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Laurence Billiet 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, worked for organisations such as Lonely Planet, Elite Models, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, 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 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.
A documentary about Bob Brown and the forest he works to protect has filled cinemas as the conservationist and former politician continues his life's work.