Martin Potter

The Goal - good work with good people.

The Reality - Works with communities to make stories central to their lives and relevant to the world.

15 years experience as an inter-disciplinary media practitioner and company director with a PhD in participatory media from Flinders University.

Currently - Director of Big Stories Co. Transmedia Director and Producer with UN agencies, international NGOs and broadcasters. Production experience across Asia with projects current in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, West Papua and Australia. Creative Director of the SxSW Award winning Big Stories, Small Towns. Founder of the White Building media and arts program in Cambodia.

Formerly - Academic and researcher for University of Queensland. Producer of Science Stories for Monash University. Invisible hand of TEDCity2.0 prize-winner Stereopublic: crowdsourcing the quiet, a mobile phone and web-based mapping of quiet spaces in cities.

In 2013 - finalist for the inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Award, Japan Prize and Communication for Social Change Award. In 2012 - Asialink Dunlop Fellow, Ian Potter Cultural Trust Fellow and Britdoc Puma Catalyst Award.

Distant History - Founded Plexus Films and grew a thriving commercial and documentary production company. Head of Production, Development and Program at the Media Resource Centre - tripled annual turnover in 3 years and transformed the South Australian screen industry. Produced multi-award winning Youth Today TV series in Cambodia. Started working across South East Asia, increasingly in non-broadcast settings using new technologies and old storytelling to support poor communities to develop on their own terms.

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