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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Lucinda Garbutt-Young

'I've made enough of my life': Hunter filmmaker on home and identity

Joanna Callaghan explores the connection of Australian country, migration to the United Kingdom and colonial history in her 2020 film, 'Record'. Picture supplied

When Joanna Callaghan was pondering a move back to Australia after more than two decades in England, she did what any film lecturer would do; she made a movie about it.

The Sussex-based professor was born in Newcastle and raised in Singleton but has spent most of her life practising overseas. In her 2020 film, 'Records', she lays her life bare, concluding home is the people you live with.

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