Rob HARDCASTLE

Dr Robert Hardcastle is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead for Film Production at the University of Canberra. His research is focussed on exploring the methodological contribution of filmmaking to a range of disciplines including sociology, environmental studies, and history.

Rob has a number of screen credits in cinema and broadcast and is interested in exploring ways of intervening in entrenched industrial filmmaking practices, to make them more inclusive and environmentally sustainable. Previous to filmmaking, he was an audio producer, recording and mixing in diverse environments, from jungles and forests to recording studios and concert halls around the world.

As an educator, Rob has taught at universities for over a decade, exploring the connection between theory and practice, considering film within a broad socio-cultural and historical context, and encouraging a pragmatic challenging of embedded and problematic cultures in industrial filmmaking practice.