About

Daz Chandler is a karaoke enthusiast with great hands who loves hyphenating words. Surprisingly, she is not yet a rock-star or, hand-model.  She is however extremely passionate about her              inter-disciplinary arts practice, as well as her work as a filmmaker, broadcaster & digital producer.

After studying film production, Daz started her career in advertising & public relations where she prepared fancy blurb & creative strategy for high-profile, international clients. After many sleepless nights & frankly, not enough of the good bits from ‘Mad Men’, she left the industry to focus on the community & public media sectors, where she worked in print, broadcast & online, & as an artist and workshop facilitator.

In late 2008, inspired by the democratisation of media & rise of independent journalism,  she established ‘Radio Lajee’, an English-language media project for young Palestinian refugees living in the occupied West Bank.

Daz is also on the board of the Sydney-based Refugee Art Project and her short film, ‘Unstill Lives’ documents RAP’s engagement with Australia’s refugee and asylum seeker community.

Recently, she’s been spending most of her time directing a feature-length documentary film called, ‘Amand(l)a’, which follows the life of a politically motivated young woman born the year of the so-called Oslo Peace Process, inside the occupied West Bank.

Daz’s main interest lies in work that challenges preconceived sociocultural & political notions & ideas, & creates instances of social engagement, or points of connection between unlikely parties.

Her work has been screened at international film festivals and shown at galleries in Australia, the US, Palestine and Turkey.

This blog has been set-up primarily as a space for friends and interested strangers to keep in touch with her while she’s  away ‘on da west side’.