{"id":128,"date":"2010-07-02T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmcement.org\/dawestside\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-12-23T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T09:54:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.filmcement.org\/dawestside\/?page_id=128","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daz Chandler is a karaoke enthusiast with great hands who loves hyphenating words. \"\"<\/a>Surprisingly, she is not yet a rock-star or, hand-model.\u00a0 She is however extremely passionate about her\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 inter-disciplinary arts practice, as well as her work as a filmmaker, broadcaster & digital producer.<\/p>\n

After studying film production, Daz started her career in advertising & public relations where she prepared fancy blurb & creative strategy for high-profile, international clients. After many sleepless nights & frankly, not enough of the good bits from ‘Mad Men’, she left the industry to focus on the community & public media sectors, where she worked in print, broadcast & online, & as an artist and workshop facilitator.<\/p>\n

In late 2008, inspired by the democratisation of media & rise of independent journalism,\u00a0 she established ‘Radio Lajee’, an English-language media project for young Palestinian refugees living in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

Daz is also on the board of the Sydney-based Refugee Art Project and her short film, ‘Unstill Lives’ documents RAP’s engagement with Australia’s refugee and asylum seeker community.<\/p>\n

Recently, she\u2019s been spending most of her time directing a feature-length documentary film called, ‘Amand(l)a’, which follows the life of a politically motivated young woman born the year of the so-called Oslo Peace Process, inside the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

Daz\u2019s main interest lies in work that challenges preconceived sociocultural & political notions & ideas, & creates instances of social engagement, or points of connection between unlikely parties.<\/p>\n

Her work has been screened at international film festivals and shown at galleries in Australia, the US, Palestine and Turkey.<\/p>\n

This blog has been set-up primarily as a space for friends and interested strangers to keep in touch with her while she’s\u00a0 away ‘on da west side’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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