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In the final season of Game of Thrones many viewers found the Battle for Winterfell episode rather dark. Dr Hart was interviewed by ABC News to answer why.

Phoebe was proud to be a part of the Darlington Statement, wherein 20 intersex organisations and individuals met to formulate an Australia / New Zealand consensus statement on the human rights of people with variations of sex characteristics in Darlington, Sydney on Thursday 2 - Frday 3 March 2017. You can access the report here. Individuals and organisations are encouraged to affirm the statement as allies.

For Intersex Awareness Day 2021, Phoebe wrote about her experience of intersex community, friendships and activism for Archer Magazine.

My short documentary Lost for Words was presented to the 2012 cohort of the Aphasia LIFT at the University of Queensland School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and received an outstanding great response. The film focuses on a program to rehabilitate people who may have suffered a stroke and lost one our most human traits: the ability to communicate.

Filmed in front of a live studio audience Save Your Life Tonight is a unique new series that takes the top 10 health issues facing Australians today and explores them in an interactive and entertaining way... hartflicker served as an associate producer on this Wildbear Entertainment production for ABCTV - and the series which aired first on Sunday, 14th of December 2014 at 6.30pm and repeated several times since (including Thursday 7 March 2019).

Handbag: The Untold Story of the Fag Hag is a documentary about the iconic friendship between gay men and straight women, told though three generations of "fag hags". Handbag: The Untold Story of the Fag Hag raised over AU$50,000 in much needed production funds via the film's loyal community and Documentary Australia Foundation, Australian Cultural Foundation, Pozible and Kickstarter! You can see the final result on OUTtv in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, USA and Canada and Australians, see it on SBS On Demand!

In collaboration with Pip Kelly, hartflicker crafted a number of video installations for Queensland Museum's "What Do You Collect?" exhibition and Lost Creatures exhibition. See some excerpts online - Graham from the Carina Men's Shed and Tigerlil, who collects religious iconography.

hartflicker ran a successful Pozible campaign with Pip Kelly to finish a heartwarming documentary film they produced Thomas Banks' Quest for Love assisted by the Creative Partnerships Australia MATCH funding program which provides up to $10,000 of in-principal matched funds.

Thomas Banks' Quest for Love has gone on to win a slew of awards including best short film at Mardi Gras Film Festival and the audience pick at Melbourne Queer Film Festival, which is the largest queer film festival in the Southern Hemisphere. The documentary screened in competition Official Selection at Frameline 43 in San Francisco, which boasts annual attendance ranging from 60,000 to 80,000, making it the largest LGBT+ film exhibition event in the world and was a finalist for the Iris Prize, the world's largest short film prize. And you can now watch the film on Stan!

Phoebe has twice presented a conversation around filmmaking and intersex as Robson Fellow at Ormond College, University of Melbourne.

Phoebe hosted 'The reading hour: Love, lust and loathing' in 2012. After hours at State Library of Queensland gets risqué! Warm up this winter with a night of intimate readings from some of Brisbane's most amorous authors as they share their tales of love gained, love lost and those you love to hate. A National Year of Reading event. Saturday 25 August 2012, 7.30pm - 9:00pm, The Red Box, Level 2, State Library of Queensland.

Orchids: My Intersex Adventure took out Best Documentary (General) at the 2010 ATOM Awards and won best film by popular vote at the 2010 Brisbane International Film Festival. Phoebe Hart was awarded Best Direction in a Documentary (Stand Alone) at the 2012 Australian Directors Guild Awards for the film Orchids: My Intersex Adventure, which screened on ABC1 10pm Sunday 29 January 2012.

Orchids: My Intersex Adventure received a AACTA Award nomination forBest Documentary Under One Hour. The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award (previously the Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards), is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the IF Awards 2011.

Phoebe was invited to present Orchids: My Intersex Adventure in person at Adelaide Film Festival, Mardi Gras Film Festival, Mix Copenhagen, Hamburg Queer Film Festival, Pornfilmfestival Berlin, BFI London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (now known as BFI Flare), Citizen Jane Film Festival and Outfest Los Angeles. It's been broadcast on ABC1, TVE Spain, Swedish Educational, Schweizer Fernsehen, ARTE Germany/France, Showtime USA, France Télévisions, DBS Israel and ArtMedia (Eastern Europe). It's distributed by First Hand Films and Women Make Movies. Follow the the film's progress by liking the Orchids Facebook page.

