Beck Cole

Beck Cole is an Australian filmmaker of the Warramungu and Luritja nations. She is known for her work on numerous TV series, including First Australians, Grace Beside Me, Black Comedy and Wentworth, as well as documentaries and short films. She is based in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory.

Early life, education and early career Cole grew up in Adelaide and around the Port Adelaide area.

Cole started working in media as a journalist when she got a cadetship at Imparja Television, when still at school. She gained experience in both writing and presenting stories, and also worked as a news and weather presenter. where she was exposed to a number of Australian documentary filmmakers. ) and Plains Empty (2005 ) premiered at Sundance, and Flat also screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Cole worked as a writer-director on First Australians (2008), the acclaimed documentary television series about the history of Indigenous Australians, along with Rachel Perkins and Louis Nowra.

Cole was voice director for all three seasons of Little J & Big Cuz, and wrote two episodes of the series. She also co-wrote the screenplay for the series along with Paynter, Nayuka Gorrie, David Woodhead, and Donald Imberlong.

Cole directed one of the segments of the anthology film We Are Still Here, which premiered as the opening film of the 2022 Sydney Film Festival.

Other activities In 2020 Cole was co-presenter, with Warwick Thornton, of a five-day development workshop called the Aboriginal Short Film Initiative, held at South Australian Film Corporation's Adelaide Studios.

Recognition and accolades Cole was one of seven filmmakers featured in the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Brisbane in competition for the Golden Zenith Award at the Montréal World Film Festival and Black Comedy: winner, 2015 AACTA Award for Best Direction in a Light Entertainment or Reality Series They have a daughter. The couple shared a personal as well as professional relationship. By 2018 Thornton and Cole had separated.

She is a cousin of filmmaker Danielle MacLean.