Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and

James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never

know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear

the audio.

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shot such movies as Australia, Tracks, Jane Garagun, Hidden Figures and Mulan. We're

pleased to welcome Mandy Walker. Mandy, thank you for doing this. Yes, thanks Mandy and

welcome.

Hi, Roger. Hi, James. We'd like to start with a question of how did you get to where you

are today. Was this something that you always knew that you wanted to do from age five or did you

take another path or was this the path for you? Well, I'd always been interested in art from a

really young age. My mother used to take me to galleries from when I was about two years old

and she was an amateur painter and then in my teenage years I loved cinema. We would go to

the cinema all the time in my family. My parents would also take me to a small art house cinema

and would watch European films as well and foreign language movies. So I thought when I was about

14, 15 hours, got into still photography and I had a little dark room at home and then I thought

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