Carolyn Corkindale
Filmmaker: Dream, Create, Complete
Hi, I'm Carolyn Corkindale. It's great to see you!
I abandoned my teaching and research career to study at a very practical Adelaide film school. I embarked on making low budget documentaries and original short dramas with local cast and crew, many of whom have become recognised as emerging filmmakers.
My films have screened internationally and here in Australia at both festivals and theatrically.
Most of all I love working with a group of young people on a shared challenge of visual storytelling.
Carolyn Corkindale is a filmmaker based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Carolyn's films
Let it Dance 2025 80.3
Born of a poor family in Paris, Guy Detot overcomes a body weakened by childhood illness, and transforms himself by passion into an international ballet dancer and then into a much valued and emotion-driven wood sculptor, based in Penola, South Australia.
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Writer/director /producer: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography: Maxx Corkindale, Bonnie Paku, Rebecca Duncker
Editor and colorist; Sam Matthews
Sound design: Tom Wroblewski
Music: Adam Ritchie
The Fork in the Road 2022 14.13
The film mostly follows a boy who is escaping within himself. He is caught up in fantasies in the woodland that reflect the trials he faces in the real world. As these occur, there are glimpses of his parallel life in the real world, experiences of the boy who chose not to follow the path less travelled, but to return home to an uncomfortable situation. It is a coming of age fairy story that has some gripping episodes, where an audience will feel pity and fear for the survival of the twin protagonists and ultimately delight as all is resolved.
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Writer, Director, Producer: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography, editor, sound: Rebecca Duncker
Music: Adam Ritchie
Future Harvest 2019 4.38 Two SASA nominations (pastoral then climate change horror)
Orchard or desert, which is real to the old woman armed with a sharp tool looking to harvest?
What is the harvest for an old woman when a juicy orchard transforms into a ripe body farm?
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Writer, Producer, Director: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography and editor: Max Corkindale
Production design: Lauren Murray
Location audio and sound design: Allie T Garland
Make Up/SFX: Luke Manhire
Colourist: Bonnie Paku
Composer: Adam Ritchie
What are We Fighting For? 2023 51.08
How ordinary people stopped a war: resistance to the Vietnam War and Conscription in South Australia.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/878251183
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Writers and Producers: Carolyn Corkindale & Christine Belford
Director: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography: Rebecca Duncker, Nick de Rohan, Bonnie Paku
Editor: David Castle
Music: Adam Ritchie
The Magic of Auchendarroch: 2021 31.11 - Documentary
Auchendarroch House, a 19th Century mansion in the Adelaide Hills, links the lives of two women who, separated by over a hundred years, are consumed with creating a nexus of beauty through the designs of William Morris.
Writers and Producers: Carolyn Corkindale & Christine Belford
Director: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography: Rebecca Duncker, Max Corkindale, Ruth Morris
Editors: Abby Mulvaney & Max Corkindale
Sound Design: Nick Steele
Colourist: Sam Matthews
Composer: Adam Ritchie
The Silent Song: 2020 16.46 4 SASA nominations
In 1970, how does a young protester and talented singer cope with her beloved brother’s Vietnam War conscription and their traditional family’s reaction?
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Writer, Director, Producer: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography: Rebecca Duncker
Production design: Lauren Murray
Editors: Kadison Noack & Max Corkindale
Location audio: Allie T Garland
Sound design: Nick Steele
Future Harvest 2019 4.38 Two SASA nominations (pastoral then climate change horror)
Playing with Fire 2018 8.10mins.
A deserted, ruined cottage and rural property were the scenes of bullying and a murderous arson attack 30 years ago and now they are visited by a family - the perpetrator and his children – only to encounter mesmerising and lifelike spirits from whom there is no escape until revenge is complete.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/254471977
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Writer, Director, Producer: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography: Rebecca Duncker
Music Adam Ritchie
The Blue Pony 2017 18.53 mins
The film explores a series of dramatic events brought about by a bullying father who enslaves his family according to his interpretation of his religion’s beliefs. The consequences of this caging of his wife and two teenage daughters leads to tragedy followed by resistance of the survivors. This is a story about redemption and hope.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/254290046
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Writer, Director, Producer: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography: Rebecca Duncker
Music Adam Ritchie
Wishing You Well - Director’s Cut ( Carolyn Corkindale: producer/writer/director) 2017
A young orphaned boy is placed in the care of his elderly Grandfather who lives on a rural property. He is shown an old well and makes a poignant wish, contained in a bottle, which he drops into the water.
To his surprise, he receives a reassuring answer – a drawing with a message. The bottle dialogue continues and the boy is much cheered and reconciled to being with his grandfather.
Years pass and a young adult, dressed in black arrives at the locked gate of the now disheveled property. He discovers the well and a bottle containing a message pops up to the surface. The contents delight him and he replies.
The Best Medicine 2016 11.57 (first film post MAPS)
This is a redemptive story about a recently bereaved hospital clown who helps a sick child and his parents and finds hope again through the use of humour – the best medicine…
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/203394395/bea1f54609
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Writer, Director, Producer: Carolyn Corkindale
Cinematography: Rebecca Duncker
Sound design Kadison Noack
Music Adam Ritchie
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Dream, Create, Complete
I love dreaming up stories, finding inspiring locations and then creating and finishing an uplifting film which audiences enjoy.
Carolyn Corkindale
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