Based in southern lutruwita/Tasmania, Ursula is a cinematographer and camera operator with extensive experience delivering work across film, television, music video, and art installations.
Ursula brings an artistic sensibility to every project, and has a passion for experimental film techniques including hand processing in her home darkroom setup.
In 2025, Ursula was awarded the Drew Llewellyn Scholarship by the Australian Cinematographers Society and was Film Artist in Residence at UTAS and Constance ARI’s Holding Space program.
Current
Kirsha Kaechele Logan Mucha dir. Documentary Feature, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The New New Wave Jolyon Hoff dir. Documentary Feature DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Light Sound Art Film
Select recent projects
Old Fella Alex Laird dir., Narrative Short film, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
We Don’t Have Long Katie Robertson dir., Narrative Short film, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Egg Freezing in America Fiora Cutler dir., Narrative/Musical Short/Proof of Concept, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Crash Body Paula Garcia, Dark Mofo 2025, Versus Sydney, Directors Jason Sukadana and Tanya Babic, CAMERA OPERATOR
The Survivors Netflix series, Tony Ayres Productions, BRONTE ART PROJECT Dir. Katie Robertson, CINEMATOGRAPHY and analogue film processing
The Survivors Netflix series, B-CAM OPERATOR pick up shoot Aug 2024
Moonbird SBS Digital Originals, Drama, Sheoak/Kutikina Productions, Dir. Nathan Maynard, A-CAM OPERATOR
Moonbird SBS Digital Originals, Drama, 2nd Unit DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Eat the Invaders ABC documentary, CAMERA OPERATOR , Closer Productions, Dir. Matthew Bate
A Green Affair fantasy horror short film, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Queen Ripsnort Productions, Dir. Rebecca Thomson
Relâche Second Echo Ensemble Production, CINEMATOGRAPHY and analogue film processing, created for The Odeon Theatre (show), screened at ACMI.
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday Documentary Feature, Light Sound Art Film, Dir. Jolyon Hoff, CINEMATOGRAPHY released 2024 at MIFF/SFF
Other
ACS Drew Llewellyn Scholarship recipient 2025 Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) CamerImage, Torun Poland November 2025
Constance Holding Space Artist in Residence at UTAS Hobart June-August 2025
Adelaide Film Festival Expand Lab 2024 participant and finalist for the group commission with collaborators Logan Mucha, Jen Valender, Rosina Possingham and Eleanor Sccichiatano, project working title: The Black Record
Associations
ACS Australian Cinematographers Society (TAS branch committee member)
AFW Artist Film Workshop (member)
WIFT Tasmania Women in Film and Television (Tasmanian Representative and AUS board member)
Screen Tasmania Profile
Worked with: Katie Robertson/Bobblehead Productions, Fiora Cutler, Logan Mucha, Alison Stanton-Cooke/Notorious Films, Jason Sukadana & Tanya Babic/Versus, Sari Braithwaite/La Trobe Universisty, Michael Beach/Poison City Records, Carla Zimbler/Polaris, Kirsha Kaechele Projects, Art Processors Melbourne, Adelaide Film Festival’s EXPAND LAB, Second Echo Ensemble, Closer Productions, Netflix/Tony Ayers Productions, Constance ARI, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, SBS Digital Originals, Bus Stop Films, Roar Film, Beyond International, Matthewswood Productions, Rebecca Metcalf/Emma Holland Special, Light Sound Art Film, Sheoak Films, Kutikina Productions, RAGE, Queen Ripsnort Productions, ABC Artworks, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Material Institute, Lark whiskey, Mona Foma, Salamanca Arts Centre, Broken Yellow Productions, The Block TV, Tin Camp Studios, Frying Pan Studio @MONA, Clarence Jazz Festival, Grumpy Sailor, Mona Foma , Conti Bros Films, Tasmanian Women’s Art Prize, Pedestrian TV, Under the Microscope Theatre Company, Amazon Prime, ABC, Cathy Diver, Claire Anne Taylor, SABIO, Workplace Romance, Risa Muramatsu Ray, FFLORA, Tomoko Momiyama, Sumner, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, Mike Noga, Christopher Coleman, Quivers, Parker, Fulton Street, Coda Chroma, Nick Batterham, Jethro Pickett, Kim Salmon, Ern Malley, The Stitch, Yyan&Emily, Costume, Boil Up, Sissysocks, Montz Matsumoto, Julian Banks Trio, Bianca Blackhall, Tony Fitz, Prester John, Tomorrows, Adrian Whitehead, The Bell Streets, Harry Holcombe-James, Artist Film Workshop, Music Tasmania, Salon/Janelle Mendham, Five Things To Say, Bing Santospirito
