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YOUR IMPACT

AMPLIFIED

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500+

Projects Completed

20

Years behind a camera

5★

Reviews across multiple industries.

On Time

Every time, for 20 years.

I'm a filmmaker who came up in the music industry,

mastering my craft in environments where

you have unlimited creative freedom

but only moments to make people stop and feel something.

Meet James

On a return to university, studying Art History, I fell in love with Baroque masters like Caravaggio and Bernini, which lead me to discover Neo Baroque Theory, and it changed the way I make films. The baroque masters new that creating a sense of immersion was the key to making a scene feel real. Spectacle grabs their attention and makes you open to suggestion, then the story can reach the heart.

It’s insights like these that draw me to education.

The power of one piece of information has the ability to permanently

change lives and unlock potential.

If you've got the insight, but need help reaching potential students

Let’s make sure it lands.

  • JMA
  • Grasp It
  • Yandamah
  • St Martins
  • In Symphony
  • MAV
  • Eclectica
  • Yarra Ranges Council
  • Boneo
  • Stage School Australia
  • Ruyton

Awards.

Featured at

CASE STUDIES

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CROWN &

COUNTRY

Completed over 5 years,

this project had the bold ambition to connect the

ideas and culture of Walpiri Elders from remote NT with urban city living Australians.

In their words

Testimonials from the Crown & Country audience
Crown and Country poster
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Major Project

Crown &
Country

  • 3 festivals across the country, touring Australia through 2025
  • Sold out every show, at every festival on the national tour
  • Buy-in and support from the local community

The voices

  • Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu Warlpiri philosopher, teacher and artist, from the remote central desert community of Lajamanu, NT.
  • Jerry Jangala Patrick OAM Wanta’s father, one of the most important Warlpiri songmen alive today, and a first contact elder — one of the few remaining in Australia.
  • Marc ‘Monkey’ Peckham Contemporary composition, woven through the traditional material.

The work

Crown and Country translates deep intergenerational cultural knowledge into immersive music and film, where Wanta Jampijinpa invites you into a desert journey through the Warlpiri universe.

  • Belonging
  • Connection
  • Responsibility to Country

Toured Australia, 2025

  1. Darwin Festival Sold out
  2. Mparntwe Alice Springs International Film Festival · Sold out
  3. Now or Never, Melbourne Capitol Theatre · Sold out

Outcomes

  • Made with the community’s Elders from the outset. Once it screened, the wider community came forward wanting to be part of the next edition.
  • Engaged urban Australians who had no prior connection to the work.
  • An invitation to embrace Indigenous culture as part of our shared identity.

Artist statement

Wanta Jampijinpa on Crown & Country

Click below for a radio interview with Wanta, Jerry and Monkey.

The film succeeded in both resonating with and inspiring the local community

as well as engaging urban Australians. The film acts as a

bridge between the Warlpiri people and broader urban Australia

Melbourne premiere

Sold out, Capitol Theatre, Melbourne

Audiences said

Upper Yarra Local Development Project

Major Project

Upper Yarra
Local Development Project

  • $500k from the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action to Yarra Ranges Council
  • 1 of 11 priority communities named across Victoria
  • 3 years initiative, launched mid‑2023

The background

Under the 2019 Victorian Forestry Plan, the Upper Yarra was named one of eleven priority communities across the state eligible for funding to develop a Local Development Strategy — covering Yarra Junction, Warburton and Powelltown.

  • Yarra Junction
  • Warburton
  • Powelltown

How it worked

  • Co-designed with RMIT University
  • A “Smart Specialisation” approach, building on the region’s existing strengths
  • Local Innovation Working Groups, developing job-creating projects

Outcomes

We condensed a large, complex project into a digestible format that was well received by the community.

  • Screened at the Warburton theatre as part of a community building event.
  • Improved community discourse on the project.
  • Gave those looking to promote or explain their group a touch point to work from.

The film

Upper Yarra Local Development Project

The Victorian Government brought forward

the end of native timber harvesting

from 2030 to January 2024, leaving Upper Yarra communities about eight months to prepare

for a transition they had expected to take seven years.

THE WORK

Community

and Government

Education

Your work changes lives.

Don’t risk them missing out.

Let’s tell the real story.

Let’s Work Together

email: hello@jamesgillot.com

P: +61 418 981 315