Phoebe Hart participated in a discussion after a screening of the legedary sci-fi classic Bladerunner which showed as part of the UR{BNE} 2012 Festival about urban design, architecture, public spaces and collaborative design. Bladerunner is the final film in the series and was chosen by audience vote. Phoebe explored how imagined architecture imitates real life and vise versa. Does imagined architecture shape real architecture?

Phoebe Hart won a Highly Commended award in the Shoot the Architect Portrait Prize at theRoyal Australian Institute of Architects for her photograph "After Hours Architecture". In 2011, hartflicker helped out Queensland's flood survivors, producing a training video for architects on assessing homes affected by inundation and natural disaster in partnership with Emergency Architects Australia, Royal Australian Institute of Architects and Archicentre. 

hartflicker's Phoebe Hart spoke about her career and life experiences at TEDx Youth Brisbane on Sunday 20 November 2011 at The Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland. The whole presentation was captured and can be viewed on YouTube.

Congratulations to BIFFDOCS 2011 winner Arirang. Submitted by one of South Korea’s most celebrated filmmakers, Kim Ki-duk, Arirang is a disturbing autobiographical statement that has been described as the absolute and final expression of a filmmaker. The 2011 judges for BIFFDOCS were Richard Moore, Head of Screen Culture and BIFF director; Mark Lewis, the celebrated documentary filmmaker, producer; David Tiley, documentary filmmaker and editor of online screen journal Screen Hub, and hartflicker's own Phoebe Hart, winner of the 2010 BIFF Showtime audience award for her production Orchids: My Intersex Adventure.

The Australian Directors Guild and Griffith Film School presented Directing the First Person Documentary, a conversation with directors Phoebe (Orchids: My Intersex Adventure), Peter Hegedus (My America) and Cathy Henkel (The Man Who Stole my Mother's Face) followed by a Q&A, 30th August 2011.

hartflicker edited a film on the making of Swamp Cartography, a collaboration with porcelain designer Shannon Garson and jeweller Rebecca Ward, and went classical producing video clips for Exaudi Australis and the Australian Vocal Arts Ensemble. And congratulations to the Queensland Music Festival for breaking the world record for largest orchestra in 2013 - 7223 musicians in total! hartflicker was there covering the QMF with Vizible Entertainment.

hartflicker produced and directed a range of English language education videos for German-based client Spotlight Verlag (Zeit Sprachen) in early 2010.

A short documentary, The Making of Sons of Matthew (Director Debra Beattie, Producers Beattie and Wendy Rogers & Editor hartflicker's Phoebe Hart) will be screened at the Gallery of Modern Art as part of the 2009 Brisbane International Film Festival on Sunday 2 August at 15:00. The film focuses on the pioneering film directed by Australian film icon Charles Chauvel, and it is based upon the struggles of the O'Reilly family who settled the wild, mountainous rainforest of Mt Lamington, Queensland more than a century ago.

hartflicker presented a retrospective of work at VOL06 of Pecha Kucha Night, Wednesday 25th June 2008 at the Turbine Hall, Brisbane Powerhouse.

Sister of hartflicker and Sydney's best-known stylist to the stars is Sophie Hart. I particularly like the Fashion With A Conscience campaging that Sophie did for the Salvos.

hartflicker now tweets regularly on X - please follow me!

Phoebe Hart was on the winning team of a comedy debate panel entitled "Future Sex" on 19 May 2011 at The Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland as part of the Ideas Festival, and previously at the same festival was among a panel of experts at the to to examine the question 'Beyond size 0 – is anything real?' on Saturday, 28 March 2009, 6:00 - 7:00pm, State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 2, South Bank Cultural Centre, Brisbane. In 2010/11, hartflicker shot for ABC's Big Ideas... a screen space for intellectual, political, cultural and economic debate in Australia.

Ever had a range of design furnishings named after you? hartflicker's Phoebe Hart has. Introducing the Phoebe lamp by Peter Harding and Åsa Jonasson. The perfect gift, whatever the occasion!

