JMC graduate's film Mary meets Mohammad currently screening at 60 locations nationally.
JMC graduate Heather Kirkpatrick has independently produced and directed her first feature length documentary ‘Mary Meets Mohammad,’ where she intimately followed Mary and Mohammad for 16 months in Tasmania.
Heather Kirkpatrick is a professional outdoor instructor, emergency relief work logistician, freelance journalist and filmmaker. She has lead expeditions on every continent - climbing mountains and raft guiding in the world’s most remote wilderness regions. Heather has spent seven seasons teaching field survival skills in Antarctica and recently managed the helicopter logistics as food was delivered to flood victims in Pakistan.
Her worldwide travels inspired her to pursue short courses in filmmaking over the last decade and to study postgraduate Convergent Journalism. Heather has published stories in print media and produced an ABC radio documentary. She has travelled independently through the Democratic Republic of Congo filming stories of war-displaced people and in Rwanda following rap-artists who became orphans after the genocide.