Based in southern lutruwita/Tasmania, Ursula is a cinematographer and moving image artist 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, attending CamerImage in Poland. Ursula was the Winter 2025 Film Artist in Residence at the University of Tasmania/Constance ARI’s Holding Space program.
Upcoming
16mm Workshop Bruny Island Film Festival 2026 October 24th/25th Tix via BIFF/ACS TAS
Select recent projects
Angus&Julia Stone Music Video for KARAOKE BAR Julia Stone dir., DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Porcelain Ivy Elli Illades dir., Narrative Short film, Bus Stop Films, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Eliana Glass Live at Phoenix Charlotte Mungomery dir., Music Film, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY and FILM PROCESSING
It All Flows Andy Hutson artist, Video Installation for Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery Hobart Current 2025-26, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The Survivors Netflix series, Tony Ayres Productions, BRONTE ART PROJECT Dir. Katie Robertson, CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Survivors Netflix series, pick up shoot Aug 2024, CAMERA OPERATOR
Moonbird SBS Digital Originals, Drama, Sheoak/Kutikina Productions, Dir. Nathan Maynard, CAMERA OPERATOR
Moonbird SBS Digital Originals, Drama, 2nd Unit DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Eat the Invaders ABC documentary, Closer Productions, Dir. Matthew Bate, CAMERA OPERATOR
A Green Affair fantasy horror short film, Queen Ripsnort Productions, Dir. Rebecca Thomson, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Relâche 18minute experimental film, Second Echo Ensemble Production, dir. Kelly Drummond Cawthorn, CINEMATOGRAPHY and FILM PROCESSING
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday Documentary Feature, Light Sound Art Film, Dir. Jolyon Hoff, CINEMATOGRAPHY
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)
Worked with: Charlotte Mungomery, Alexander Orlando Smith, Phoenix Sydney, State Library Hobart, Alex Laird, 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
