Dr Kim Munro
Program Director: Film and Television
School of Architecture and Built Environment
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
Kim is a documentary researcher and practitioner with an interest in expanded forms, experimental film, archives, and questions of place. Her most recent project, The Art of Work is a Work of Art (2023-2025) is a live audio performance which explores the history of the experimental theatre Vitalstatistix in Port Adelaide. She is currently working with Open Space Contemporary Arts (OSCA) Projects of the Everyday on a series of site-bsaed works called on-site.
Kim’s work has screened on the ABC as well as at local and international galleries and festivals. Kim has also written on a range of documentary styles, genres and forms, which have been published in books and journals, as well as The Conversation and Metro Magazine. She is co-editor of Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory. Kim was the conference programmer for the 2020 and 2021 Australian International Documentary Conferences (AIDC), Australia's premiere event for nonfiction content. Over the past 15 years, Kim has taught a variety of documentary and media courses at RMIT, Swinburne and Deakin Universities in Melbourne. She has also organised documentary events and symposia and run filmmaking workshops around climate change with UN Habitat. In 2023, Kim founded the Documentary Film Society which is dedicated to screening and conversations around experimental nonfiction and documentary films. Curating and programming collaborations include Encounters and Crossovers with Samstag Museum of Art (2024) and Queer Visions with Adelaide Queer film Festival (2025).
Kim is an elected member of the Governing Council of Visible Evidence, a collection of scholars and practitioners engaged in research and debates on historical and contemporary documentary practice and nonfiction media culture, the Radical Film Network Steering Group, and the editorial boards of Media Practice Education and the International Journal of Creative Media Research.
See more of her work here: www.kimmunro.com
| Date | Position | Institution name |
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| 2019 - 2021 | Conference Programmer | Australian International Documentary Conference |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
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| 2025 | Nomination | Ruby Awards - Outstanding Work or Event Within a Festival | Create SA | Australia | - |
| 2025 | Teaching Award | UniSA Unstoppable Awards - Enterprise Partnership Award | University of South Australia | Australia | - |
| 2025 | Distinction | Innovation in Creative Arts Award: Highly commended | Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts | Australia | - |
| 2025 | Teaching Award | Creative Innovation in Teaching Award | University of South Australia | Australia | - |
| 2024 | Teaching Award | UniSA Unstoppable Awards - Enhanced Learning | University of South Australia | Australia | - |
| 2024 | Teaching Award | Creative Innovation in Teaching Award | University of South Australia | Australia | - |
| 2020 | Award | RMIT Media Star Award for Top Performer | RMIT University | Australia | - |
| 2019 | Research Award | RMIT Prize for Research Excellence - HDR (Design) | RMIT University | Australia | - |
| 2018 | Teaching Award | RMIT Dean's Award for Exemplary Sessional Teacher | RMIT University | Australia | - |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 - 2019 | RMIT University | Australia | PhD |
| 2011 - 2014 | La Trobe University | Australia | Master of Arts (Research) |
| 2008 - 2008 | University of Melbourne | Australia | Graduate Diploma of Film & Television |
| 2004 - 2007 | Monash University | Australia | Master of Applied Linguistics |
| 1998 - 2000 | University of Melbourne | Australia | Bachelor of Fine Art |
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Southern Yorke Peninsula Expanded Storytelling Moving Mural Trail Project, Warooka Progress Association, 23/11/2023 - 24/08/2025
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Experimental Documentary Screening Program, Adelaide City Council, 05/01/2024 - 30/11/2024
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The Art of Work is a Work of Art, Arts SA, 26/04/2023 - 27/10/2023
| Date | Role | Committee | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - ongoing | Member | Visible Evidence | Visible Evidence | - |
| 2024 - ongoing | Member | Radical Film Network Steering Group | Radical Film Network | - |
| 2023 - 2025 | Member | ASPERA Research Sub-committee | Australian Screen Production and Education Research Association | Australia |
| Date | Title | Engagement Type | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 - ongoing | Founder - Documentary Film Society | - | Documentary Film Society | Australia |
| Date | Role | Editorial Board Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - ongoing | Board Member | International Journal of Creative Media Research | International Journal of Creative Media Research | - |
| 2022 - ongoing | Board Member | Journal of Media Practice | Journal of Media Practice | - |
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