. These include My Uncle Bluey (IDFA 2009, ADG Best Short), Life Architecturally (FIFA Montreal, NY ADFF 2012), SMUT HOUNDS (BFI / MIFF 2014), Paper Trails (ADG Best Doc Standalone, 2018) and Not in Front of the Kids (‘Best Short Documentary’ WA Screen Awards & ‘Finalist Best Short Documentary' Inside Film Awards, 2003).
In the factual sector, she cut her teeth in-house at ABC-TV’s Natural History and Specialist Factual Units before working on several landmark factual series including Who Do You Think You Are? (SBS), The Life Series (ABC), The Force (Seven) and Grand Designs (Foxtel).
Whether she is crafting a story about celebrities, buildings or the sex lives of the elderly - there is an empathy, candour and irreverence that illuminate her work. Not in Front of the Kids was described by Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive as being “compassionate and frank” and as “such a delicate portrayal, rarely seen in either Australian documentary or film”. Her television debut Give Me a Break was reviewed by The Age as being “televisual gold” and “as funny as a Christopher Guest mockumentary”. While My Uncle Bluey, which won several accolades including an Australian Directors Guild Award, was lauded for being “outstanding”, “deeply affecting” and for having a “keen understanding of how to order the messy events of real life into a beguiling narrative” (METRO Magazine, 2010).
Alongside her production work Britt has held roles as CEO / Director of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), features programmer for the Human Rights & Arts Film Festival and Producer of Tim Minchin’s breakout Melbourne International Comedy Festival stage show ‘Dark Side’. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a former board member of the AIDC. In 2016, Britt was an inaugural recipient of a Film Victoria-Natalie Miller Fellowship for Women in Leadership.