Selina Miles

Selina Miles (born 1987) is an Australian documentary film director from Brisbane. She began shooting street art, music videos, and advertising before moving into feature film documentary making.

Career Miles made Myspace profiles for musicians after leaving university She is self taught. She has worked in brand promotion, and music videos including for Hilltop Hoods, one being nominated for 2012 Australian Music Video of the Year at the J Awards. She is represented by Art Bridge in Paris, Bindery in New York, MindsEye in London, and Scoundrel in Sydney. The film was a sequel to Infinite, also made with Sofles in 2013. Miles said in 2016 that Nike used her work in Limitless without permission in their "Ousadia Alegria" campaign after an unsuccessful pitch, also aping the work of Rob Whitworth. A BBC Formula 1 video also featured a scene similar to one in Limitless. Miles had been making corporate mining videos, but stopped submitting work when making Limitless and began working in advertising. and worked again with Sofles on a video for the White Night festival in Melbourne. She then directed the street art series The Wanderers for ABC iview. One episode featured Guido van Helten's work on train wagons.

Her first feature-length documentary was Martha: A Picture Story, which won awards. Miles herself shot street art and graffiti, and decided to make a film about Cooper, who she first worked with at the ONO'U street art festival in Tahiti in 2014, after speaking to Brooklyn Street Art in 2016. She spent over 19 months working on the film, accessing Cooper's decades of archival footage and photography Miles sought legal advice about filming due to some of the artists conducting illegal activity and protected some identities. and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival, before a US release in March 2021. Moveable Fest said "The soulfulness of Cooper’s photos extends to Miles’ profile of her" and praised the film's structure. Nell Minow, writing for RogerEbert.com, said "director Selina Miles matches the energy of her subject and of her subject's subject—street art like graffiti and hip hop—with exceptionally dynamic cinematic technique."

In 2020 she released Harley & Katya, a figure skating feature documentary which it won. It was nominated for the 56th AWGIE Awards.

Miles' documentary Silenced, produced by Stranger Than Fiction, is about lawyer Jennifer Robinson and her defence of women who alleged abuse as part of the #MeToo movement, including Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins, and Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, against defamation cases. Its premiere was at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in January. Following that screening, the filmmakers received a legal letter from Higgins' former manager Linda Reynolds warning of action if she was defamed. It opened the 73rd Sydney Film Festival at the State Theatre in June 2026, its Australian premiere, where it received a standing ovation. CinemaFemme said "'Silenced' attempts to examine as many threads as possible while maintaining a clear throughline with Robinson’s experience. ... At times 'Silenced' is attempting to do so much with its runtime that all of these threads become overwhelming." ScreenHub called it "bracing" and "magnificently hopeful". Ms. said "While Robinson’s expertise guides much of the narrative framing of the documentary, Miles still reserves vital space to foreground other important cases, as well as advocates of freedom of speech and freedom of the press from around the world." Elizabeth Weitzman reviewing for TheWrap said "Miles shoots [Robinson] in such a glamorous way ... that it inadvertently does this passionate and accomplished professional a disservice", with the film wanting a "sharper center and a tighter edit". POV Magazine and ScreenRant agreed, the former saying "tighter focus might benefit the stories at the documentary’s core" and the latter "Selina Miles' film is too pulled between several directions, overwhelmed by all that it most wants to say", adding that "Silenced works as a solid primer in helping us understand the gaps of the #MeToo movement". The Hollywood Reporter said it "acts as a post-script to the MeToo movement". Out said "On one hand, Silenced is viscerally depressing ... On the other hand, the film is also deeply inspiring" and noted review bombing after the Sundance premiere.

In 2026 she released Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz, a documentary about Australian bodybuilding influencer Zyzz. She recreated his childhood bedroom for the film. Guardian Australia said "Poster Boy might act as a cautionary tale for a new generation". Miles "was determined not to skate over Zyzz’s at times boorish braggadocio".

Personal life Miles grew up in Brisbane, She has frequently travelled for work, and in 2020 was based in Sydney. She adopted a plant-based diet in 2020 for environmental reasons.