Rate My Professor Aurora Scheelings

Dr Aurora Scheelings is a Senior Lecturer in Screen Production at Griffith Film School within the Arts, Education and Law group at Griffith University. She currently holds the position of Program Director for the Master of Cinematic Arts, overseeing postgraduate education in cinematic arts. Scheelings earned her PhD in documentary film from Griffith Film School, with her thesis titled 'Taking tonal proof to the world stage: Developing a framework of creative and strategic choices'. With nearly two decades of teaching experience in screen production across various universities, she convenes courses including MoCA Studio 1 and 2, Cinematic Arts Academy, and Study Tour.

An award-winning documentary filmmaker, her productions have achieved national and international broadcast on ABC, SBS, RTE, and Al Jazeera. Her research focuses on social issues, cultural diversity, ethnography, and screen production practices. Scheelings has served as guest editor, with Margaret McVeigh, Joanne Tindale, and Joseph Grogan, for special issues of the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) Journal, including 'Creativity matters: poetics, pedagogy, production, policy' in 2022 and its continuation in 2023, featuring introductions that showcase research from conferences at Griffith Film School. She co-presented the paper 'Developing Students’ Screen Story Concepts through Haptic Visuality' with Priscilla Cameron at the 2024 ASPERA Conference, examining sensory approaches to early story development. Additionally, Scheelings has judged ATOM Awards categories such as Best Documentary – History in 2022, contributing to recognition of excellence in educational media.