Documentary think-tanks, lizard love, the sparkle of water.
Selected projects
Citt Williams
Citt Williams is an Australian documentary producer, climate scientist and academic working furiously at the intersection of documentary film, intimate and traditional knowledge practices and climatic change.
Making documentaries for over 25 years, Citt stands by her understanding that high-calibre story-telling builds meaningful connections and diplomacy with wider worlds.
Commercially, Citt's produced documentaries have been exhibited widely including at film festivals Cannes, Mumbai, Melbourne and by broadcasters National Geographic, Discovery, CBC, Al Jazeera, ABCTV and SBS. She has worked for Lonely Planet, Alliance Atlantis, Tribune Entertainment, MTV, Warner Brothers, CAAMA, Australia’s Seven & Nine Networks as well as the United Nations and various inter-government bodies. Citt has created independent documentaries on location in India, Nepal, Russian Siberia, Tajikistan, Japan, Thailand, China, France, Indonesian Borneo, rural and remote Australia and from a bicycle seat in Outer Mongolia.
Exhibition-projects include Indigenous Voices on Climate Change Film Festival (a UNFCCC COP15 side event @ National Museum of Copenhagen, 2009), The Weight of the Soil (a iDARE exhibit @ Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2016), and at the Asia Pacific Triennial - APT5 CINEMA, 2007 as producer of Beck Cole’s documentaries Wirriya: Small boy and The Lore of Love. Together with filmmaker Sarah-Jane Woulahan she initiated the Australian collective media action, Ministry of Truth (2007-2008).
Citt’s collaborative publications include the UNU’s ‘Traditional Knowledge & Climate Science Toolkit’, ‘Pamir women and the melting glaciers of Tajikistan: A visual knowledge exchange for improved environmental governance’, ‘Arctic peoples and the emerging digital environmental governance regime’, and ‘This question of the Other presence: Theorizing online representation and the voice of the digital subaltern’.
In 2021, Williams completed her PhD research, Intimate Sensing in Climate Research at RMIT University’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre in Melbourne. She holds a Master of Internet Social Science from the University of Oxford, a Master of Science (Climate Change) from the University of East Anglia, a Master of Arts (Documentary) from the Australian Film Television and Radio School and a Bachelor of Business (Film and TV Production) from the Queensland University of Technology.
Alongside work projects, Citt continues to passionately share her skills and lecture regularly at universities in Australia, Japan and with remote Indigenous communities in Australia and internationally. When not working, Citt is often travelling to visit remote friends or taking long walks in the Australian bush.
View some of Citt’s film work here.