Mitzi Goldman has worked in the film industry for 20 years. In 1987 she wrote and directed her first one-hour documentary SNAKES AND LADDERS.Following this Mitzi worked at SBS TV, producing and directing documentaries for the Australian Mosaic series, notably THINGS I CALL MINE, & MANY HOMES, MANY NAMES. In 1989 she moved to New York where she worked; editing, writing, researching and teaching.

She returned to Australia, teaching film and television production at Murdoch University from 1992 ? 1995. In 1996 she produced and directed the documentary film HATRED, dealing with race, ethnic hatred, nationalism and xenophobia. Nominated for best documentary and best editing in Australia(AFI Awards) and winning the ATOM award for Best Social Issues Documentary in 1997.

Mitzi is currently completing a PHD with the Centre for Cultural Research, UWS, on the topic of hatred.

Her next film PORTS OF DESTINY (1998) was screened on SBS TV in 1999.Shot in Argentina, it tells the story of a reunion after 60 years of separation, between the filmmakers father, then a 76 year old man living in Australia, and his aunt of 96, living in Buenos Aires. It is a film about aging and destiny.

PARRA (2000), a half hour documentary about the hybrid life of an enormous shopping centre in Western Sydney, and the young people who congregate there, was in collaboration with the Research Centre of Inter-communal Studies, UWS. Screened to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia, PARRA is used widely by the educational market and at international conferences.

Mitzi's most recent film CHINESE TAKE AWAY (2002) is a development of themes explored in all of her previous works, issues of personal history and cultural heritage. Adapted from the stage play, she explores cinematic language in a more dramatic way, without sacrificing documentary or theatrical roots. It tells the story of a Chinese Australian woman who charts the experiences of her grandmother and father from China, and her mother from Hong Kong, in a powerful story about loss and personal strength. CHINESE TAKE AWAY has been nominated for best music in the Australian Screen Composers Guild Awards. This film will be featured in her seminar 'Cross Cultural Filmmaking and New Forms of Documentary'

Mitzi Goldman is currently co-head of documentary at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.

She has been a board member of the Film and Television Institute in Western Australia, given classes and seminars at the UWS, Metro-screen and Sydney College of Fine Arts and has been an artist in residence as the University of Nebraska USA. She has sat on selection committees and judging panels of film festivals in Australia. Her films have been screened in many international festivals, sold to ABC (Australia) Channel 4 (UK) SBS (Australia) and all of her films are currently in distribution in Australia, the USA and Europe.