About
Hi, my name’s Jane Malone and I’m the director of Raw Talkies. I like writing, producing and directing stories that bring a little more love into the world.
My debut feature film was the micro-budget dramady Birthday Adjustment Disorder. Selected into twenty international film festivals, it was a finalist in the Blow Up International Art House Film Festival Chicago, won the Post Modern Film Award at Virgin Spring Cinefest and was awarded the Debut Film Outstanding Achievement Award in the Cult Critics Movie Awards. It was also a finalist in the Auckland Film Festival and the SAE ATOMs, a Semi Finalist in Los Angeles Cinefest, and received Honourable Mentions in the Hollywood New Directors Film Festival and the LA Underground Film Forum.
In 2016 I was awarded a Create NSW TV Directors’ Attachment on the Nine/Essential/EasyTiger multi-award winning drama Doctor Doctor (USA The Heart Guy) with producers Ian Collie, Claudia Karvan and Tony McNamara. I also worked as Second Unit Director on a couple of eps.
My theatre work includes: The Naming, developed by Inscription; The Rumour, which was commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ National Literary Awards, shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Prize for Literature and won the Ensemble Theatre’s NSW Order of Australia Emerging Director’s Prize; The Wedding Trifle, which was awarded a Varuna Writers’ Fellowship; and Cohabitation which won the Deafness Forum of Australia’s Members’ Choice Award and a Medibank Australia Community Grant.
Back in the day I worked for ABC TV’s flagship documentary science program Quantum as a writer, producer and presenter and for ABC TV Comedy’s/Jigsaw’s O’Loghlin on Saturday Night as a writer and presenter.
Way back in the day I worked as a weekly sketch columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and hosted a segment on ABC Radio’s Triple J Breakfast with Adam Spencer and Wil Anderson. I also worked as an improviser with Theatresports Australia in their corporate, education and stage shows, and did Stand Up here and in New York, representing NSW in the national final of Australia’s Triple J Raw Comedy competition.