ABOUT

 

Marleena Forward is an Australian documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Melbourne, Australia. In 2015 she completed a Masters of Film and Television (Documentary) at the Victorian College of the Arts.

 

Marleena has shot documentary content for media organisations such as the ABC, SBS, Vice and various production companies. In Jan-Feb 2025 she began shooting an untitled feature documentary in Argentina and Antarctica, (dir. Shannon Owen) with the project due to continue in Nov-Dec 2025 in Tanzania. She has also worked with ABC Pacific, creating documentary video series in Fiji (2019) and Samoa (2022). Corporate clients include cultural institutions such as ACMI, State Library Victoria and ANAM.

 

Marleena’s two self-directed shorts won awards from the Human Rights and Arts Film Festival (Australia), the Vincent de Paul Just Art awards, and the Golden Lens Awards (China). She has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

 

Marleena also holds a diploma in Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Her writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, travel guides, blogs and apps, and she has edited a range of both fiction and non-fiction books.

 

If you are interested in working with Marleena, please get in touch via the Contact page.

 

 

 

 

I acknowledge this country’s traditional owners and original storytellers, the First Nations People all across Australia, on whose lands I live and work. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.