About
Belinda Lopez is a writer, documentary maker, journalist and anthropologist, whose work explores history and democracy, West Papuan and other First Nations stories, Hispanic and Latino cultures, feminism and women’s health.
Belinda’s documentaries and writing have also explored our relationship with nature, the internet and each other in this era we might call the digital age, or late-stage capitalism or even the polycrisis. Admittedly, there’s been some poetry too.
Belinda is a fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and holds a PhD based on anthropological and historical research with West Papuan communities in Indonesia.
Awards
Belinda’s writing, podcasts and documentary collaborations have been shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, the Australian Human Rights Awards, the Kennedys, the Walkley Awards and the Amnesty Media Awards. Belinda has won prizes from the New York Festivals, the United Nations, the Australian Writers’ Guild’s AWGIE awards for performance writing, the Gabriels, the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, the Best Australian Short Film Competition, the Multicultural Film Festival and more.
As an executive producer and editorial advisor, documentary productions Belinda has guided have been recognised by the Walkley Awards, the Australian Human Rights Awards, Amnesty International media awards, the New York Festivals, the Quill Journalism Awards and the NSW Premier’s History Awards, among several commendations.
Consultations and workshops
Belinda offers Story Doula sessions and workshops for people exploring the stories of their lives, for creative outputs and psychosocial wellbeing. She uses a non-diagnostic and non-clinical approach drawing on the modality of Narrative Practice.
Belinda teaches and facilitates writing, documentary, storytelling and narrative workshops and projects with universities, writers’ centres, schools, community groups and cultural and media organisations.
She consults on non-fiction, memoir, documentary and community projects.
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Profile photo by Ashley Zadel. Workshop photo by Matt Houston.