Phoebe Hart, proprietor and agent provocateur of hartflicker, was awarded the Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship, the funds from which greatly helped to her to complete a doctoral thesis and creative practice project at the Queensland University of Technology, where Phoebe continues to teach. Clare Burton was a extremely interesting woman, who made a major contribution to equity in Australia.

Yippee! Nudge's Tale took out top gong in the Tertiary category at the 2008 Riverfestival Liquid Lens digital media competition. Nudge's Tale is an animated adaptation of Bridgette McKelvey's childrens book of the same name, which was inspired by true story of Nudge, a baby dolphin whose life was imperiled when his tail became caught in a fishing net. Bridgette used photography and childrens literature as a means to educate children about environmental issues. Bridgette worked with Phoebe Hart to produce the film adaptation, and the star of the film is Bridgette's daughter, Jemma, who narrates Nudge's story. Congratulations to Bridgette, Jemma, Craig and Nudge!

Traje was selected for the Tri-Continental Film Festival to tour India - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata - from January 21 to February 5, 2006. Initiated in Latin America in 2002, South Africa in 2003 and India in 2004, the festival was an annual platform for narrative, documentary, feature and short length films in the 3 continents. Traje was also selected to participate in the Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival, November 18 - 22, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA and screened at the European Culture Festival, which was part of the European Social Forum in Malmö, Sweden at 4:00pm on Friday 19 September, 2008 at the Cinema Möllan (Leonard / ex-flower shop), Claesgatan 8.

hartflicker coordinated the Australian leg of the Other Worlds are Breathing 2005 film festival. The festival ran in Brisbane, where it was screened in 10 sessions over three days 2 - 4 March 2006 at The Loft, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology. Phoebe has had the pleasure of working with QUT Creative Industries for many years, teaching film, screen and new media with a bunch of beautiful people and talented up-and-comers. Phoebe has also contributed to QUT's festival of technology and creativity CreateX.

Melvin's Disablity - the extraordinary and hillarious mockumentary of a man living with 'pipes for arms' - made its small screen debut on MRCTV, Channel 31 Adelaide at 9:30pm on Sunday 10 September 2005. Melvin's Disability was also accepted into the Fake Film Festival at the Adelaide International Film Festival, and was screened on Saturday 26th of February 2005 at 18:45, where it won a Faker Award.

KIDS TV!!! Woohoo! From May until July 2005, and August to September 2006, hartflicker director Phoebe Hart acted as field producer on preschool-age television program New MacDonald's Farm. The program is produced by Pacific and Beyond (now Beyond International) for the Nine Network. hartflicker also regularly coordinated a number of local content productions for Turner Entertainment Asia's Cartoon Network. She also wrote on Series 1 and 2 of The Workers, designed for an early-childhood audience.

As part of the 2005 Brisbane International Film Festival (27 July - 8 August 2005), hartflicker designed and coordinated two workshops for Cine Sparks - the Australian Film Festival for Young People. The workshops examined the angles various media organisations take in presenting issues to broadcast audiences as news and documentaries. Phoebe also moderated a panel at the Brisbane International Film Festival "Industry Day" at the QUT Kelvin Grove campus on Friday 22 October 2022 on the topic of Documentary film and storytelling.

How do you sing when you can't hear? The answer is that you use sign language. hartflicker volunteered her services to the deaf community at the Woodford Folk Festival working with the AUSLAN Dancing Hands troupe 27/12/05 - 2/1/06. The result was a wonderful, heartwarming video. Phoebe also made a short documentary Shangri-la, which is the story of two masseuses working at the festival, whcih appeared as part of the finalist program of the Spirit of Woodford Competition in Queensland, Australia.

