Word for Word

13 May 2023

Laurence Billiet

Arts, Faith & Religion, History, LGBTI Community, News & Politics, Society & Culture

Lisa Daniel is joined on Word for Word by Laurence Billiet. Laurence is a writer, producer and director whose documentary Freeman was the most watched documentary of 2020.  

She has an extensive background in storytelling the world over and has worked for organisations such as Lonely Planet, Elite Models, National Geographic, Discovery Channel – to name just a few.
More recently she staged large-scale fashion and music events across China and Europe for which she experimented with giant screens video.
With her production company General Strike, Laurence combines her experience across narrative content and form to create new kinds of screen-based experiences.  

Her latest feature film, THE GIANTS details the extraordinary life of environmental folk hero and gay icon Bob Brown intertwined with the story of Australia’s giant trees. She is the recipient of the Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting at the 2021 NSW Premier Literary Awards. 

Laurence is married to wife Rachel and they are parents to a son. 

Word for Word is hosted by Lisa Daniel on JOY Media, produced by Ellen Spalding, and podcasted by Thomas Olejniczak.  This podcast originally aired on May 13th, 2023.

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