The Full Kombi played on ABC nationally as a half hour in 2000 and as an 'uncensored' full hour in 2001. It was one of Phoebe's first Producer credits (as well as one of her first small screen debuts). The Full Kombi follows the exploits of five hardy travellers cruising around Tasmania in a yellow VW kombi van called "Jean". This great website was developed as part of the broadcast (go the Q&A to find out what really happens between Frank and Phoebe!).

hartflicker recently acted as the Australian production unit on a major American feature documentary entitled It/ll Be Better Tomorrow. The documentary is by Michael W. Dean and is about the on the life and death of Hubert Selby Jnr, prolific author of drug epics such as Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn. hartflicker shot an interview with Aussie author Luke Davies, who penned the heroin-biography Candy. The world premiere of It/ll Be Better Tomorrow was at the 31st Deauville American Film Festival in France on Saturday 3 September 2005. It/ll Be Better Tomorrow also appeared the 10th Revelation Film Fest in Perth, Australia on Saturday July 21, 2007.

Ever experienced the ButtMachine? hartflicker had a hand editing this video clip by That1Guy (a Woodford Folk Festival favourite) produced by Browndog. ButtMachine also closes out Ep 9 of Series 3 of the hit Showtime US series Weeds!

Dumpster Divers and Traje appeared in the Other Worlds are Breathing Film Festival (organised by the Magic Lantern Foundation) in both 2004 and 2005 World Social Forums respectively. Further information about the World Social Forum 2005 in Brazil, where Traje screened, can be found here. And don't forget hartflicker is hosting the Australian leg of the travelling package of the Other Worlds are Breathing film festival!

Polymptics is a series of short satires produced by hartflicker (mostly notably by Bonnie Hart AKA 'Loln' who is now a noted intersex rights activist) during the lead up to the Australian Federal Election in 2004 and was featured on the Time To Go John anti-Howard website.

WildFury Productions' (now Wildbear Entertainment) Veronica Fury co-produced The Embalmer with Phoebe and Bonnie Hart which screened nationally on ABCTV's George Negus Tonight on 17/12/04. Phoebe field directed on Veronica's 2011 ABC3 kids factual series Dancing Downunder.

Trevor Hart Quartet did the music on a pre-hartflicker short film called A.M., which was made by the Harts sisters and friends many a moon ago now. Trevor also makes a very fine cheese at the Cedar Street Cheeserie.

Our Place was produced with the assistance of a scholarship administered by the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre which conducts valuable research into Indigenous culture, environments and architecture both in Australia and abroad.

Team Plastique were some weird and wonderful mates of hartflicker. Now no more, TP were an art-band from Brisbane relocated to Berlin whose crazy antics often include cling wrap, whipped cream and lots and lots of gaffer tape. Check out what I mean here. They were also the subject of a mini-doc that hartflicker produced for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's now defunct youth channel Fly TV.

Big thanks go out to Gavin Sade for his amazing help in constructing this website. Gavin is an interactive design guru, teacher and researcher. He co-runs an interactive design company called kuuki. Some of their interactive videos were edited and composited by hartflicker, including Disco Puppy: Stayin' Alive, which showed initially at the Ipswich Art Gallery from 22 November 2008 to 1 February 2009 and then toured nationally.

Check out Phoebe Hart's book review of the title Intersex by Catherine Harper and Women's Experimental Cinema edited by Robin Blaetz for M/C Journal.

hartflicker designed a website FOC for the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia Inc, and since helped out with the volunteer led organisation's updated website and rebrand Intersex Peer Support Australia.

What's it like growing up queer in Austalia? Phoebe Hart contributed a chapter to the anthology Growing Up Queer in Australia edited by Benjamin Law and published by Black Inc. Phoebe spoke at Brisbane Writers Festival about the book and her experiences along with Ben and other conributors. The chapter was relicensed for Growing Up in Australia, Black Inc.’s definitive anthology in the ‘Growing Up’ series featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Growing Up in Australia captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways.

It was a sad day when Ten axed the long-running kids TV show, Totally Wild. I loved cutting my teeth as a young writer and producer on the series working alongside some top folks!

Phoebe was a very pleased to contribute a chapter to Documentary and Disability, edited by Catalin Brylla and Helen Hughes. A great review for the book by Alison Wilde can be found here. Phoebe also contributed two chapters for the book Directing for the Screen edited by Anna Weinstein.

Phoebe has also proudly judged competitive categories for the West End Film Festival.

We don't know who wrote it (and it's a bit outdated), but Phoebe has her own page on Wikipedia.

And finally, meet the official mascot of hartflicker - Chacho (RIP):

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